Delivery Driver

Job Description

If you like delivering joy, consider a career at American Furniture Warehouse.

American Furniture Warehouse has been delivering smiles for over 40 years. We are looking for hard-working, highly motivated delivery drivers & delivery helpers to continue our tradition of great prices and amazing service. AFW drivers will meet new people every day giving the best customer experience by delivering, assembling, disassembling, and removing merchandise from our customers' homes. Our drivers provide a white glove service demonstrating how to use merchandise and explaining our policies and procedures. This is a demanding and rewarding position!

First year drivers average $25.59-36.65 per hour! We pay every Friday.

70 hours of sick pay annually 40-80 hours of vacation annually 2 personal days each year The company provided training & leadership development tracks for promotion opportunities. Gym facilities in most work locations Excellent benefits

Job Requirements:

• Delivery drivers must be honest and caring. You are ambassadors of the brand!
• Clean Motor Vehicle Record with 2 or fewer moving violations within the past 3 years.
• Obtain and maintain a D.O.T. physical card. (We pay for this)
• Must own your own hand tools. (We help with that, too)
• Work closely with a partner to perform deliveries.
• Must be able to learn, understand, and apply new technologies, including Dispatch Track and iPad.

More about the job:

• Drivers work 5-6 days a week. It is often 6 days during busy seasons. We start early. Get in. Get out.
• Make customers happy. Go home.
• Assemble/disassemble furniture correctly and efficiently using a variety of tools.
• Efficiently and safely load and unload furniture to and from a delivery truck.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to explain merchandise and policies to customers.
• Ability to team lift merchandise off and on a box truck and in and out of a customer's home.
• Work safely.
• Work in a physically demanding, fast-paced environment for an extended period.
• Able to communicate effectively with team members, supervisors, and customers.
• Be able to work independently with little supervision.
• Partner with multiple departments to continuously improve processes, maximize efficiency, and exceed customer service expectations.

Physical Requirements:

• Requires the ability to maneuver in confined and at times congested areas, not limited to but including stairways, hallways, and elevators.
• Requires the ability to stand, walk, stoop, & bend for 10 hours or more daily.
• Requires constant use of arms, hands, fingers, eyes, legs, and back.
• It requires lifting, lowering, pushing, and pulling all merchandise sizes up to 100 lbs frequently and the ability to handle/manipulate up to 250 lbs. frequently.
• The Delivery Driver position requires lifting, gripping, bending, kneeling, stooping and moving merchandise 10 hours or more daily.

A pre-employment drug screen and pre-employment background check must be passed upon the job offer. American Furniture Warehouse provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.