← Back
Delivery driver
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 35 to 40 hours per week
- Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience: 1 to less than 7 months
- or equivalent experience
Work site environment
- Outdoors
- Cold/refrigerated
- Hot
- Wet/damp
- Noisy
- Dusty
Work setting
- Courier company
- Urban area
- Various locations
- Warehouse
- Moving and storage company
Tasks
- Deliver and pick up messages, parcels, and other items by hand
- Operate and drive automobiles, vans and light trucks to pick up and deliver various items and products
- Professionalism in customer service
- Assemble, install and set-up merchandise/products
- Keep a record of items received and delivered
- Deliver newspapers, flyers to residences and businesses
- Transport and handle dangerous goods
- Load and unload goods
- Follow directions and read map
- Use maps and other trip planning aids
- Record trip information such as vehicle mileage, fuel costs and any problems
- Provide customer service
- Perform pre-trip, en route and post-trip inspection and oversee all aspects of vehicle
- Wrap goods
- Transport and distribute materials and goods
- Store cargo and materials
- Operate a variety of equipment to load, unload and move materials and products
- Load, unload and move products and materials by hand or with basic material handling equipment
- Make labels and attach to goods
- Pack and unpack goods
- Organize and maintain inventory
- Sort, crate and stack goods
- Install, lash and secure goods
Equipment and machinery experience
- Dollies and hand trucks
Transportation/travel experience
- Provincial/territorial
Specialization or experience
- Specialized environmental skills and knowledge
Transportation/travel information
- Own transportation
- Own vehicle
- Valid driver's licence
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Attention to detail
- Fast-paced environment
- Tight deadlines
- Work under pressure
- Physically demanding
- Handling heavy loads
- Repetitive tasks
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Large workload
Weight handling
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
- Up to 45 kg (100 lbs)
- More than 45 kg (100 lbs)
Own tools/equipment
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Cellular phone
- Gloves
Personal suitability
- Reliability
- Team player
- Dependability
- Excellent oral communication
- Adaptability
- Collaborative
- Analytical
- Creativity
- Efficiency
- Energetic
- Goal-oriented
- Hardworking
- Integrity
- Outgoing
- Positive attitude
- Proactive
- Quick learner
- Time management
Screening questions
- Are you available for shift or on-call work?
- Do you have experience working in this field?
Employment terms options
- Early morning
- Evening
- Morning
- On call
- Day
- Weekend
- Overtime available
Workplace information
- On the road job