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Courier driver

  • Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
  • Experience: Experience an asset

Work setting

  • Courier 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
  • Receive and relay information to central dispatch
  • Keep a record of items received and delivered
  • Transport and handle dangerous goods
  • Load and unload goods
  • Record trip information such as vehicle mileage, fuel costs and any problems
  • Provide customer service

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Attention to detail
  • Fast-paced environment
  • Tight deadlines
  • Work under pressure

Personal suitability

  • Client focus
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Flexibility
  • Judgement
  • Organized
  • Reliability
  • Team player
  • Accurate
  • Dependability
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Initiative
  • Punctuality

Screening questions

  • Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?
  • Do you have experience working in this field?
  • Do you meet the language requirements listed in the job posting for the position (English or French)?

Workplace information

  • On the road job
  • Work Term: Permanent
  • Work Language: English
  • Hours: 45 hours per week