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Delivery truck driver

  • Work Term: Permanent
  • Work Language: English
  • Hours: 35 to 45 hours per week
  • Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
  • Experience: Experience an asset

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
  • Accept payment or invoices for items delivered
  • Receive and relay information to central dispatch
  • Assemble, install and set-up merchandise/products
  • Keep a record of items received and delivered
  • Prepare, package and restock goods
  • Load and unload goods
  • Sort packages for delivery
  • Follow directions and read map
  • Use maps and other trip planning aids
  • Record trip information such as vehicle mileage, fuel costs and any problems
  • Perform administrative tasks
  • Pay and receive payments for goods
  • Provide customer service
  • Perform pre-trip, en route and post-trip inspection and oversee all aspects of vehicle

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

  • Class 5/5F/G Licence (cars, small trucks and other 2-axle vehicles)

Transportation/travel experience

  • Local
  • Regional

Security and safety

  • Criminal record check

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Attention to detail
  • Fast-paced environment
  • Tight deadlines
  • Work under pressure
  • Physically demanding
  • Handling heavy loads

Weight handling

  • Up to 45 kg (100 lbs)

Own tools/equipment

  • Steel-toed safety boots
  • Cellular phone
  • Uniform

Personal suitability

  • Client focus
  • Flexibility
  • Organized
  • Reliability
  • Team player
  • Accurate
  • Dependability
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Punctuality

Health benefits

  • Dental plan
  • Health care plan
  • Vision care benefits