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Local Delivery Driver - Hourly

American Furniture Warehouse Co
Full-time
On-site
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Description

 As a Delivery Driver (Non CDL) /Warehouse Associate, you will be responsible for delivering, assembling, disassembling, and removing merchandise from our customers’ homes. The Delivery Driver (Non CDL) /Warehouse Associate will also demonstrate how to use merchandise and explain AFW policies and procedures to our customers. This individual will also pick and pull merchandise, load and unload merchandise to and from other AFW facilities, load out customers in a safe and efficient manner, and any other task as asked by the AFW management team. This is a full-time position with a starting rate of $21.00/hour plus great benefits!

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  • Assemble/disassemble merchandise correctly and efficiently using a variety of tools while sustaining a high level of quality assurance and attention to detail in the customer’s home.
  • Able to identify and read invoices and UPC labels to ensure invoices are complete. 
  • Inspect and inventory all merchandise prior to delivery load out.
  • Efficiently and safely load and unload merchandise 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.
  • Maintain a clean safe work environment including but not limited to truck cabs and straight box trucks.
  • Must be willing to chain up during severe weather.
  • Must function and interact on a routine basis with Customer Service and the AFW management team.
  • Initiative to work in a physically demanding, fast pace environment for an extended period of time.
  • Able to communicate effectively with team members, supervisors, and customers.
  • Time management and organizational skills.
  • Coordinate and work effectively with multiple departments to continuously improve processes, maximize efficiency and exceed customer service expectations.
  • Ability to efficiently work independent of direct supervision.
  • Professional appearance.
  • All training provided by AFW

Minimum Qualifications

  • Clean Motor Vehicle Record with 2 or less moving violations with in the past 3 years
  • Obtain and maintain a D.O.T Physical card.
  • Able to perform vehicle pre-trips up to FMCSA standards.
  • Assembly/Delivery experience preferred.
  • Must own your own hand tools.
  • Knowledge of and the ability to perform the correct lifting/team lifting techniques.
  • Experience using hand tools.
  • Ability to safely operate a company approved safety knife.
  • Knowledge of team lifting and the ability to perform it.
  • Must be able to learn, understand, and apply new technologies, including Dispatch Track and ipads. 

 

Physical Requirements

Demand                                         % of time in   shift

 

Standing                                                  81 – 100 %

Push over 51 lbs.                                     81 – 100 %

Lifting 1 – 25 lbs.                                    21 – 40 %                                                             

Sitting                                                          1- 20 %

Lifting 26 – 50 lbs.                                  61 – 80 %

Hearing                                                   81 – 100 %

Lifting over 51 lbs.                                  81 – 100 %

Reading                                                  81 – 100 %

Bending from waist down                      81 – 100 %

Stooping                                                  1 – 20 %

Climbing stairs / ladders                        1 – 20 %

Carrying 1 – 25 lbs.                                  21 – 40 %

Carrying 26 – 50 lbs.                                41 – 60 %

Carrying over 51 lbs.                               81 – 100 % 

Reaching above shoulders                     61 – 80 %

Reaching straight out                              61 – 80 %

Twisting                                                    81 – 100 %

Walking                                                     81 - 100 %

Use of hands                                            81 – 100 %

Bending of wrists                                    81 – 100 %

Twisting of wrists                                    81 – 100 %

Squeezing motion of hands                   81 – 100 %

Pull 0 – 25 lbs.                                         41 – 60 %

Pull 26 – 50 lbs.                                       61 – 80 %

Pull over 51 lbs.                                       81 – 100 %

Push 0 – 25 lbs.                                       41 – 60 %

Push 26 – 50 lbs.                                     61 – 80 %

 

Demand

% of time in shift

Standing

61 – 80 %

Sitting

21- 40 %

Lifting 1 – 25 lbs.

1-20 %

Hearing

81 – 100 %

Lifting 26 – 50 lbs.

41-60 %

Reading

81 – 100 %

Lifting over 51 lbs.

41-60 %

Bending from waist down

1-20 %

Stooping

1 – 20 %

Climbing stairs / ladders

1 – 20 %

Carrying 1 – 25 lbs.

1-20 %

Carrying 26 – 50 lbs.

61 – 80 %

Carrying over 51 lbs.

41-60 %

Reaching above shoulders

1-20 %

Reaching straight out

21-40 %

Twisting

41-60 %

Walking

81 - 100 %

Use of hands

81 – 100 %

Bending of wrists

41-60 %

Twisting of wrists

41-60 %

Squeezing motion of hands

61-80 %

Pull 0 – 25 lbs.

1-20 %

Pull 26 – 50 lbs.

41 – 60 %

Pull over 51 lbs

41 – 60 %

Push 0 – 25 lbs.

41 – 60 %

Push 26 – 50 lbs.

1-20 %

Push over 51 lbs.

41 – 60 %

 

Additional 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.
  • Requires lift, lower, push and pull all sizes of merchandise up to 100 lbs. frequently and ability to handle/manipulate up to 250 lbs. frequently.
  • The Delivery Driver (Non CDL) /Warehouse Associate position requires lifting, griping, bending, kneeling, stooping and moving merchandise 10 hours or more daily.

Physical Environment

  • Fluorescent Lighting
  • Concrete Flooring
  • Climate affected by outside conditions including extreme heat/cold internally and externally.
  • Considerable exterior/interior noise

 

A pre-employment drug screen and 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.