Transport Driver
JOB SUMMARY: Drives
truck in transporting product from plant to depot.
This position has direct and indirect responsibility
to ensure that all work activities under its span of control are performed with
attention to the highest standards of food quality, safe processes, compliance
with all appropriate legal requirements and a focus on continuous process
improvement.
ESSENTIAL
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Driving
truck over established route to deliver product
2. Records
delivery information on daily log book
3. Unloading
full racks of product and reloading empty racks into truck
4. Daily
inspection of equipment to keep in compliance of DOT regulations
JOB
SPECIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Prefer high school diploma or equivalent. Requires a CDL. Additional post-secondary education is
preferred (ie: Technical of Vocational education) in
areas of material handling, warehouse, shipping, packaging, etc.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, a Transport
Driver (DOT# 292.353-010) is a semi-skilled position with at least 2 years
experience preferred. The general educational development requirements include
the following:
Reasoning Skills- Apply common sense understanding, to
carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions; deal with
problems involving a few concrete variables in or from standardized situations.
Mathematical Skills- Add, subtract, multiply, and
divide all units of measure; perform the four operations with like common and
decimal fractions; compute ratio, rate, and percent; draw and interpret bar
graphs, perform arithmetic operations involving all American monetary units.
Transport
Driver
Position
Description
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Language Skills- Read a variety of novels, magazines,
atlases, and encyclopedias. Read safety rules, instructions in the use and
maintenance of shop tools and equipment, and methods and procedures in
mechanical drawing and layout work.
Previous work experience in a manufacturing warehouse
and/or shipping environment is preferred.
Prefer previous safety training.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
Ability to sit (85%)
and walk (15%) for 8 hours.
Ability to lift approximately up to a maximum of 100 pounds approximately 10
times per day from floor to waist. Ability to reach overhead
10 times per day and to ground 10 times per day. Climbing
stairs and ladders 4 times per day. Using repetitive
motions, using the hands/arms approximately 75 times per day. Also uses
the back (twisting) 10 times per day. Ability to push/pull
unloading ramps and unloading racks weighing from 100 lbs. to 450 lbs. using
upper body approximately 50 times a day and whole body 50 times a day.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, Transport Driver,
is considered a heavy physical demand level job, defined as occasional exerting
force of 5-100 pounds, frequently 25-50, and constantly 10-20 pounds.
OTHER ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS NOT LISTED
ABOVE INCLUDE
Reading, writing,
seeing, hearing, communicating, driving, adding, subtracting, using the
telephone, and understanding instructions. Ability to tolerate temperature extremes 6 hours of
the day. To be in unprotected heights, approximately 50 times a day. The
U.S. Department of Labor also reports near and far acuity, depth perception and
color vision are other physical demands.
MACHINES/TOOLS USED
Tractor-trailer, unloading ramps, cake
racks, pen, hydraulic lifts, tire chains, load bars, and log book.
Qualified applicants may submit their
current resume, current salary history and cover letter to:
Angie Heins, Assistant HR Manager,
via email
to angie.heins@hostessbrands.com, or by
fax to
620-342-7327.
