Job Title: Route Driver
Immediate Supervisor: Director of Transportation
Summary: The Delivery Driver is responsible for transporting products to customers while strictly adhering to all quality and food safety standards. This role is a key part of the shipping and receiving operations at Prairie Farms Inc. – Shullsburg Creamery. The position involves collaboration with the warehouse team for efficient load management, as well as coordination with dispatchers regarding delivery assignments. The Delivery Driver must be able to work independently and as part of a team to proactively support shared business objectives. This over-the-road truck driving position encompasses designated and predetermined routes and stops in between delivering product to additional warehouse and distribution points throughout the area.
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While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to sit, stand or walk for prolonged periods of time. The employee is required to use hands and fingers to operate, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls and reach with hands and arms on a repetitive basis. The employee must be able to push, pull, and move up to 100 pounds. The employee must be able to physically lift up to 50 pounds. Requires visual acuity to review written documentations; ability to hear and understand speech. There is sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above the ambient noise level. There is exposure to a variety of physical conditions such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical current, and exposure to heat/cold temperature changes.
Prairie Farms is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.