Route Driver (Transportation)

General Purpose:

The Route Driver is responsible for timely, accurate, and safe transport of PrairieLand Partners (PLP) products, parts, and paperwork between PLP and customer locations. The Route Driver reports to the Transportation Manager.

Essential Functions:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Transports equipment to and from customers and/or between dealer facilities.
• Supports PLP and customer locations with product delivery as needed.
• Maintains records of pickups and deliveries and obtains necessary signatures and receipts for pickups and deliveries.
• Complies with Department of Transportation (DOT), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and PLP policies.
• Accounts for all time and distance traveled while performing assigned PLP duties.
• Maintains assigned PLP vehicle and related PLP equipment in good working condition.
• Performs daily DOT inspections on PLP vehicles and trailers.
• Ensures all items sent on route arrive at the destination intact.
• Performs other duties as required and necessary to ensure the success of PrairieLand Partners.

Supervisory Duties:

• None.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to consistently promote, support, work, and act in a manner in support of PrairieLand Partners vision, mission, and values.
• Ability to keep route delivery items organized and ensure they arrive in good condition.
• Ability to work effectively with staff at all PLP and customer locations to ensure items are transferred in a timely manner.
• Knowledge of DOT driving regulations and area roads.
• Ability to perform minor roadside repairs, such as installing light bulbs.
• Ability to always represent PLP professionally and to meet or exceed customer expectations.

Education:

• High School Diploma or General Education Diploma (GED) equivalent is required.

Experience:

• Two years of commercial driving experience, driving for an auto parts business, or driving for a dealership is preferred.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted on a year for year basis.

Additional Requirements/Licenses/Certifications:

• Must have reliable transportation.
• Must have a valid drivers license.
• Commercial Drivers License is required.
• Must have proof of ability to meet DOT physical requirements.
• Passing a driving record (MVR), criminal history background checks, employment verification, and drug screen will be required prior to the start of employment.
• Passing a Drug Screen is required at random request and in the event of a qualified traffic incident as required by PLP or to comply with DOT requirements.

Working Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Occasional outdoor work in extreme weather conditions (hot/cold); walking on uneven terrain; occasional exposure to insects.
• Work may be performed in a standard laboratory, field, or an office environment during all types of temperatures, weather conditions and all times of day or night while being exposed to excessive noise from machines. Snowy, wet, and muddy conditions will exist. Work may be done in confined or cramped spaces.
• Regular and long-term exposure to work areas containing toxic/caustic/hazardous/volatile chemicals; extreme conditions such as hot/cold; sharp hazards; dust/fumes/gasses; electrical shock; moving mechanical parts; high pitched and/or constant loud noise; sometimes long-term contact with bacteria and odorous, infectious/obnoxious material.
• Work may involve assisting with sampling, calibration of equipment and process instruments calibration / maintenance often in difficult areas.
• Ability to use gas monitoring equipment, safety tripod and harness and any other required safety equipment for entering both high and low hazard confined spaces for either plant.
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) required including cold weather gear, eye protection, gloves, and provided uniform.
• A clean and safety-conscientious environment required while employed.
• Work may involve long hours and overtime during holidays, weekends, and evenings.
• May be required to rotate on-call responsibilities.
• Must reside within 30 minutes of facility to be included with on-call rotation.

Physical Activities:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to stand, sit, walk, walk on unpaved terrain, talk, reach with arms and hands, have good manual dexterity, use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard, handle or feel, hear alarms/telephones/normal speaking voice.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
• May involve climbing ladders, stairs, steps, and traversing catwalk grating, pushing, pulling, bending, stooping, and kneeling on a frequent basis and working in confined space and manual dexterity required to complete work tasks through safe and proper operation of power and hand tools, and motor vehicles.
• Ability to sit for sustained periods of time while operating a motor vehicle.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.
• Strenuous physical work involving heavy lifting, pushing, or pulling of objects up to 50 pounds frequently and 75 pounds occasionally.
• Moving, positioning, and carrying loads of up to 15 pounds upstairs and loading on four-foot-high surfaces frequently.
• Ability to withstand extreme hot and cold temperatures.
• While performing the duties of the job, the employee may be exposed to fumes such as vehicle exhaust.
• While performing the duties of the job, the employee is regularly exposed to moderate noise such as the sounds of vehicle motors.