About this role
JOB
DUTIES
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· Responsible for handling
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materials, including loading them in accordance with established safety protocols, taking into
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consideration the weight and tonnage of vehicle
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· Follow all safety
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precautions in the operation of his vehicle.
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· Ensure that all traffic
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regulations are complied with.
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· Wear the necessary safety
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gear when loading and offloading trucks, and while on construction site and
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also ensure that the assigned porter complies with these safety operations.
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· Deliver all goods
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promptly and ensure that all relevant documents are signed upon delivery of
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goods.
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· The driver becomes the
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supervisor when the truck is on the road, he is in command and is solely
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responsible for his attendant/porter, and must ensure that the attendant
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carries out his duties in an efficient and professional manner.
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· Comply with the daily
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check list, and ensure that the vehicles are clean and in good mechanical order
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before leaving the yard at mornings.
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· Immediately report any
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accidents or difficulties they might be encountering while on the road.
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Work Environment
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· While performing the duties of
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this job, the employee may be regularly required to sit, stand, bend, reach
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climb and move about the entire facility.
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· Candidates should be able to adapt
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to a traditional warehouse & Lumber Yard environment.
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· Work outdoors most of the time while loading and
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unloading trucks
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· Must be able to life and move
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loads of varying weights
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· Frequent exposure to Lumber Yard
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elements such as noise, dust, fumes, odors.
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· Safety glasses or ventilation mask
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may be required while performing a specific task.
Requirements
- · Must possess the license
- required to operate and drive the assigned vehicle.
- · Must have at least one
- year experience in driving that type of vehicle.
- · Must be polite and
- provide customers with good customer service when making deliveries.
- · All drivers must be
- knowledgeable about products and must be able to read and understand documents
- given to them.
- · Driver should have full
- knowledge and operation of his vehicle, including basic mechanics of his
- vehicle.