Job description
Charlie’s Produce is a privately owned wholesale produce company. We are the largest privately owned produce wholesaler on the West Coast, with distribution centers in Seattle, Spokane, Portland, Anchorage, Los Angeles, Boise and Salt Lake City. The secret to our 40+ years of success in this industry is PEOPLE! We strive to hire the best and we reward them with a working environment that fosters loyalty, stability, innovation, and growth.
Complete Benefits Package Includes:
- Medical Plans with UHC and HSA/FSA available
- Vision with hardware replacement yearly!
- Dental
- 401K
- ESOP-Employee Stock Ownership Plan
- Holiday Pay and Sick Pay after 90 Days!
- College Tuition for all employees and their dependents
- On the job training
- Year round full time employment
- Employee appreciation events
- Vacation Time!
Position Summary: We are looking to hire a highly efficient driver helper to assist company drivers with all deliveries. The driver helper’s responsibilities include loading and unloading products by hand or by use of hand trucks, completing necessary paperwork accurately, and ensuring that the delivery vehicle is clean and organized. You should also be able to build and maintain solid inter-departmental relationships to ensure effective communication. When necessary, a driver helper will assist the warehouse department with shipping, receiving and any other required tasks.
Driver Helper Responsibilities:
- Loading and unloading company products
- Completing accurate delivery records and reports
- Reporting all delivery-related problems to senior staff
- Effectively communicating with clients and customers
- Assisting with the unloading of the delivery vehicle at the end of each shift.
- Obtaining clients’ and customers’ signatures as an acknowledgment of having received the delivered products.
- Ensuring that all safety policies and procedures are adhered to.
- Performs other duties as assigned, may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed
Peripheral Duties: Tasks and special projects as assigned by Transportation Supervisor
Desired Minimum Qualifications:
- Ability to lift, push, and pull up to 75 lbs frequently
- Ability to work in a refrigerated warehouse environment for up to 8 hours per shift
- Ability to work as a team member-works as a co-worker
- Communicator- Ability to communicate effectively and efficiently
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to follow written or verbal instructions
- Ability to solve routine problems and solve basic math
- Ability to understand and follow all safety rules, procedure manuals, and diagrams
- Warehouse experience helpful but not necessary
- Riding pallet Jack experience preferred, not required
This employer participates in E-Verify and will provide the Social Security Administration and if necessary the Department of Homeland Security with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. Charlie's Produce is an Equal Opportunity Employer!
As an essential employer and key contributor to our community’s food distribution chain, we will follow all state and federal guidelines on vaccination mandates, allowing for an accommodation for those that qualify.