Truck Driver

**About Blendtek**

Blendtek is a privately held company with a mission to challenge expectations in the food industry. As a trusted source for innovators across food, bakery, beverage, prepared foods, and sports nutrition categories, we collaborate with our customers from concept development and formulation to manufacturing and packaging—bringing their ideas to life.

**Position Summary**

Truck Drivers will operate a tractor-trailer combination or a truck with a capacity of at least 26,000 GVW, to transport and deliver goods or materials in liquid, loose, or packaged form. May be required to load and unload truck. Drivers may be required to use automated routing equipment. Truck Drivers require commercial drivers' license.

**Essential Functions**
- Perform trip inspections on equipment operated and load, ensuring safety and roadworthiness
- Comply with applicable legislation including safe operation, carriage of goods, driver's hours of service, occupational health and safety, transportation of dangerous goods, customs and immigration and weights and dimensions
- Maneuver trucks into loading or unloading positions, following signals from loading crew as needed; check that vehicle position is correct and any special loading equipment is properly positioned.
- Check vehicles before driving them to ensure that mechanical, safety, and emergency equipment is in good working order.
- Report vehicle defects, accidents, traffic violations, or damage to the vehicles.
- Check all load-related documentation to ensure that it is complete and accurate.
- Operate equipment such as truck cab computers, CB radios, and telephones to exchange necessary information with bases, supervisors, or other drivers.
- Maintain logs of working hours and of vehicle service and repair status, following applicable state and federal regulations.
- Record and maintain required documentation including driver logbook, bills of lading, etc. by manual or electronic means
- Communicate effectively with the public, customers, and co-workers both verbally and in written form
- Assist in loading and unloading of trucks
- Perform periodic inspections before, during, and after delivery to ensure that load is properly fastened down and is secure
- Ensure that material is properly protected from the outdoor elements
- Deliver to product and proper paperwork to our customers in a courteous and timely manner
- Ensure that any debris caused by the loading/unloading of truck is cleaned up
- Provide feedback to supervision regarding customer problems, mechanical problems, or delivery problems
- Maintain trucks overall service and perform required inspections
- Complete all necessary paperwork at the end of the shift. May include, but not limited to, daily logs, inspection logs, delivery receipts, vehicle inspection, hours of service, etc.
- Train others when required
- Provide back up for other drivers, when required

**Education Requirement**
- High School Diploma, GED or equivalent
- Certification from recognized Truck Driving School

**Required Skills and Knowledge**
- Class 1 driver's license
- Air brake endorsement (Z)
- Defensive Driving Course
- Computer Literate
- Strong mechanical aptitude with ability to perform routine vehicle maintenance
- Demonstrated organizational skills with strong oral and written communication abilities
- Exceptional organizational abilities with task prioritization, multi-tasking, use of timelines and time management techniques
- High level of personal integrity
- Strong work ethic
- Professional/mature demeanor under stressful situations
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Confident, consistent decisive personality
- Must be able to work with little supervision; must be self-directed.

**Working Conditions**
- Climate-controlled warehouse environment
- Climate-controlled vehicle

**Job Type**
- Permanent, Full-time

**Salary**
- $25 - $27 per hour

**Benefits**
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- Vision care
- Monthly company events
- On-site parking
- Employee recognition program
- State of the art on-site gym
- Employee training program and education/certification reimbursement programs

**Ability to Commute/Relocate**
- Reliable transportation to commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Schedule**
- 8-hour shift
- 40 hours per week

**Accessibility Statement**

We are committed to employment equity and encourage all people, including women, visible minorities, persons with disabilities and persons of aboriginal descent to apply. Upon your request, we provide accommodation for disabilities during the recruitment and selection process. If you request accommodation, HR will reach out to consult with you so that we can tailor our arrangements to suit your needs. In addition, all new employees are advised of our policies for accommodating employees with disabilities.

**Salary**: $25.00-$27.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Dental care
- Paid time off
- Vision care

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