CDL Drivers

Position Description 

Great Job! Great Benefits! Family Friendly work environment! Help your neighbors who are struggling! If this sounds like something you want, this job is for you!  

Roadrunner Food Bank is seeking a Class A CDL driver, who is an excellent driver with a proven record in quality customer service. This is a perfect position to put your skills to use, and help in our quest to end hunger in the state of New Mexico. If you want to know you are helping hungry families get nutritious food, see beautiful New Mexico, be home most every night, have stable work, great benefits, and make a difference, this is the job for you!  

Excellent benefits - medical, dental, vision, 403b, generous time off and holidays. 

We will only consider resumes that show details about your work experience, not just employer and dates. We are also willing to train new drivers. 

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Delivers needed food to organizations and schools who help hungry people throughout the state of New Mexico 
• Pickups and deliveries of food products 
• Maintains DOT mandated paperwork using an electronic logging device (ELD) 
• Reads and understands schedules, customer orders, work orders, and shipping orders to determine appointments and inventory to be moved, picked up, or distributed 
• Sorts and stores perishable goods in the proper refrigerated spaces 
• Ensures that all stock and inventory items are maintained in compliance with Food Bank guidelines and all applicable local, state, or federal laws or regulations 
• Observes all local, state, and federal regulations regarding vehicle transport and Department of Transportation rules 
• Completes forms, reports, and logs as required 
• Provides excellent customer service to partner agencies, donors, and the public 
• Drives forklifts and operates other pallet moving equipment safely 
• Able to work independently 
• Observes safety and security procedures and reports potentially unsafe conditions 
• Is consistently at work and on time 
• Displays a passion and optimism for the work, provides vision and inspiration to peers, and exemplifies RRFB core values. 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: 

• Valid Class A CDL driver’s license  
• Proven experience interacting with customers in a positive way. 
• Requirement of lifting up to 100 pounds 
• Required to pull in excess of 1000 lbs with a pallet jack (mostly electric pallet jacks) 
• Ability to read and interpret information such as traffic signs, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals 
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence 
• Ability to speak effectively with customers, always treating others with respect and consideration 
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals 
• Sound and accurate judgment, and can make timely decisions. 

Physical Requirements: 

• Very Heavy work - Ability to exert in excess of 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or in excess of 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects. 

Physical Activity: 

• Climbing - Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized. 
• Balancing - Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling and walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery or erratically moving surfaces. 
• Stooping - Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. Requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles. 
• Kneeling - Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees. 
• Crouching - Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine. 
• Crawling - Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet. 
• Reaching - Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction. 
• Standing - For sustained periods of time. 
• Walking - Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another. 
• Pushing - Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward. 
• Pulling - Using upper extremities to exert force to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion. 
• Fingering - Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling. 
• Grasping - Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm. 
• Feeling - Perceiving attributes of objects such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly fingertips. 
• Talking - Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word, conveying detailed or important spoken instructions to others accurately, loudly or quickly. 
• Hearing - Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make discriminations in sound. 
• Repetitive Motion - Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hand, and/or fingers. 

Visual Acuity: 

• Requirements include the close visual acuity to perform an activity such as viewing a computer terminal and visual inspection of the operation of machines and/or using measurement devices at distances close to the eyes. 
• Required to have visual acuity to perform an activity such as operating machines where the seeing job is at or within arm’s reach; performs mechanical or skilled trade tasks of a non-repetitive nature such as carpenter, technician, plumber, painter, mechanics as may be needed to help maintain the warehouse facility. 
• Required to have visual acuity to operate motor vehicles and/or heavy equipment. 
• Required to have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness and thoroughness of the work assigned or to make general observations of facilities and structures. 

Work Environment: 

• This position is subject to: 
• Inside and outside environmental conditions with no effective protection from the weather. 
• Extreme cold - temperatures below 32 for periods of more than one hour. 
• Extreme heat - temperatures above 100 for periods of more than one hour; includes other environmental conditions such as wind and humidity. 
• Noise - may be necessary to shout to be heard above ambient noise level. 
• Hazards including a variety of physical conditions such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, moving vehicles, electrical current, working on scaffolding and high places, exposure to high heat or exposure to chemicals. 
• Atmospheric conditions such as those that affect the respiratory system or the skin and may include fumes, odors, dust, mist, gases, or poor ventilation. 

Disclaimer 

This position description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee in this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give assignments.  

This role description excludes the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties.  All Key Result areas are essential job functions and requirements.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.  

Roadrunner Food Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.

Roadrunner Food Bank participates in the E-Verify program.