Days/Hours Of Work
Job Summary
The Driver Merchandiser at Heartland Coca-Cola is responsible for driving and delivering pre-ordered product to assigned accounts on specified routes.
Job Responsibilities
- Delivers products to customers on assigned route. Merchandise, displays and rotates products according to company standards. Picks up company property from customer locations and collect returns.
- Utilize computer technology to create customer invoices, collect money due, and settle all customer accounts daily.
- Provides excellent customer service and meets customer’s expectations through communication, problem resolution, and appropriate follow-up.
- Ensures compliance with regulatory and company policies and procedures including DOT regulations.
- Collaborates cross-functionally with other departments to build relationships and ensure customer satisfaction.
- High School Diploma or GED preferred.
- Minimum of one year of work experience required.
- Local delivery experience preferred.
- Must be 21 years of age and legally eligible to work in the United States.
- Class A Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) and a clean driving record within MVR guidelines. CDL license needs to cover both automatic and manual vehicles. Illinois residents are required to have a CDL issued from the state of Illinois.
- Prior experience using pallet jack is preferred. Ability to obtain powered industrial truck certification upon hire is required.
- Speaking: Constantly with customers (investigates, negotiates, recommends, reports, etc.)
- Acute Vision: Constantly (observing both near and far, reading documents)
- Typing: Frequently using electronic devices for day-to-day business (order confirmation, instant messaging, texting)
- Mobility: Frequent travel throughout customer locations (walking in backrooms, aisles, greeting customers)
- Bending/Squatting: Frequently (lifting and placing product from the truck to the ground or from pallets to shelf)
- Lifting: Frequent- Lift 50 lbs. or less (full cases of product)
- Pushing/pulling: Frequent use of manual carts
- Climbing: Frequent entering and exiting the cab of a truck
- Driving: Constant travel between customer locations
- Ability to work in environments where temperatures vary with the seasons
About Heartland Coca-Cola
Heartland Coca-Cola Bottling Company produces, sells, and distributes the highest quality and best tasting Coca-Cola and Monster Beverages across the states of Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois. Our brand offerings provide multiple beverage options in non-alcoholic categories including sparkling soft drinks, water, ingredient enhanced, isotonics, tea, energy, juice, coffee and nutrition. We value our people, customers and community which drives our passion to work and win together as a team.
Benefits And Other Information
We offer a competitive benefits package to full-time employees including medical, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, 401(k), paid time off, wellness programs and tuition reimbursement. Part-time employees are eligible for paid time off, 401(k), and tuition reimbursement.
Pre-employment background check is required.
Heartland Coca-Cola is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE), and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, and any other class protected by law. Veteran friendly.
Requisition ID: 245934
Company: Heartland Coca-Cola Bottling Company, LLC
About the company
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Since 1895, Coca-Cola has been sold in every state and territory in the United States. We proudly carry on this tradition of distributing the most popular and best-selling brands and beverages to wonderful communities all across Kansas, Missouri, and Southern Illinois. We operate in 17 Sales and Distribution Centers across Kansas, Missouri, and Southern Illinois, and 1 production plant in Lenexa, Kansas.
At Heartland Coca-Cola Bottling Company, we produce, sell, and distribute the highest quality and best-tasting beverages in the world by honoring the principle of, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." As part of one of the most recognizable brands in the world, we strive to bring refreshment to our customers by upholding the four pillars of our mission:
We will work and win together as a team by promoting a culture that values how our people think, feel, and act.
We will partner with our customers to grow their business and ours.
We will be a positive influence and active participants in the communities in which we operate.
This will ensure the profitability of our company by measuring the dedication, success, and trust of our people, the growth of our customers and their partnerships with us, and the way our communities regard us.
By weaving the threads of our mission into the fabric of our daily operations, Heartland Coca-Cola strives to uphold the long-lasting legacy that Coca-Cola's products have forged for over one-hundred years.
To learn more about Heartland Coca-Cola, please visit our website: https://heartlandcocacola.com/. To view current job listings, please visit https://heartlandcocacola.com/careers/.