Class A Truck Driver/Yard Person, 1st Shift in Gardner, Massachusetts at New England Wooden Ware Co
Job Description
Job Summary:
We are seeking a reliable and experienced Class A CDL Yard Jockey to manage the safe, timely, and organized movement of trailers and containers within our distribution/warehouse yard. In this role, you will play a critical part in maintaining dock efficiency, reducing traffic congestion, and ensuring smooth inbound and outbound freight operations.
Minimum License and Certifications:
- Licensing: Valid Class A Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) in good standing and the ability to be insured.
- Medical Card: Current DOT medical card.
- Must not have manual transmission restriction.
Minimum Experience and Skills:
- One year of commercial driving experience preferred.
- Must have the ability to follow direction and take an assigned task to completion.
- Must have experience and a good driving record handling 18 wheeled vehicles
- Ability to communicate effectively with supervisors and employees of the company as well as with customers and receiving personnel at other companies.
- A most basic capability. Must be able to record numbers correctly
- Must be capable of entering computerized diaries and manual diary cards.
- Must be capable of reading a ruler and load tags
- Must be efficient and safe manipulating controls on an industrial fork lift
Essential Job Functions:
- Safely drive an 18 wheel tractor trailer connected to trailers of a variety of sizes.
- Move NEWW trailers as well as other trailers in and out of docks and storage areas as needed
- Unload bales of product as needed.
- Help with fork lift duties as needed in the shipping area
- Other duties as assigned by supervisor and/or foreman
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the functions of the job.
Regularly required to talk, hear, sit, climb, twist, reach and stand. Specific vision abilities of this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Lift, pull, push and carry 25 to 50 lbs.
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