Plant Truck Driver (Caldwell, ID)

Summary

Supports Plant operations by supplying transport services using dump truck, forklift, and other variety of Company equipment to haul Plant production byproduct in a manner consistent with safety, quality, and production goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Timely removal of rock, vegetable debris, and Plant waste via dump truck and/or forklift.
• Utilize forklift to ensure frozen totes are dumped and hauled to pit.
• Assists and supports in various Plant operational needs.
• Ensures compliance with DOT regulations regarding trucks and drivers.
• Maintain a valid Class B or Class A CDL and valid Medical Certificate
• May assist with training other personnel
• Ensures that equipment in assigned area of operations is monitored and properly maintained.
• Ensures that necessary level of communication is maintained with team members and support groups.
• Ensures sanitation of equipment and work area during operations and proper cleaning during downtimes.
• Utilizes computer and computer programs to communicate, document, and track shift information and ensures that all documents and reports are completed accurately in a timely and efficient manner.
• Ensures self-compliance with Company policies, Standard Operating Procedures, Transportation, DOT/FMCSA, and Plant Policies.
• Ensures that interaction with team members and other support groups is conducted in a participative style conducive with operational goals. 
• Ensures there is no injury to self or others by following safe work practices (including Standard Operating Procedures) and policies.
• Perform Pre/Post Trip Inspections on Company equipment
• The ability to notice, resolve, and/or repair routine or serious problems, understanding of when to report issues to others as necessary. 
• Ability to operate small equipment and tools to maintain plant operations.
• Must be willing to accept a wide variety of job assignments and work under general direction in a fast-paced environment.

Typical Education

• High school diploma or GED
• CDL Truck Driver school

Relevant Experience

• Must have six months relative driving experience
• Experience/certification with a forklift and dump truck is preferred.
• Basic FMCSA Knowledge
• Working knowledge of input into computer systems and retrieval of data to facilitate job duties.
• Able to perform basic math (including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division).
• Knowledge of Production operations.
• Knowledge of standard repair procedures within the scope of the job and solve routine problems.
• Able to read and interpret technical data and manuals associated with the job.

Required Certifications

• A valid Class A CDL
• A valid Medical Certificate

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, bend over or stoop, crawl, and lift.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit in driver’s seat of truck while driving, as well as while waiting.
• The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls and reach with hands and arms. 
• Must be able to hook up and unhook trucks and related lines to and from trailer.  
• The employee is required to climb and balance while getting in and out of the truck and while hooking and unhooking lines to and from the trailer. 
• The employee must have the ability to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently works near moving mechanical parts and is in outside weather conditions during all-weather seasons of the year.
• The employee occasionally works in high, precarious places and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, and vibration.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Language Skills

• Ability to read and comprehend instructions, correspondence, and memos. 
• Ability to write correspondences and to effectively communicate information in one-on-one settings and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization in a professional manner.