About this role
Join the team at Heartland Coca-Cola Bottling Company!
Days/Hours of Work: Monday-Friday 5AM start
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.
Job Requirements
- 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.
Physical Requirements
- 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
Pay: $25.00 an hour
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: 242044
Company: Heartland Coca-Cola Bottling Company, LLC
Other facts
About CONA Services
CONA Services is making IT Solutions happen for North American Coca-Cola Bottlers!
As our company name reveals CONA Services is mainly about 2 things:
- CONA = Coke One North America, a common set of processes, data standards, manufacturing and customer solutions tailored for the North America
- Services that enable a superior customer experience and digital business innovations for our Coca-Cola Bottlers that happen to be our customers, our leadership and partners at the same time.
Our mission is to provide advantaged business process and IT services to our members at the right costs to ultimately support those who are selling Coke everyday – “By the Bottlers for the Bottlers”.
What you'll do
- The Driver Merchandiser is responsible for delivering products to customers on assigned routes and merchandising products according to company standards. This role also involves utilizing technology for invoicing and ensuring compliance with regulations.
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