Driver/Milk Hauler

Position Title: Driver/Milk Hauler

Overall Responsibilities: Transports raw milk from dairy to processing plant in a safe manner while ensuring proper techniques, principals, and procedures are followed which support the company’s policies, goals, and objectives. CDL with Endorsement: N-Tank Vehicles required.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Safely operate milk tanker in compliance with company rules, regulations, and policies while adhering to all safety practices
• Complete appropriate paperwork at farm and dairy plants.
• Maintain clean trucks and tankers both inside and out and report defects immediately
• Wash truck & tanker while in dairy plant milk intake daily.
• Follows schedule and designated route from location to predetermined destination
• Maintains positive communications with the Herd and Operations staff and report concerns to Supervisor
• Report any issues or incidents that may arise at the Dairy or on the road
• Measures milk loaded into trailer
• Loads and unloads product
• Adheres to all Quality and Food Safety policies and procedures as well as all Safety policies and procedures and reports deficiencies immediately
• Ability to communicate respectfully with peers, vendors, and community members
• Conducts Pre and Post trip inspections
• Maintains all required certifications
• Other duties as assigned

Skills & Attributes:

• CDL with Endorsement: N-Tank Vehicles required
• Dependable and able to prioritize competing priorities
• Acute attention to detail
• Strong organizational skills
• Ability to communicate effectively and efficiently
• Basic math skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division)
• Ability to read and record accurate volume and weight measurements
• Professionalism
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results
• Able to perform at a high level in a fast-paced environment

Physical, Mental & Visual Skills:

• Normal demands associated with commercial truck driving
• Some strenuous work involving lifting, connecting, disconnecting hoses.
• Ladder climbing to access top of tank trailers and farm tanks.
• Normal exertion associated with hooking and unhooking trucks and trailers.
• Employee is frequently (more than 75% of time) required to: use hands to finger, handle, or touch objects, tools, or controls, sit; to verbally communicate; and to hear.
• The employee is occasionally (up to 33% of the time) required to walk and stand.
• The employee must occasionally (up to 33% of the time) lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.