Company:
Chefs’ Warehouse
Location: Boston
Closing Date: 06/11/2024
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
About The Chefs' Warehouse
The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. ( combines exceptional quality and brand building with broadline food service distribution for more than 35 years. With Protein, Specialty, Produce, and Broadline offerings, we service the most discerning chefs in a hybrid approach of convenience and superior quality. We introduce more than 2,000 artisan producers of the world's finest ingredients from over 40 countries to the finest chefs in the world. We passionately consult, sell, and build relationships with more than 35,000 customers through the most experienced network of over 600 consultive sales associates, best-in-breed technology, rapid service, and support levels that solidify our long-standing ties to both established and up-and-coming premium restaurants.
Mission: The mission of The Chefs' Warehouse is to provide the world's greatest ingredients to the world's best chefs.
Our C.H.E.F.S. Values:
Curious & Creative
Hungry For Food & Results
Entrepreneurial
Forward Thinking & Flexible
Supportive (Of Peers & Chefs)
Position Summary:
As a Driver Lead, you will coordinate the activities of drivers to maximize productivity, while assuring prompt and effective service to customers. You must also have a strong work ethic and exceptional attention to detail. It will also be a vital part of your role as a Driver Lead to provide quality customer service while improving efficiency and reducing costs to meet objectives.
What you'll do:
Perks & Benefits:
Other details
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The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. ( combines exceptional quality and brand building with broadline food service distribution for more than 35 years. With Protein, Specialty, Produce, and Broadline offerings, we service the most discerning chefs in a hybrid approach of convenience and superior quality. We introduce more than 2,000 artisan producers of the world's finest ingredients from over 40 countries to the finest chefs in the world. We passionately consult, sell, and build relationships with more than 35,000 customers through the most experienced network of over 600 consultive sales associates, best-in-breed technology, rapid service, and support levels that solidify our long-standing ties to both established and up-and-coming premium restaurants.
Mission: The mission of The Chefs' Warehouse is to provide the world's greatest ingredients to the world's best chefs.
Our C.H.E.F.S. Values:
Curious & Creative
Hungry For Food & Results
Entrepreneurial
Forward Thinking & Flexible
Supportive (Of Peers & Chefs)
Position Summary:
As a Driver Lead, you will coordinate the activities of drivers to maximize productivity, while assuring prompt and effective service to customers. You must also have a strong work ethic and exceptional attention to detail. It will also be a vital part of your role as a Driver Lead to provide quality customer service while improving efficiency and reducing costs to meet objectives.
What you'll do:
- Establish and maintain positive and professional working relationships with customers and drivers.
- Be part of a team that works to maintain drivers and avoid driver turn-over.
- Know, support, and enforce company policies.
- Collaborate with the Routing Team to improve service levels, on time pick-up and delivery.
- Visits customers and customer sites to evaluate and resolve safety issues, seeking service alternatives where appropriate.
- Reinforce all SOP for DOT inspections.
- First line of supervision for drivers.
- Review implements company policy regarding parking tickets and driving violations.
- Address immediate driver concerns with routes, equipment, or procedures.
- Ensures safety and federally administered compliance regulations are enforced for equipment, and employees.
- Ensure that drivers have a clear understanding of the customers' needs and expectations.
- Ability to answer and train DOT safety compliance issues, ensuring that drivers follow Pre/Post-Trip inspection guidelines.
- Monitor CDL credentials that prevent drivers from operating a commercial vehicle.
- Administer the Driver's hand truck policy and repairs.
- Apply sound communication and motivational techniques, to supervise and, counsel.
- Must be able to read and write English at least at a high school level of proficiency.
- Two years of experience working as a Driver for a trucking company.
- Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
- Able to speak Spanish is helpful.
Perks & Benefits:
- Paid Vacations, Paid Holidays
- Health, Dental and Medical Benefits
- Weekly pay
- Life Insurance
- 5% above cost for our high-quality food products
- Employee discounts for travel and events
- 401k
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Other details
- Pay Type Hourly
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