About this role
Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate.
Work setting: Various locations.
Tasks
- Professionalism in customer service.
- Drive as part of a two-person team or convoy.
- Load and unload goods.
- Operate and drive straight or articulated trucks to transport goods and materials.
- Oversee condition of vehicle and inspect tires, lights, brakes, cold storage and other equipment.
- Perform brake adjustments.
- Perform emergency roadside repairs.
- Perform pre-trip, en route and post-trip inspection and oversee all aspects of vehicle.
- Receive and relay information to central dispatch.
- Record cargo information, hours of service, distance travelled and fuel consumption.
- Tarping and ensuring safety and security of cargo.
- Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses : Class 1/1F/A Licence (semi trailer trucks).
- Documentation knowledge: Driver logbook.
- Inspection report (pre-trip, en-route, post-trip).
- Maintenance and repair reports.
- Type of trucking and equipment: Flatbed.
- Refrigerated.
- Tractor-trailer.
- Transportation/travel experience: Local.
- Long-haul.
- Security and safety: Criminal record check.
- Driver's validity licence check.
- Driving record check (abstract).
- Transportation/travel information: Valid driver's licence.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Attention to detail.
- Handling heavy loads.
- Sitting.
- Employment terms options: Early morning.
- Evening.
- Shift.
- Morning.
- Night.
- Experience: Experience an asset.
- Employment terms options: Day.
- Weekend.
- Overtime available.
- Green job: Involves duties and responsibilities that lead to positive environmental outcomes.
- Support for persons with disabilities: Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for persons with disabilities.
- Support for newcomers and refugees: Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees . Does not require Canadian work experience.
- Support for youths: Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for youth.
- Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth.
- Support for Veterans: Offers flexible onboarding options to allow Veterans to gradually adapt to the civilian workplace (for example: gradually increasing hours and responsibilities, etc.) . Support for Indigenous people: Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers . Supports for visible minorities: Offers mentorship programs that pair members of visible minorities with experienced employees.
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities.