About this role
Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate.
Tasks
- 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 emergency roadside repairs.
- Perform pre-trip, en route and post-trip inspection and oversee all aspects of vehicle.
- Perform preventive maintenance.
- 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 : Driver's License (Class 1 or A).
- Type of trucking and equipment: Straight truck (4,600kg+ or 10,000lbs+ with 3+ axles).
- Tractor-trailer.
- Transportation/travel experience: International.
- Local.
- Long-haul.
- Provincial/territorial.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Physically demanding.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Sitting.
- Personal suitability: Flexibility.
- Organized.
- Reliability.
- Team player.
- Experience: Experience an asset.
- Employment terms options: To be determined.
- Workplace information: On the road job.
- Health benefits: Health care plan.
- Support for newcomers and refugees: Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees . Support for youths: Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth.
- Support for Indigenous people: Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers .