Job Details
Job Location: Kansas - Kansas
Salary Range: Undisclosed
Job Category: Trucking
Description
General Purpose:
The Transportation Department Part-Time is responsible for assisting PrairieLand Partners (PLP) transportation department. The Transportation Department P/T reports to the Transportation Manager.
Essential Functions:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Assists to maintain and prepare inventory for transport.
- Supports service, parts, and sales departments.
- Helps to load and unload trucks.
- Flag (pilot car driver) for DOT drivers as required adhering to safety culture and procedures.
- Conduct business according to company values.
- Performs other duties as required and necessary to ensure the success of PrairieLand Partners.
Supervisory Duties:
Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Ability to consistently promote, support, work, and act in a manner in support of PrairieLand Partners vision, mission, and values.
- Knowledge of Department of Transportation (DOT) driving regulations and area roads.
- Ability to pump product to and/or from a tote, drum, or tank.
- Ability to develop working relationships with customers, both external and internal, to maximize sales, service, and parts opportunities and to ensure customer needs are addressed.
- Ability to perform minor roadside repairs, such as installing light bulbs.
- Ability to professionally represent PLP at all times and to meet or exceed customer expectations.
Education:
- High School Diploma or General Education Diploma (GED) equivalent is required.
Experience:
- Two years of experience operating commercial vehicles is required.
- An equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted on a year for year basis.
Additional Requirements/Licenses/Certifications:
- Must have a valid drivers license and have reliable transportation.
- Commercial Drivers License is required.
- Must be safety minded with attention to detail
- Must be able to comfortably operate ¾ - 1 ton pickups as well as pull trailers
- Must be able to secure loads according to DOT regulations
- Must have proof of ability to meet DOT physical requirements.
- Passing a driving record (MVR), criminal history background checks, employment verification, and drug screen will be required prior to the start of employment.
- Passing a Drug Screen is required at random request and in the event of a qualified traffic incident as required by PLP or to comply with DOT requirements.
Working Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Occasional outdoor work in extreme weather conditions (hot/cold); walking on uneven terrain; occasional exposure to insects.
- Work may be performed in a standard laboratory, field, or an office environment during all types of temperatures, weather conditions and all times of day or night while being exposed to excessive noise from machines. Snowy, wet, and muddy conditions will exist. Work may be done in confined or cramped spaces.
- Regular and long-term exposure to work areas containing toxic/caustic/hazardous/volatile chemicals; extreme conditions such as hot/cold; sharp hazards; dust/fumes/gasses; electrical shock; moving mechanical parts; high pitched and/or constant loud noise; sometimes long-term contact with bacteria and odorous, infectious/obnoxious material.
- Work may involve assisting with sampling, calibration of equipment and process instruments calibration / maintenance often in difficult areas.
- Ability to use gas monitoring equipment, safety tripod and harness and any other required safety equipment for entering both high and low hazard confined spaces for either plant.
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) required including cold weather gear, eye protection, gloves, and provided uniform.
- A clean and safety-conscientious environment required while employed.
- Work may involve long hours and overtime during holidays, weekends, and evenings.
Physical Activities:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Ability to stand, sit, walk, walk on unpaved terrain, talk, reach with arms and hands, have good manual dexterity, use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard, handle or feel, hear alarms/telephones/normal speaking voice.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
- May involve climbing ladders, stairs, steps and traversing catwalk grating, pushing, pulling, bending, stooping, and kneeling on a frequent basis and working in confined space and manual dexterity required to complete work tasks through safe and proper operation of power and hand tools, and motor vehicles.
- Ability to sit for sustained periods of time while operating a motor vehicle.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.
- Strenuous physical work involving heavy lifting, pushing, or pulling of objects up to 50 pounds frequently and 75 pounds occasionally.
- Moving, positioning, and carrying loads of up to 15 pounds upstairs and loading on four-foot-high surfaces frequently.
- Ability to withstand extreme hot and cold temperatures.
- While performing the duties of the job, the employee may be exposed to fumes such as vehicle exhaust.
- While performing the duties of the job, the employee is regularly exposed to loud noise such as the sounds of vehicle motors.
