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in Chicago, IL
Driver Supervisor
Estimated Pay | $28 per hour |
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Hours | Full-time, Part-time |
Location | Chicago, Illinois |
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Job Description
About The Chefs' Warehouse
The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. (http://www.chefswarehouse.com) 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 Manager, 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 Manager 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.
- Manage driver performance and take proper disciplinary steps when necessary.
- Know, support, and enforce company policies.
- Collaborate with the Routing Team to improve service levels, on time pick-up and delivery.
- Monitoring and addressing all speeding and idling issues
- Visits customers and customer sites to evaluate and resolve safety issues, seeking service alternatives where appropriate.
- Reinforce all SOP for DOT inspections.
- Coordinate the training and onboarding of new drivers.
- First line of supervision for drivers.
- Ensures that drivers comply with physicals, drug or alcohol tests, and training required by regulatory agencies.
- Review implements company policy regarding parking tickets and driving violations.
- Address immediate driver concerns with routes, equipment, or procedures.
- Oversee fuel card expenses and approve all related invoices.
- 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.
- Manages Hours of Service (HOS) to ensure DOT compliance.
- Schedule all vacation/leave of absence for all drivers and helpers.
- Administer the Driver’s hand truck policy and repairs.
- Apply sound communication and motivational techniques, to supervise, counsel and discipline drivers.
About you:
- CDL A or B
- Must be able to read and write English at least at a high school level of proficiency.
- Two years of experience working as Driver Manager for a trucking company.
- Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
- Able to speak Spanish is helpful.
- MS Suite, Outlook, Excel.
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The above job description is not an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties as assigned by their supervisor.
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
The Chefs' Warehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate based on actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities and general treatment during employment. We are dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce.
We have a distinct competitive advantage in serving our customers because of our extensive selection of distinctive and hard-to-find specialty and center-of-the-plate food products,
What’s on our menu?
Enticing Appetizers:
A culture that is full of flavor and inviting! Creating an environment of belonging, where everyone is welcome!
Delivering our best in everything we do
We are committed to high quality food and dedicated to a positive team culture.
Divine Entrees:
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
What’s for Dessert?
The icing on the cake....
The safety of our employees is our priority!
WE have created essential guidelines to assure we are following CDC regulations!