Manchester School District
Location
Manchester, NH | United States
Job description
Position Type:
School Food and Nutrition Services/Driver
Date Posted: 8/11/2023
Location: District Wide
Minimum Qualifications and Requirements: - High school graduate or the possession of a GED
- Some experience in driving delivery vehicles; or
- Any equivalent combination of experience and training which provides the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to perform the work.
- Thorough knowledge of how to operate a delivery truck in a safe and prudent manner.
- Skill in the operation of a large delivery truck.
- Ability to work as a team member.
- Ability to lift large and heavy items.
- Ability to practice safe working habits.
- Ability to learn routes to various schools in the City.
- Ability to communicate effectively with others, both orally and in writing, using both technical and non-technical language.
- Ability to understand and follow oral and/or written policies, procedures and instructions.
- Ability to use logical and creative though processes to develop solutions according to written specifications and/or oral instructions.
- Ability to perform a wide variety of duties and responsibilities with accuracy and speed under the pressure of time-sensitive deadlines.
- Ability and willingness to quickly learn and put to use new skills and knowledge brought about by rapidly changing information and/or technology.
- Integrity, ingenuity and inventiveness in the performance of assigned tasks.
Specific Core Function: Drives delivery van and performs delivery work; performs directly related work as required.
The principal function of an employee in this class is to deliver hot school lunch carts from the satellite kitchen to the elementary schools. The work is performed under the supervision and direction of the Director of School Food and Nutrition Services but some leeway is granted for the exercise of independent judgment and initiative. The nature of the work performed requires that an employee in this class establish and maintain effective working relationships with other School Department employees and the public. The principal duties of this class are performed while operating a truck on the City of Manchester streets.
Responsibilities of the Position: - Loads, delivers, and unloads school lunch carts at various schools.
- Loads canned goods from warehouse; deliver and unloads at satellite kitchen.
- Delivers stock to junior high and senior high schools.
- Picks up stock from junior and senior high schools and delivers to satellite kitchen.
- Picks up money from junior and senior high schools and delivers it to administration building.
- Takes shortest and safest routes possible in transportation operations, obeying all traffic lawas and monitoring other traffic.
- Practices defensive driving techniques.
- Provides needed information and demonstrations concerning how to perform certain work tasks to new employees in the some or similar class of positions.
- Keeps immediate supervisor and designated others fully and accurately informed concerning work progress, including present and potential work problems and suggestions for new or improved ways of addressing such problems.
- Attends meetings, conferences, workshops, and training sessions and reviews publications and audio-visual materials to become and remain current on the principles, practices and new developments in assigned work areas.
- Responds to citizens' questions and comments in a courteous and timely manner.
- Communicates and coordinates regularly with appropriate others to maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of interdepartmental operations and activities.
- Performs other directly related duties consistent with the role and function of the classification.
Supervisory Responsibilities - Required Special Qualifications: Not applicable.
Essential Physical Abilities : - Sufficient clarity of speech and hearing or other communication capabilities, with or without reasonable accommodation, which permits the employee to communicate effectively.
- Sufficient vision or other powers of observation, with or without reasonable accommodation, which permits the employee to review a wide variety of materials in electronic or hardcopy form.
- Sufficient manual dexterity with or without reasonable accommodation, which permits the employee to operate a personal computer, telephone and related equipment.
- Sufficient personal mobility and physical reflexes, with or without reasonable accommodation, which permits the employee to function within the general office environment.
Specified Length/Hours of Position: - This is a non-affiliated 52-week position.
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