Driver's Assistant (Parcel Routes)

You'll load and offload trucks at a cement and brick yard in Tembisa so every delivery goes out full and correct. You don't need to be the loudest person in the room, just the one others can count on.

This post is in Tembisa (Gauteng). Please only apply if you can travel there daily. Overtime comes up in peak season and is paid.

• Guide trucks reversing into the bay with hand signals
• Offload containers by hand, counting cartons as they come off
• Sweep the bay and clear shrink-wrap after each loading
• Load trucks from the load sheet in drop order, last stop first
• Ride with the driver and carry goods into customers' premises

• Able to lift and carry heavy items all day
• Grade 9 or higher and able to read a delivery note
• Honest; you will be handling customer goods and cash-on-delivery slips
• No criminal record
• Friendly with customers at the door
• Willing to travel on routes that return late

• Speaking more than one local language for customer drops
• Past work as a driver's assistant

• Help to get your own licence through the company later
• Route-completion incentives in busy months
• Uniform and safety shoes provided

• Keep your CV to one page with your phone number big and clear. Depot managers phone, they seldom email.
• Say what hours you can start. Loading bays often hire the person who can be there at 04:00 without fail.