Ready Mix Truck Driver

Job Summary:

This position is responsible for the delivery of ready-mixed concrete and other associated products to construction job sites within a reasonable proximity due to the perishability of ready-mixed concrete.  The daily work schedule may consist of five, up to 10+ hour days, with overtime on both a voluntary or mandatory basis for work week as well as on Saturdays, depending upon business level requirements.

Essential Accountabilities:

•  Pre-trip inspection of truck pursuant to D.O.T. regulations
• Inspection includes checking fluid levels,
• tire pressure
• other driver operation controls
• Maintains water tank before each delivery and verifies all valves are operating correctly
• Receives delivery ticket and fills truck (based on configuration) with concrete and any ancillary products requested
• Safely drives truck and ensures timely delivery by using most direct route
• Safely position truck to avoid any of customers’ property and/or equipment
• Complete discharge of load and wash chutes/truck/etc and returns to original location on truck
• Completes paperwork with customer (receives signatures/monies owed/etc)
• Communicates via 2-way radio with dispatch regarding all loads/deliveries
• Complete post-trip inspection of truck after each delivery

Minimum Qualifications:                             

Education:    High school diploma (minimum) or equivalent

Experience:    1-3 months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience

License:     Valid Department of Transportation Certified Commercial Drivers License / Class B minimum.

Language Skills: Must be able to read, write and speak English

Mathematical Skills:   Ability to add and subtract two digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's.  Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.

Reasoning Ability:    Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.  Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: 

1)   Ability to pass Federal Department of Transportation drug screen and physical. 

2)   Maintain driving record in accordance with Federal and State Motor Carrier regulations, and

      meet company policy requirements.

3)   Must be able to take orders, instruction and guidance from management and supervisors. 

4)   Ability to handle cash and make change. 

5)   Ability to deal with customers and other employees in a diplomatic manner, in a variety of

      stressful situations. 

6)   Must safely operate truck and perform tasks that are congruent with company policy, and

      within state and federal laws. 

7)   Maintain Department of Transportation Health cond. 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS  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. 

This would be considered moderately strenuous work.  There are various postures, movements, lifting, carrying, and push/pull requirements are as follows: 

a)       There is approximately four hours per day of sitting.  This would be considered driving to and from jobsite to plant, waiting to be loaded at plant, and lunches.  There is approximately four to five hours per day required standing.  This would be unloading concrete, cleaning standing on ladder washing charging hopper and fins or adding admixtures.  (The hour calculation is based on a ten hour work day, which could be longer or shorter based on customer demand). 

b)       The driver must be able to lift the desired weights at the frequency designated.  For example, the following items are part of the job task requirements:  rubber hose, map book, delivery tickets, 1.5# bags of fiber mesh, empty three gallon pails at a weight of approximately 5 pounds, and thirty pounds full and the frequency demand is eleven to thirty three percent of the time.  Empty five gallon pails weigh approximately seven pounds and approximately fifty pounds full.  Metal chutes weigh between fifty-one and seventy-five pounds, and the frequency rate is eleven to thirty three percent of the time.  Ninety-four pounds of Portland cement needs to be lifted on rare occasion of one to ten percent frequency. 

c)       The push/pull demand for the ready-mix driver consists of using handles to pull oneself into and out of truck.  Pulling oneself up ladder, the force will vary depending on weight and technique.  The driver must push/pull the door of mixer.  There is also push/pull in operating shift/clutch operation as well as operating controls at a height of seventy-one inches.  The driver must regularly push/pull an average of 9.9 pounds of force at 77 1/2" in height.  The driver must also push/pull main chute at rear of truck with an average of 56.7 lb. of pull and 58.9 lb. of push force. 

There are also regular push/pull forces in hooking as many as four chutes and using push/pull in side to side movements for proper positioning.  In addition, there are regular push/pull movements in hooking and unhooking bungee cords holding chutes, and using chute scraper to pull concrete down chutes and cleaning truck with brushes. 

There are positional requirements of the ready-mix driver that happen frequently.  Neck      flexation and neck rotation are frequent in order to add ingredients, read map book, hooking chutes, observation while driving, operations of lever of concrete flow, reversing truck on jobsites. 

There is neck-bending that happens occasionally when observing concrete flow and cleaning truck.  Trunk bending is a frequent physical demand for driving, filling water tank, adding additional ingredients, fastening chutes and cleaning underside of truck.  There is frequent twisting in the observation of work.  There is occasional squatting on low level cleaning and position third chute at times.  Climbing of an eight rung ladder, getting in and out of the truck, climbing onto truck while filling water tank is a frequent physical demand of a ready-mix driver.  There is continuous reaching out (shoulder height) and grasping in climbing, driving, attaching and retrieving chutes, operating controls, radio, truck status signaling system, grasping brush while cleaning, trigger nozzle on hose, and controlling flow of concrete.  There is also frequent reaching up and finger manipulation in the operation of levers to control concrete, buttons to control truck, driving, squeeze trigger on hose, pulling ladder down, climbing, and putting chutes on. 

WORK 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. 

1)       Works outside approximately seventy percent (70%) of the time, and indoors approximately thirty percent (30%) of the time.  The temperature range exposure is from -40 to 100+ degrees F. depending upon the time of year.  Other weather and environmental conditions that may persist are rain, snow, sleet, wind, high humidity, and often muddy or icy conditions on both roads and jobsites. 

2)       Subject to severe exposure with respect to chemicals such as cement, lime, ASTM Type A,B,C,D,E,F chemical admixtures, and diesel fuel. 

3)       Subject to severe exposure of slippery surfaces such as icy, and muddy conditions at jobsites and plants.  Ladders, steps on trucks are also in this group. 

4)       Severe exposure to moving objects such as other vehicles on highway, mixer on truck, all jobsite machinery such as cranes, and wheel loaders. 

5)       Subject to a moderate exposure to noise from ready-mix truck, plant, other highway noise, and jobsite equipment.  Hearing protection is available at plant. 

6)       Responsible for Personal Protective Equipment such as hard hat, safety glasses, work shoes, and gloves once issued. 

7)       Subject to a high amount of high elevation.  This occurs climbing in/out of trucks, climbing up/down ladder, and while working on elevated joists. 

8)       Subject to a moderate amount of inhalation.  This is caused from truck exhaust, dust from cement on jobsites, and other airborne dust.

Argos USA is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We embrace diversity in all aspects of our business.