R10055560 Driver (Open)

Location:

Birmingham, AL (RDA) - Welding equipment rental

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

Under the direction of the Branch Manager, the incumbent ensures the safe delivery and pick-up of welding equipment, parts, supplies and accessories to and from our customers.

Essential Functions

Maintains a safe working environment by following Airgas/Red-D-Arc’s health and safety guidelines. 

Ensures safe delivery of equipment, parts, supplies, and accessories to customers.

Ensures efficient and excellent customer service when delivering or picking up orders.

Maintains DOT driver logs and DOT reports required for vehicles.

Assists with shop housekeeping and helps technical personnel as needed around shop when not driving or assisting customers by servicing equipment.

Performs DOT safety inspections of fleet vehicle before operation.

Completes required paperwork prior to delivery and at time of pick up.

Demonstrates safe and courteous driving while on the road.

Completes trip reports and fuel tax reports monthly.

Helps customers with any questions they might have pertaining to the operation or use of the equipment.  Provides customers an overview of equipment operation if necessary.

Communicates with all branch staff.

Performs other related duties as required.

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Competency Statements

Leadership: Must be able to guide and mentor associates.  Must be able to delegate and follow-up effectively.

Relationship Building:  Must be able to communicate effectively.

Decision Making: Must be able to work independently while making decisions based on company policies and objectives.

Problem Solving: Must be able to proactively and methodically deal with conflicting goals and challenging situations.

Education

High School Graduate or General Education Degree (GED).

Experience

Greater than one but up to two years related experience.

Working knowledge of positioning equipment, welding applications and equipment an asset.

Valid Driver’s License.

Commercial Driver’s License (for CDL vehicles) preferred.

Forklift Training.

Skills and Abilities

Ability to make critical decisions while following company procedures.

Ability to act proactively or provide a solution with work-related problems.

Ability to effectively build relationships with customers and co-workers.

Ability to work with a wide variety of people with different personalities and backgrounds.

Adaptable to set and prioritize work with varying exceptions.

Communicates with clarity, verbally in one on one or group situations, and over the telephone.

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We care about and support our Airgas Families. This is evident not only through our competitive compensation but also through a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision plans, vacation, sick time, floating holidays, and paid holidays for full-time employees. 

We provide a progressive parental leave package for our eligible Airgas parents, offering generous paid time off for the birth or placement of children,  including 14 weeks of paid child birth benefit for birth mothers on leave, as well as paid parental leave benefits for other associates. 

Additionally, we offer our employees a 401k plan with company matching funds, tuition reimbursement, discounted college tuition for employees’ dependents, and an Airgas Scholarship Program for dependent children.

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Your differences enhance our performance

At Airgas, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability or any other protected characteristic. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Information
 

We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. 

Please click here to view the EEO Know Your Rights poster and here to view the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination poster. Airgas, an Air Liquide Company invites any applicant and/or employee to review the Company’s written Affirmative Action Plan or Policy Statement. This plan or policy statement is available for inspection upon request.

Airgas, an Air Liquide Company and its group of companies does not discriminate against qualified applicants with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to the known disabilities of such individuals so as to ensure equal access to benefits and privileges of employment. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact us by email at us-accommodationrequest@airgas.com.

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