**Delivery Associate - $22/Hour**

The Delivery Associate plays a key role in ensuring building materials are accurately prepared, safely loaded, and reliably delivered to customers within a 100-mile radius. This position combines warehouse operations, forklift operation, and customer-facing delivery work to support efficient, timely, and damage-free transport of shingles and other construction products.

Responsibilities

• Read work orders and follow oral instructions to determine work assignments, materials, and equipment needed for each delivery.
• Assist in delivering shingles and other building products to customer locations within approximately a 100-mile range.
• Operate a motorized forklift and other industrial trucks to position lifting devices, move, load, and unload packages or products to designated areas.
• Manually transport building products to ensure timely and complete delivery to customers and internal locations.
• Count finished products to verify that product orders are accurate and complete before shipment or delivery.
• Tie products into secure bundles for further processing or shipment, following prescribed procedures and safety guidelines.
• Install protective devices, bracing, and strapping to prevent shifting or damage to items being transported.
• Maintain storage areas in a clean and orderly condition to support safe and efficient warehouse operations.
• Perform routine maintenance on power industrial trucks, including cleaning, recharging batteries, and fueling as needed.
• Provide courteous, professional customer service during deliveries and interactions at the yard.
• Use delivery tickets and related documentation to confirm delivery details and ensure correct products reach the proper destination.

Essential Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum 6+ months of experience in a warehouse, production, or construction environment.
• Minimum 6+ months of experience working in a non-climate-controlled environment.
• Minimum 6+ months of experience in a physically demanding work environment with consistent lifting of up to 75 lbs.
• Ability to lift up to 150 lbs occasionally as part of daily duties.
• Experience with forklift operation, loading, palletizing, and shipping/receiving activities.
• Experience with loading and unloading trucks in a warehouse or yard setting.
• Strong customer service skills for face-to-face interactions with customers during deliveries and at the yard.
• Ability to follow work orders and oral instructions accurately and efficiently.
• Preferred 6+ months of experience working with lumber or other construction materials and tools.
• Preferred 6+ months of experience working with customers face to face in a delivery, retail, or service environment.
• Ability to read and interpret delivery tickets and related documentation.
• Comfort working in dusty, non-climate-controlled warehouse and yard conditions.
• Attention to detail when counting products, bundling materials, and securing loads.
• Reliability and strong work ethic in a physically demanding role.
• Basic understanding of safe material handling and load securement practices.

This role offers the opportunity to work in a close-knit team environment where collaboration and reliability are valued. You will enjoy consistent daytime hours, allowing for a predictable schedule and work-life balance. The setting provides hands-on, physical work that keeps you active, with the chance to build practical skills in material handling, forklift operation, and customer service. The team-oriented culture encourages mutual support, and interviews are conducted flexibly during regular business hours to accommodate candidates' schedules.

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Waverly, NE.

The pay range for this position is $22.00 - $22.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)