Delivery Driver Needed in Houston, Texas, USA
A delivery driver transports packages, food, automotive parts, medical products, supplies, and other merchandise from warehouses, stores, distribution centers, and businesses to customers throughout Houston and surrounding communities.
Current Houston opportunities include local delivery drivers, van drivers, parts-delivery drivers, pharmacy delivery drivers, food-service drivers, CDL delivery drivers, and independent courier drivers.
List of Delivery Driver Vacancies
Delivery Driver
A delivery driver transports products from a distribution location to customers and businesses.
Responsibilities can include loading the vehicle, following assigned routes, delivering packages, obtaining delivery confirmations, maintaining the vehicle, and communicating with dispatch.
Package Delivery Driver
A package delivery driver transports parcels to residential and commercial addresses.
Responsibilities can include loading packages, scanning deliveries, organizing the route, navigating Houston neighborhoods, and completing multiple stops during the day.
Current Houston listings include delivery-associate positions requiring drivers to repeatedly enter and exit a van while carrying packages.
Van Delivery Driver
A van delivery driver operates a cargo van to transport merchandise throughout a designated service area.
Responsibilities can include inspecting the van, loading packages, organizing deliveries, navigating routes, and completing customer deliveries.
Food Delivery Driver
A food delivery driver transports meals, groceries, restaurant products, or food-service supplies.
Responsibilities can include loading food orders, checking delivery information, following routes, and delivering products while maintaining appropriate handling procedures.
Current Houston opportunities include local food-service delivery positions with CDL requirements as well as independent food-delivery opportunities.
CDL Delivery Driver
A CDL delivery driver operates commercial vehicles to transport larger quantities of merchandise.
A current Gordon Food Service position in Houston involves local food deliveries, daytime routes, and unloading cases using a ramp and two-wheeler.
Parts Delivery Driver
A parts delivery driver transports automotive or industrial parts between warehouses, stores, repair facilities, and customers.
A current Houston listing for a Parts Warehouse & Delivery Driver combines warehouse duties with local deliveries and requires the ability to lift packages weighing up to 50 pounds.
Pharmacy Delivery Driver
A pharmacy delivery driver transports medical and pharmaceutical products to designated locations.
Responsibilities can include verifying delivery information, maintaining appropriate handling procedures, completing routes, and obtaining delivery confirmation.
Current Houston listings include pharmacy-delivery positions with Cardinal Health.
Courier Driver
A courier driver transports documents, packages, catering orders, and other time-sensitive items.
Responsibilities can include accepting delivery requests, navigating routes, picking up orders, completing deliveries, and maintaining communication through a driver platform.
Houston Delivery Services currently offers independent-contractor courier opportunities for catering and restaurant orders throughout the Houston metro area.
Catering Delivery Driver
A catering delivery driver transports prepared food and restaurant orders to businesses, events, and customers.
Responsibilities can include collecting orders, checking packages, transporting food safely, delivering orders on schedule, and confirming completion.
Current Houston Delivery Services opportunities involve catering and restaurant deliveries using the driver's own vehicle.
Local Delivery Truck Driver
A local delivery truck driver operates a commercial vehicle within Houston and surrounding communities.
Responsibilities can include loading products, driving established routes, unloading merchandise, interacting with customers, and completing delivery documentation.
Current Sysco listings include CDL A/B local delivery-truck positions in Houston.
Delivery Associate
A delivery associate handles packages and completes scheduled residential or commercial deliveries.
Responsibilities can include loading a van, organizing packages, following GPS directions, walking packages to delivery points, and completing numerous stops.
A current Houston delivery-associate listing requires a valid driver's license and the ability to lift packages and repeatedly enter and exit a van.
Requirements
- Valid driver's license
- Clean or acceptable driving record
- Previous delivery experience when required
- Ability to follow GPS directions
- Ability to navigate Houston and surrounding areas
- Ability to follow assigned delivery routes
- Ability to load and unload packages
- Ability to organize cargo inside the vehicle
- Ability to inspect the vehicle
- Ability to maintain vehicle cleanliness
- Ability to complete delivery documentation
- Ability to use a smartphone
- Ability to use delivery applications
- Ability to communicate with dispatch
- Ability to communicate with customers
- Ability to obtain delivery confirmations
- Ability to work independently
- Good time-management skills
- Good communication skills
- Good customer-service skills
- Good driving habits
- Physical stamina
- Ability to repeatedly enter and exit a vehicle
- Ability to walk during delivery routes
- Ability to lift packages
- Ability to carry merchandise
- Ability to work outdoors
- Ability to work in different weather conditions
- Ability to work different schedules
- Ability to work weekends when required
- Ability to work evenings when required
- Ability to work overtime when required
- Ability to pass required background screening
- Ability to pass company driving screening
- CDL-A or CDL-B for applicable positions
- DOT medical certification for applicable CDL positions
- Ability to operate commercial delivery vehicles
- Ability to comply with company safety procedures
Benefits
- Opportunity to gain delivery-driving experience
- Development of route-navigation skills
- Experience with Houston-area routes
- Development of customer-service skills
- Experience with package handling
- Development of cargo-organization skills
- Experience using delivery applications
- Improvement of GPS-navigation abilities
- Development of time-management skills
- Experience with residential deliveries
- Experience with commercial deliveries
- Exposure to logistics operations
- Development of vehicle-inspection skills
- Experience with food deliveries
- Experience with automotive-parts deliveries
- Exposure to pharmaceutical deliveries
- Opportunity to develop CDL driving experience
- Development of cargo-handling abilities
- Improvement of communication with dispatch
- Development of workplace safety awareness
- Experience working independently
- Development of professional driving habits
Advantages
- Provides practical delivery-driving experience
- Develops knowledge of Houston routes
- Strengthens navigation skills
- Improves time management
- Develops customer-service abilities
- Builds experience handling packages
- Provides exposure to residential and commercial deliveries
- Develops vehicle-inspection habits
- Strengthens safe-driving practices
- Provides experience with delivery technology
- Develops communication skills
- Builds logistics-industry knowledge
- Can provide food-delivery experience
- Can provide pharmaceutical-delivery experience
- Can provide automotive-parts delivery experience
- Can develop commercial-driving experience
- Provides experience useful for future positions as a delivery driver, courier driver, CDL driver, local truck driver, route driver, package driver, parts driver, or logistics driver
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