Van Assistant

**DRIVING ASSISTANT**

**Position**:Driving Assistant

**Location**: Bolt Warehouse, Cape Town

A great opportunity has come up for a Driving Assistant looking for experience in an exciting and fast-paced environment.

**Purpose and Objectives**

To assist the Driver with collections and deliveries, including related administrative functions. To take joint responsibility with the driver for loading accuracy.

**Key Performance Areas**
- Cleanliness of vehicles
- Assist with accurate loading and offloading of vehicles
- Assist with accurate delivery of stock to customers
- Assist with maintaining relevant records
- Assist with Daily cash ups
- Effective communication with relevant supervisors and management
- Representation of Rialto Brands
- Adherence to Company procedures, and or regulations.

**Key Job Functions**
- Assist with maintenance and cleanliness of vehicles:

- Clean vehicle interior (including load box) daily, clean vehicle exterior - minimum of once per week, or more frequently if required.
- Assist with maintenance checks, report problems to Outbound supervisor.
- Assist with accurate loading, offloading, collections and deliveries:

- Check stock loaded for each trip against invoices. Offload stock accurately, at the correct customer, as per the invoice. Ensure POD requirements met on delivery.
- Ensure preservation of cold chain over each trip where applicable.
- Assist driver with the completion / update of route sheet. Submit fully completed route sheets and matched

POD’s to Outbound supervisor at the end of each trip.
- Assist with adherence to customer payment terms:
**Rialto Foods Cape Town**:19 Bolt Avenue, Montague Gardens 7441, Cape Town, South Africa, Telephone +27 (0)21 555 2160
**Reg No**. 2014/062496/07 **Johannesburg**:Stand 25, 1st Avenue, Linbro Park 2090, Johannesburg, South Africa, Telephone +27 (0)11 453 0438

**VAT No. **4080267224 PO Box 942, Green Point 8051 Cape Town, South Africa

A division of Libstar Operations (Pty) Ltd. **Rialto Foods: Chief Executive Officer**:L. Previtera **Directors**:WS Hamid (USA), TF Judge (Alt. TW Millar), S Khanna

(India), A Mazhar, M Muller (Alt. RT Nosi), A Patel (Great Britain), RW Smith, AV Van Rensburg

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- Ensure that invoice payment terms are adhered to by customer. Get authorization from orders department for deviations and note exceptions on invoices. Get instructions from Outbound supervisor where authorization not given.
- Assist driver with daily cash ups and de briefing. Verify and sign that cash up matches money collected from customers. NOTE: Driver and driver assistant will be responsible for shortfalls on cash-up, and disciplinary proceedings may follow.
- Effective communication with Outbound supervisor:

- Assist by reporting delays, accidents or other traffic and transportation situations to Outbound supervisor with could result in delivery delays or non-delivery.
- Alert Outbound supervisor of absence from work, per company requirements.
- Contact Outbound supervisor for instructions immediately should any issue or query arise at the customer, that was not part of issued trip instructions e.g. returns / uplifts.
- **Please note that you may on occasion be required to perform tasks that are not part of your normal daily**_
- **duties but may be necessary due to the operational requirements of the Company**_**.**

**Knowledge and Experience Required**
- Be able to read a map and be able to follow written and verbal geographic directions.
- Must have a reasonable knowledge of the allocated area / route.
- Must have grade 12
- Valid driver’s licence and PDP

**Person Profile, Skills and Attitude**
- Willing and able to work overtime as required / authorized by management.
- Able to get to and from work without the assistance of company transport.
- Able to perform physical duties, e.g. lifting heavy boxes and working in all types of weather.
- Drug and alcohol free.
- Good attention to detail, literacy and numerical ability, and communication skills
- Maintain a high standard of personal hygiene and appearance, including uniform and Personal Protective

Equipment items, at all times.
- Demonstrate helpful, friendly, respectful and professional conduct at all times, when dealing with customers and members of the public, or when on the road.
- Adhere to traffic laws, safety regulations and operating procedures at all times.

**Rialto Foods Cape Town**:19 Bolt Avenue, Montague Gardens 7441, Cape Town, South Africa, Telephone +27 (0)21 555 2160
**Reg No**. 2014/062496/07 **Johannesburg**:Stand 25, 1st Avenue, Linbro Park 2090, Johannesburg, South Africa, Telephone +27 (0)11 453 0438

**VAT No. **4080267224 PO Box 942, Green Point 8051 Cape Town, South Africa

A division of Libstar Operations (Pty) Ltd. **Rialto Foods: Chief Executive Officer**:L. Previtera **Directors**:WS Hamid (USA), TF Judge (Alt. TW Millar), S Khanna

(India), A Mazhar, M Muller (Alt. RT Nosi), A Patel (Great Britai