Now Hiring: Distribution Driver
SLUG Magazine is looking for new, part-time employees to join our distribution team, immediately! If you are interested in this position, please click this link to apply.
Overview: Distribution Drivers are part-time employees who work once a month to deliver the current issue of SLUG Magazine to local businesses in Salt Lake City and its surrounding areas. Opportunities for additional routes are frequently available throughout the month.
Reports to: Executive Editor, Circulation Coordinator, Community Development Manager
Critical Tasks & Responsibilities:
- Pick up and load magazines according to SLUG Magazine’s specifications
- Deliver SLUG Magazine to designated locations on assigned route once every month
- Unload and deliver magazines in designated area of each location on assigned route
- Engage with personnel at each location to be made aware of SLUG Magazine drop-off
- Pick up prior month’s returned issues
- Posting of posters and handbills on indicated route locations
- Complete route logs, including but not limited to: counting returned magazines, cataloguing rack identification number, etc.
- Ask for feedback on provided services and communicate any requests or complaints to proper SLUG personnel
- Attend biannual distribution driver meetings
- Maintain SLUG Magazine’s core values of quality and transparency
- Assist the SLUG Magazine Team in continuing to build a quality, recognizable brand name through customer service
Qualifications:
- Reliable transportation
- Valid driver’s license
- Proof of insurance
- Clean driving record
- Ability to follow delivery routes and time schedules
- Ability to problem solve
- SLUG Magazine reader
- Desire to contribute to community
Required Competencies:
- “Over-communicative” with route updates, changes, and any/all route details
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Strong work ethic and dependability
- Quick learner, adaptable
- Maturity and ability to professionally represent our company, both on and off the clock
- Excellent attention to detail
- Strong communication skills for in-person and telephone interactions with distribution locations
- Manage and prioritize multiple responsibilities efficiently
- Ability to communicate with senior management
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organizational skills
SLUG Magazine is an equal opportunity employer. SLUG Magazine will not discriminate and will take measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, creed, color, national origin, or sex. Individuals from all cultures and communities are encouraged to apply.