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Local Delivery Driver - CDL A

PepsiCo, Ona, WV, United States


Position Overview
PBNA $24.03 / hour.

Position delivers products to stores on an established route or via dynamic dispatch to customers including convenience and gas stores, small supermarkets, and drug stores, averaging 15-20 stops per day. Drives the delivery vehicle to the location, unloads and brings products into the store. Is responsible for ongoing rotating and stocking of products on store shelves, displays, vending equipment, and in coolers. Builds displays and sets up promotional materials such as pricing signs and banners. Generates invoices and is responsible for daily settlement of cash and charges. Has frequent interaction with store management.

The position is labor intensive, requiring lifting, loading, and pushing/pulling a significantly high volume of cases per day ranging from 20-45 pounds per case repeatedly during work hours. It also requires reaching, squatting, and bending while delivering and merchandising products in the store and delivering products across a wide variety of weather conditions. At times, such as summer and other peak seasons, this position requires long work hours.

Primary Accountabilities

Deliver products, serve customers, and execute all promotions to multiple stores each day.

Operate trucks requiring an appropriate CDL license (e.g., performing basic functions like driving forwards, backwards, or maneuvering in tight spaces).

Service all scheduled customers by the end of the daily shift.

Merchandise and rotate all accounts to local standards (e.g., filling shelves, building displays, making products look attractive on shelves, rotating products, cleaning shelves, refilling out of stocks, removing out‑of‑date products, removing/returning shells).

Push and pull pallet jacks, hand trucks, and breakdowns to move products to and from truck.

Establish positive working relationships with primary contact at each account.

Comply with operating procedures (e.g., scan‑in/scan‑out, following designated route).

Serve customers (e.g., communication, rapport building, attentiveness to customer needs).

Follow DOT regulations.

Maintain regular, reliable, and predictable attendance.

Basic Qualifications

21 years or older.

Pass the required drug test and physical capabilities test (if applicable).

Valid U.S. CDL with Non‑Excepted Interstate Status (if applicable).

Note:

In all California locations except Stockton, both non‑excepted intrastate and non‑excepted interstate status are accepted for this position. In Stockton, CA, only non‑excepted interstate status is accepted.

Pass DOT physical and DOT Road Test.

Follow DOT regulations.

Helpful Experience

Operating trucks requiring a valid U.S. CDL license (e.g., performing basic functions like driving forwards, backwards, maneuvering in tight spaces, backing into dock spaces).

Delivering products directly to stores (e.g., order‑entry, sale/distribution of products directly to store rather than third‑party, working as part of an account team).

Merchandising products (e.g., filling shelves, building displays, making products look attractive on shelves, rotating product, cleaning shelves, replacing out‑of‑stocks, removing out‑of‑date products).

Operating handheld computers (e.g., inputting data, entering transactions, printing).

Operating equipment (e.g., pallet jacks, hand trucks, breakdowns).

Working in a warehouse environment (e.g., product storage, product staging, forklifts).

Background Checks and Legal Requirements
Because the material job duties of this role involve regular field work and interfacing with employees, vendors, customers, and the general public, the Company has good cause to conduct a review of criminal history in accordance with applicable laws to ensure safety. A conditional offer of employment is contingent upon successful completion of a pre‑employment background check and drug screening. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. The Company will verify education, employment history, and motor vehicle or driving history (if applicable to this role).

The Company will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Fair Credit Reporting Act and all other applicable laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Police Code Sections 4901-4919 (San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance) and Chapter XVII, Article 9 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code (Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance).

Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Female / Minority / Disability / Protected Veteran / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity.

If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please download the available "EEO is the Law" & "EEO is the Law Supplement" documents and view the PepsiCo EEO Policy.

Please view our Pay Transparency Statement.

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