Weekday - Counter Sales and Backup Class B Driver

First, here’s what we’re not: Maine Oxy isn’t the typical corporate employer whose leaders lecture employees about what the company culture is, only to have you witness these same leaders act differently. In truth, company cultures are defined by the actions of a company’s senior leadership. Does your employer’s leadership act like their words?

Maine Oxy can’t be untrustworthy like that. Why? Because Maine Oxy is a family-owned company. Our company decisions come with heart because at the end of the day it’s personal to all humans in our organization. Corporate environments don’t have to care about the human aspect of their employees because there’s no family involved in “the bottom line”.

What does Maine Oxy do? We’re more than Propane! Maine Oxy is on a life-saving mission to provide high-quality specialty gases that already make a daily impact on your life! We’re the provider of Oxygen for our local veterinary and medical offices, we’re the provider of Carbon Dioxide for our local breweries, we’re the provider of Helium for everyone’s birthday parties, and we’re the provider of Acetylene for our local welders and metal fabricators.

All 300 of us at Maine Oxy are genuinely kind individuals who get to experience true collaboration. We can rely on integrity from each other, and we work in peace because of our inclusive safety program. The work is challenging for valid reasons, but it is rewarding, and the science of it is really cool!

Ready to be part of a place where your contributions directly impact lives? If you’re confident about your skills and abilities and want to make a real difference in your community, we’d love to welcome you to our team!

Position Summary:

Store Support serves as a Counter Sales Representative and a backup Class B Driver for our store location. When you are in the store you will help provide product knowledge and technical expertise to our customers. Occasionally you will be asked to use your Class B CDL (with HazMat endorsement and airbrakes) to drive and deliver our cylinders and hardgoods to customers as a backup for our full time Class B Drivers. This position is Monday-Friday typically 7:30 AM – 5 PM.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Counter Sales Portion (70%):

• Assist in all phases of store operations.
• Provide customers with an additional level of product knowledge and technical expertise.
• Completes paperwork accurately and in a timely manner according to company policies and procedures.
• Serves as primary in-house contact for major customer base served by branch store.
• Assists branch store sales staff in selling function and sales team in working up quotes.
• Labels stock, stock shelves, assembles machinery, conducts demonstrations, and arranges displays to enhance marketability.
• Help as needed in warehouse with cylinders and inventory.
• Assists in maintaining clean and neat store appearance.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Class B Driver Portion (30%):

• Performs pre and post trip vehicle inspections, documenting deficiencies and ensures all safety items are in good working order.
• Safely delivers hard goods orders and cylinders containing compressed gases to customers; returns empty cylinders to plant for refilling.
• Maintains load manifests and all other vehicle documents, ensuring they are properly completed and balanced with truck counts and shipping documents before and after deliveries.
• Establishes and maintains good customer relations by communicating in person with customers, providing information on cost, ordering and delivery times, etc.
• Ensure all safety rules are strictly observed.
• Complies with all DOT and OSHA regulations.
• Maintains appropriate drivers’ license and endorsements.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Customer service/sales experience preferred
• Possess or has the ability to learn about welding, gases and hardgoods. Prior welding/gas experience preferred but not required.
• Must be at least 21 years old.
• Must meet all physical qualification standards imposed by regulations for drivers.
• Strong verbal communication skills, self-motivated, sense of urgency, well-organized, ability to achieve goals, and ability to focus and pay attention to detail.
• Ability to analyze a customer’s situation and help resolve customer problems.
• Team player with positive attitude.
• Must be able to work overtime when necessary.

Education:

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• 1 year driving experience or driving school training in the past 4 years.
• Class B CDL with HazMat endorsement and airbrakes (or ability to obtain HazMat endorsement within 60 days of hire).
• Industry and related product knowledge, as well as experience handling compressed gases, preferred.
• Computer experience or basic knowledge in computer order entry system.

Physical Requirements:

Can read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse with the general public, to understand highway traffic signs and signals in the English language, to respond to official inquiries, and to make entries on reports and records.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to see, speak and hear.
• Must be able to drive hazardous cargo for up to 8 hours; Frequent bending is also required.
• Frequent sitting and standing, walking, using hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; may stoop, kneel, or crouch.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Ability to perform very heavy work—routinely lift 25lbs to 75lbs, and occasionally lift 76lbs to greater than 100lbs.
• Must be able to work outdoors in temperatures ranging from -10 to over 100 degrees.
• Ability to smell/hear leaking gas from cylinders.

The Perks:

• This is a full-time position (no seasonal layoffs).
• Working Monday-Friday roughly 7:30 AM to 5 PM.
• Choice of Medical, Dental, Life Insurance, Long-Term Disability & 401-K
• Company Paid Short Term Disability.
• 401(k) Match of 50% up to 6%.
• HSA Match up to $50 each pay period.
• 6 Weeks of Parental Leave and additional Paid Maternity Leave after one year!
• Accrue up to 2 week's of vacation per year!
• Paid Holidays!
• Black Friday off!
• 40 hours of Sick Time and two potential Floating Holidays!
• Yearly boots reimbursement of up to $150 for steel toe/composite toe or up to $250 for steel toe boots with the built in metatarsal guard.
• Yearly pants reimbursement of up to $150.

About Maine Oxy

Originally founded in Auburn, ME we have expanded to 17 locations in New England, a distribution hub in Orlando, FL, and a distribution hub in Manalapan, NJ. We are a leading distributor of industrial, medical and specialty gases and a distributor of quality hard goods including welding and cutting equipment, supplies and accessories. Maine Oxy is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $24.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Referral program
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Salary : $24 - $50