Delivery Driver

at  Market Lane Coffee

Market Lane Coffee
Market Lane Coffee is looking for a new addition to our delivery driver team! This role is a casual, 3 days a week position to start out with, where you get to deliver coffee to our shops, wholesale customers and the warehouse roastery.
Please read the detailed description and send your application through by April 11th!
Position Description:

The Delivery driver for Market Lane is an important position with multiple responsibilities across various locations around Melbourne. All our shops and our wholesale customers rely on the delivery driver to complete tasks accurately and in a timely manner. Day to day, this person will interact with our own staff, but also with our wholesale customers. As such, a high level of customer service, problem solving and flexibility is required.

• 3 days a week / casual employment, approximately 20 - 25 hours per week.
• Must be available to work on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday - this is unfortunately not flexible.

This role responds directly to the Production Manager, with the Office Manager, Wholesale Manager and management making ad hoc delivery requests from time to time.

Job Benefits and Remuneration:

• Casual employment, award rates with potential to move to permanent employment.
• Potential to make up a full work week with other duties if required.

Specific Tasks:
Delivering coffee and stock to each of our Market Lane Coffee shops around Melbourne, delivering coffee and stock to our wholesale customers across Melbourne and logistical partners.
You will also be responsible for unpacking and maintaining the cleanliness of the work van after each run. Other delivery tasks may include collecting and delivering equipment, visiting suppliers, and moving stock or coffee between stores.

This Job Requires:

• A mature person with excellent communication skills that is capable of exceptional, tailored customer service support.
• Flexibility and adaptability, including the ability to manage a variable workload and changing priorities.
• A valid drivers licence.
• Ability to work within and create a collaborative workplace culture that supports the development of ideas and innovative solutions.
• An ability to self direct with excellent time management, and comfort working independently and autonomously.
• Logistical management skills that serve to solve problems creatively, and on the fly.

Additional Favourable Attributes

• Exceptional knowledge of coffee
• A background in warehouse work ( walkie stacker use) and or customer service
• Experience teaching/training coffee skills
• A great palate for tasting and talking about coffee flavours
• Knowledge of coffee machinery (espresso machines and grinders)
• A love of, and passion for, delicious things

To Apply:
Please send through your resume and cover letter by April 11th. We will begin interviewing as soon as applications start coming through. Even if you are not 100% about the role or have further questions, we’d still love to hear from you
About Market Lane Coffee:
Market Lane Coffee is coffee roaster and retailer born in 2009 in Melbourne. We have nine retail shop outlets and a roasting facility, with a head office in Brunswick East. We are proud to work with passionate employees, suppliers and producers who care about quality ingredients and service. We are dedicated to teaching people about the value of buying and drinking coffee that has been considered each step of the way, with all peoples best interests in mind.
At Market Lane, we put our hearts and souls into sourcing and roasting exceptional coffees that delight our customers everyday. Our goal is to make great coffee accessible and exciting, and easy to brew and enjoy. Since the beginning, we’ve been committed to quality, transparency and sustainability, and using business for good. These principles have a real impact on the way we buy coffee, the people we work with and how we run our business.
Creating and nurturing a positive, healthy community is of paramount importance to us. From our internal community, which consists of approximately 80 employees, to the communities that exists beyond our boarders. Our communities extend from each of our retail coffee shops in regards to our customers and our neighbour operators and organisations, our wholesale customers that serve our coffees, our former employees who have gone on to open their own coffee businesses, and finally the producing communities and suppliers that we work closely with year-after-year to ensure that we always provide delicious coffee to our loyal and trusting customers.

• 3 days a week / casual employment, approximately 20 - 25 hours per week.
• Must be available to work on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday - this is unfortunately not flexible