
Last Mile Delivery Driver (Drop-Off and Pickup)
Our mission at Base is to fix the power grid and enable affordable and reliable electricity for all. To do that, we are building America’s Next-Generation Power Company; the first engineering-led, technology-focused, R&D-driven electricity company. We are a team of tenacious engineers, operators, and creatives who have solved hard problems and are here to do it again.
Base is looking for a Last Mile Delivery Driver who will be responsible for the final leg of the delivery process, ensuring that goods are delivered to customers' residences or businesses in a timely and professional manner. This role also involves picking up items as required, interacting with customers, and maintaining accurate delivery logs.
Responsibilities:
- Delivering Products: Safely and efficiently deliver packages or goods to residential and business addresses, ensuring all items are handled with care.
- Equipment: Safely operating an electric powered pallet jack to move pallets in and out of the truck.
- Customer Interaction: Provide excellent customer service when delivering products, answering questions, and addressing concerns as needed.
- Pickup Tasks: Perform pickups from customers, ensuring any return items are properly accounted for and in good condition. Ensuring that the customers yard is free from any trash or debris
- Route Management: Plan and follow the most efficient routes to ensure timely deliveries and pickups.
- Vehicle Maintenance: Maintain a clean, safe, and organized delivery vehicle. Perform basic maintenance checks, ensuring the vehicle is in good working order.
- Documenting Deliveries: Accurately record delivery information, including times and addresses, on delivery apps or paperwork.
- Inventory Management: Occasionally assist with loading and unloading products in the vehicle, ensuring all items are accounted for.
- Safety Compliance: Follow all safety protocols for both driving and product handling.
- Reporting Issues: Communicate any issues or delays in the delivery process, including damages, missing items, or road obstacles, to supervisors or dispatchers.
Required Skills / Qualifications:
- Valid driver’s license with a clean driving record.
- Experience driving box trucks, vans, or other commercial vehicles is preferred.
- Strong communication and customer service skills.
- Ability to lift and carry packages weighing up to 75-100 lbs.
- Ability to navigate and follow routes efficiently using GPS or mapping software.
- Comfortable working independently and handling responsibilities in a fast-paced environment.
- Basic knowledge of vehicle maintenance and safety procedures.
If you’re passionate about tackling one of the most critical challenges of our time, now is the time to join us. Together, we can usher in a new era of American energy abundance by developing the hardware, software, and deployment operations that make it possible.
Our Values:
We’re building a winning culture, and we’re looking for people who are up for the challenge. These are the values we expect you to embrace from day one:
- In-Person Work: We work full-time in the office. There is no hybrid or remote work.
- Challenge Assumptions: We’re not here to do things the way they’ve always been done. We look for people who question the status quo and improve broken systems. We are guided by principles, not rules.
- Operate with Urgency: Speed matters. We focus on what’s essential, make fast progress, and iterate quickly. Execution drives learning, and learning drives impact. Always have a bias for action.
- Give & Seek Feedback: We value intellectual honesty. We expect you to challenge ideas (even your own), give direct feedback, and receive it with humility.
- Deliver: We are high achievers with a drive to win. We take end-to-end accountability for seeing our work through and delivering on our responsibilities.
- Think Like an Owner: We are all owners of the business. We use our time and resources wisely and take personal responsibility for our impact on the bottom line.
- Be Opinionated: Great people make decisions with imperfect information. Eliminate murky ownership and drive towards decisions.
- Bring the Intensity: This is not a 9-to-5 job. We are building something hard, and that requires real commitment.
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