Truck Driver - Malawi
Sun King
Malawi
Posted on Feb 13, 2025
Location: Malawi
The Team you will join:
The Truck Driver is accountable for transporting goods from one location to another. Their job duties include loading their vehicles, abiding by traffic laws and ensuring safe unloading and delivery at their destination.
The Team you will join:
The Truck Driver is accountable for transporting goods from one location to another. Their job duties include loading their vehicles, abiding by traffic laws and ensuring safe unloading and delivery at their destination.
- Department
- Operations
- Employment Type
- Fixed Term Contract
- Location
- Malawi
- Workplace type
- Onsite
- Reporting To
- Fleet Supervisor
What you would be expected to do:
- Long-distance driving
- Communicating and coordinating with dispatchers
- Obeying and following applicable traffic laws
- Securing cargo and properly arranging and balancing it within the vehicle
- Maintaining a detailed log of working hours in compliance with regulations
- Ensuring any mechanical issues with the vehicle are corrected before driving
- Planning routes and meeting delivery schedules
- Reporting defects, accidents and violations
- Performing daily maintenance of the truck (refueling, checking vehicle condition, cleaning etc.)
- Loading and unloading box trucks with pallet jacks
- Interacting with customers in a professional manner
- Performing pre and post-trip vehicle inspection reports
- Recording cargo deliveries
- Verifying loads for accuracy
- Inspecting vehicles for mechanical items and safety issues and perform preventative maintenance
- Complying with truck driving rules and regulations (size, weight, route designations, parking and break periods) as well as with company policies and procedures
You might be a strong candidate if you:
- Have a valid driver’s license that allows one to drive heavy commercial vehicles ( C1 Class Driving Licence).
- Posses basic education with at least a Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE).
- Have extensive experience driving heavy commercial vehicles for 1-3 years with clean driving records.
- A person of integrity and possess a high degree of personal integrity and professionalism.
- Able to demonstrate sound judgement, excellent communication skills.
- Passionate about working within rural, off-grid consumer set up.
- Able to to demonstrate strong knowledge of safety regulations, familiar with traffic rule and laws.
- Able to display good physical fitness, good hand-eye coordination and great visual and hearing acuity.
- Can drive long hours and travel regularly.
- Possess extensive knowledge of applicable truck driving rules and regulations.
- Can display adaptability and foresight to handle unexpected situations (traffic, weather conditions etc.).
What we offer (in addition to compensation and statutory benefits):
- A platform for professional growth in a rapidly expanding, high-impact sector.
- Immerse in a collaborative culture, energized by employees of Sun King who are collectively motivated by fostering a transformative, sustainable venture.
- A genuinely global environment: Engage and learn alongside a diverse group from varied geographies and backgrounds.
- Tailored learning pathways through the Sun King Center for Leadership to elevate your leadership and managerial capabilities.
About Sun King
Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, combining cutting-edge product design, fintech, and field operations to deliver energy access for the 1.8 billion people who live without an affordable and reliable electric-grid connection. Sun King has connected more than 20 million homes to solar power across Africa and Asia, adding over 200,000 homes each month.
Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.11 a day via mobile money or cash.
Instead of paying for expensive, polluting, and health-damaging kerosene for lighting or diesel for power, customers unlock savings through accessing solar power and after one to two years of payments, customers own their solar equipment outright. To date, our Sun King solar products have saved customers more than $4 billion cumulatively.
Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 28,000 field agents — over 650,000 payments each day. Embedded electronics inside each Sun King device regulate usage based on payments, similar to the operation of a pre-paid mobile or electricity meter.
Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 28,000 field agents — over 650,000 payments each day. Embedded electronics inside each Sun King device regulate usage based on payments, similar to the operation of a pre-paid mobile or electricity meter.
From cost-effective solar systems that provide home lighting and phone charging to robust solar inverters that can power high-energy appliances such as laptops, computers, refrigerators, and more, effectively acting as a full stand-in for grid power, Sun King’s products cater to a wide range of income segments and energy needs. Leveraging its proven distribution network and brand, Sun King is expanding its range of products and services to encompass clean cooking, electric mobility, entertainment, and more, aiming to address the needs of our underserved customers.
Sun King employs 2,800 full-time staff in 12 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families.
Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 44% of Sun King’s workforce.
