History of Bekins

The Bekins Company is a frontier in the moving and storage industry. Originally specializing in transporting household goods, the company now also moves office furnishings, trade show exhibits, and company inventories, as well as providing storage facilities for a numerous of items.

The Bekins Company was established as Bekins Van Lines in 1891 by Martin and John Bekins in Omaha, Nebraska. The company soon created branches on the west coast and the Chicago, Illinois area. It claims to have developed containerization in 1920, and to have conducted the first transcontinental move by motor van in 1928. The company was obtained by GeoLogistics Corporation in 1995 and became an agent owned company in 2002, making it a form of cooperative. The Bekins Company is based in Hillside, Illinois.

Job Description/Average Wage

Truck Driver:   As a Truck Driver, your duty is to primarily deliver or pick up merchandise or to deliver packages within a particular area. May need the use of automatic routing or location software. May load and unload truck. Some of your daily task are named below.

• Follow traffic laws, and pursue established traffic and transportation methods.
• Examine and sustain vehicle supplies and equipment, for example gas, oil, water, tires, lights, and brakes, to ensure that vehicles are in proper working condition.
• Report any mechanical difficultys encountered with vehicles.
• Present bills and receipts and mount up payments for goods delivered or loaded.

The yearly average wage for a Truck Driver is around $53,000 to $57,000.

Accounting Manager: As an Acccounting Manager you will act upon professional accounting activities for specialized, complex and/or functional areas requiring the expert knowledge and professional application of accounting principles, practices and techniques in accord with industry standards, current laws and university policy. Manages resources of assigned areas to absolute goals and objectives and manages lower level professional accountants and other staff for work of substantial technical difficulty. Some example of your duties are as listed below:

• Administers activities of subordinates.
• Plans, directs, organizes as well as schedules the activities of one or more specialized accounting functions.

In this  position, you would make anywhere from $65,000 — $78,000 a year.

Customer Service Representative: As a Customer Service Representativeyou will be receiving and placing telephone calls. Maintains solid customer relationships by means of handling their problems and concerns with speed and professionalism. Executes data entry and uses software programs. Also may involve research skills to trouble shoot customer problems. Excellent communication abilities are necessary. In this position, you would make somewhere from $29,000 — $31,000 a year.

Operations Manager: An Operations Manager’s job is to guarantee the smooth operational procedures of the company. An operations manager on the other hand should be well trained and skilled particularly in machineries and equipments since this job position accentuates more on technical skills. Operations on the workplace as well as its employees productivity, is the chief liability of an operations manager. Technical skill is the main requirement in this type of job. The average annual wage for a Operations Manager is around $38,000-$89,000.

How to apply

If you want to apply for the job, or for the other available jobs they offer, you may visit them at their website and read further instructions on how you will apply for the position you desired. Click on the link to view their current job openings.

http://www.bekins.com/moving/Career-Opportunities