Driver Lead - 6845

Job Description

Job Description

We are seeking an enthusiastic, customer focused driver with a Class A Haz endorsement license and experience driving large trucks to utilize your experience across the Gardena, CA area. You will be collecting sharps and medical waste containers from our healthcare customer locations and delivering a high level of customer service daily. This role offers a high degree of autonomy, stable hours, access to some OT and good benefits. Our vehicle fleet is modern and well-maintained. We supply above and beyond the standard PPE for safe handling of medical waste and take training of our staff seriously– find out more about how we protect you at -19-employees

Looking for candidates with experience in the following areas: 

• Reporting data, working on spreadsheets
• Exp with MS Office products
• articulating any handoffs, metric boards
• VMS exp in the warehouse - zebra gun scanning in the warehouse
• overlooking and supervision of the plant, delegating to the team etc.
• Offloading of the transfer vehicles
• Safely collecting, delivering and storing our medical waste containers at customer locations
• Providing strong customer service and building positive customer relationships
• Operating vehicles in a safe manner
• Completing deliveries to time schedule, and clearly communicating changes or challenges as they arise
• Loading and unloading | Prioritizing and organizing your truck per schedule and needs
• Managing a route per leaderships direction | delivering timely, efficient and effective service
• Complying with DOT regulations, logging hours and roadside inspections
• Heavy lifting
• Consistently lifting up to 50 lbs, with occasional lifting of 50-75 lbs.
• Pushing and pulling 100-250 lbs, as appliable to the role.

• Class A license with Haz endorsement. A clean driving record AND valid medical card
• Willingness to work full time hours, approx. 40 hours a week
• Experience with pre-trip and post-trip vehicle evaluations
• Six months of driving experience with tractor trailers and/or straight trucks
• Passing our 7 Year FADV review in the Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse
• A flexible, can-do attitude with a strong customer focus
• Experience operating vehicles in a safe manner (straight trucks and tractor trailers as large as 26 and 53 feet long)
• Experience with DOT compliance, logging hours, roadside inspections
• Confident in a road check level 1 through level 3
• Proven longevity in past employment
• On time delivery practices!

• Job stability – as an essential service to healthcare we are a non-seasonal and stable business
• Opportunities for overtime
• Consistent work hours – Mon-Fri 2nd shift (Start at 6:00 PM - 2:00AM) (9-10 hour days)
• Benefits – Full time roles are provided benefits, sick leave and vacation leave from day one
• Permanent position –This is a Full-time permanent role of 40+ hours per week
• Competitive pay–This position is offering a competitive pay! $29-$32/hr

Who are we?

We are a healthcare service company providing safety systems and regulated waste collections for hospitals and an array of customers within the healthcare industry. Our focus is delivering quality and safety-focused medical waste management services that reduce needlestick injuries, improve infection control and reduce the environmental footprint of our customers. As a service to our customers we dispose and treat medical waste at our treatment facilities across the U.S.

If this sounds like the role for you, or somebody you know then we look forward to speaking with you!

To find out more of what a day in the life of a driver looks like visit - Driving with Daniels!

Daniels Health & Sharpsmart is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with anti-discrimination law, it is the purpose of this policy to effectuate these principles and mandates. Daniels Health & Sharpsmart prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Daniels Health & Sharpsmart  conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations.

Daniels Health conducts background checks and drug testing as part of the post‑offer hiring process.

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