Truck Driver

Pay: $34.00/hr

Job Expectations

Comply with all applicable federal, state, local, SA Recycling safety, health, and environmental rules, regulations, policies and procedures.

Job Duties
Including, but not limited to:

- Load and unload trucks hauling scrap metal.

- Inspect and determine metal grade for inventory tracking.

- Perform DOT daily operation and safety pre- and post- inspections.

- Obeying and following applicable traffic laws.

- Complying with truck driving rules and regulations inspecting cargo, selecting proper tools (chains, straps, dunnage), following FMCSA regulations to maintain, and regularly checking loads.

- Reporting defects, accidents and violations.

- Regular attendance and punctuality are essential job functions.

- Communicates with office and customers to determine commodities to load.

- Works with customers to satisfy their needs and assist them when problems arise.

- Work with other employees in the scrap metal yard to ensure a safe working environment.

- Works independently when driving scrap metal.

- Perform normal daily operation maintenance refueling, lubrication, cooling system cleaning, and housekeeping.

- Clean-up work area at the end of shift. Keep work areas neat and orderly.

- Dispose of various waste materials in the appropriate manner.

Qualifications

- Must possess a Class A Commercial Drivers License (CDL)

- Required - 3 years of flatbed experience

- Must pass a medical physical and drug test

- Must pass a background check

- Preferred – high school diploma or GED and/or foreign education acceptable

- Bi-lingual (English & Spanish) language skills a plus

- Ability to communicate with others effectively; understand direction (written or oral) and use basic math skills as the job demands

- Employees in this position prior to April 2014 are presumed to be qualified and are "grandfathered" into their positions.

Physical Requirements

- Work Environment: Scrap metal recycling and shredder yard

- Equipment & Tools: Trucks up to 18-wheeler, hydraulic truck tilt and lift operations, Box Containers, mechanical tools

- Physical Demand Level: Light to Moderate, keeps steady when machine in rocking in all directions, climbing fixed ladders

- Work Capacity: Truck Driver Work Capacity

- Sensory Demands: hearing, vision, touch, smell and taste,

- Hand Movements: repetitive motions, gripping