About this role
Maine Oxy has an immediate opening for a Class A Driver !!
$30/hour hourly pay, plus jump in with a $3000 sign on bonus! Full time, home weekends, steady work, and overtime typically available!
About Us
What does Maine Oxy do? Were more than propane! Maine Oxy is on a life-saving mission to provide the high-quality specialty gases that already make a daily impact on your life! We provide and transport oxygen for local veterinary and medical offices, carbon dioxide for local breweries, acetylene for our local welders and metal fabricators and helium for everyones birthday parties!
Our 300-person team is made up of kind individuals who appreciate collaboration, integrity, and constant attention to detail and safety. The work is both challenging and rewarding; and, the science behind it is really cool, too!
If youre ready to be part of a company where your contributions directly impact lives daily, youre confident about your skills and abilities, and you want the opportunity to make a real difference in your community, please apply to be a part of the Maine Oxy team!
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
This is a regional over-the-road route, not a home-daily job. We are upfront about that because the structure is predictable and the weekends are yours.
- Depart Monday morning
- On the road Monday through Thursday/Friday
- Overnights 3 to 4 nights per week, depending on the zone
- Return home on Friday
- Territory is divided into 4 zones, one zone per week, so you cover the same general area all week.
- You stay in a hotel, not a sleeper
What you will do
- Safely deliver helium compressed gas cylinders to scheduled, repeat customers
- Load and unload cylinders and return empties to the fill plant
- Perform daily vehicle safety inspections
- Complete delivery paperwork and maintain DOT compliance
- Build relationships with regular customers and help manage their inventory needs
- Run a scheduled local route delivering cylinders and hard goods, and return empties for refilling
- Perform pre-trip and post-trip inspections and document any issues
- Keep load manifests and vehicle paperwork accurate and balanced with truck counts
- Build good customer relationships and help them stay ahead of their cylinder needs
- Operate a forklift, pallet jack, and other warehouse equipment
- Follow all DOT and OSHA regulations and keep the truck clean and professional
Benefits and Perks
- $3000 sign on bonus
- Home weekends
- Hourly pay
- Steady, full-time day shift position with overtime available
- Paid holidays (seven) plus two floating/flexible holidays
- Year-round position - no seasonal layoffs
- Up to $2,000 (annual) Safe Driving bonus
- Up to $400 (annual) reimbursements for boots and pants
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and long-term disability insurance options available
- Company paid short term disability
- Paid Time Off accrual of up to 120 hours per year, with up to 40 hours that carry over
- 401-K with a 50% match up to 6%
- HSA contribution match up to $50/pay period
- Six weeks of paid parental leave
- Driving incentives
Maine Oxy is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Qualifications
What you need
- Class A CDL with Hazmat endorsement
- 1 year of driving experience or driving school training within the past 4 years
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Ability to read and speak English sufficiently to converse with the public, read highway signs and signals, respond to official inquiries, and complete reports
The work and the truck
- Brand new trailer and tractor
- Routinely lift 25 to 75 lbs, occasionally 76 to 100+ lbs
- Frequent bending, standing, walking, reaching, and handling
- Outdoor work in temperatures from -10 to over 100 degrees
- Ability to detect leaking gas from cylinders by sound or smell
Ready to apply?
If you hold a Class A CDL with Hazmat and want a steady territory route with weekends at home, apply today. We are hiring immediately.
Maine Oxy is an equal opportunity employer. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position. A full list of physical requirements and essential functions is available on request.
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