CDL Driver- Brooklyn NY

Waste Connections • New York, NY

19h • $30 - $34 • Onsite

About The Position

Waste Connections is looking for a safety‑conscious Driver to join our Brooklyn team. This role operates garbage truck routes throughout the borough, ensuring the safe collection, transportation, and disposal of solid waste while delivering reliable service to the community.
Why Choose Us? We are Waste Connections, an integrated services company that provides solid waste collection, transfer, disposal, and recycling services to local residents and businesses throughout the U.S. and Canada. We’re proud to be a different kind of company with a different kind of culture—one where self‑directed, empowered employees have our trust and full support to realize their potential as they strive to make a bigger and better impact on their communities and careers every day.
Waste Connections is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability or protected veteran status. Waste Connections is an integrated solid waste services company that provides solid waste collection, transfer, disposal and recycling services in mostly exclusive and secondary markets. Our goal is to create an environment where self-directed, empowered employees strive to consistently fulfill our constituent commitments and seek to create positive impacts through interactions with customers, communities, and fellow employees.
OUR PEOPLE MEAN EVERYTHING TO US
Waste Connections is always working to protect the health of the communities we serve, and we are grateful for the hard work and dedication that you bring to your job every day. Working here means you are a safety-minded individual who is making important contributions on a daily basis that will make a positive impact on those around you. We appreciate that you are a person of integrity who takes pride in the work you do.
Our Opportunities
BUILD TALENT FROM WITHIN
People who want to gain valuable professional experience will find that Waste Connections is a fantastic place to work. You’ll enjoy the opportunity for beneficial training and professional development opportunities that can help enhance your skills and lead the way to a more promising future.
LET’S REALIZE YOUR GOALS TOGETHER
Bring your passion to succeed and you’ll quickly discover that great opportunities are all around you. At Waste Connections, you’ll thrive if you are friendly, dedicated, and prefer a work hard/play hard culture that is focused on maintaining our reputation as the premier waste services company in the markets we serve. Bring your passion to succeed and you’ll quickly discover that great opportunities and people are all around you. We operate a highly decentralized structure, so we look for energetic individuals who can demonstrate individual initiative and creativity and prefer a work hard/play hard team environment and culture. At Waste Connections, diversity and inclusion are essential to our success. We hire and empower great, capable people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lead with our values. For more than 20 years, we have maintained a culture of safety, integrity and service to build a great place to work. Our culture is built on taking care of each other and the communities we serve.

Requirements

• Valid Class A or B CDL
• Clean driving record
• One year of local route driving experience

Responsibilities

• Safely operate a garbage truck on specified routes to collect solid waste
• Perform regular heavy lifting and climb in and out of the truck throughout the shift
• Read route sheets and service each customer identified or assigned by the dispatcher
• Conduct routine post‑ and pre‑route inspections such as checking fluids, safety equipment, and tires
• Interact professionally and courteously with customers when needed
• Perform other miscellaneous job‑related duties as assigned

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• 401(K) with company match
• Healthcare: Medical, Dental, Vision
• Employee perks: Mental Health Program, Emergency Travel Assistance, Prepaid Legal Plan, Scholarship Opportunities for kids, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Relief Fund
• Insurance: Life, Short‑Term Disability, Long‑Term Disability

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed