Class A Driver (AWAY FROM HOME WEEKLY) Sign On Bonus!

Maine Oxy•Syracuse, NY

22h•$30 - $32

About The Position

Maine Oxy is looking to fill a full-time Class A Driver position with a Hazmat Endorsement in the Syracuse, NY area. This role involves delivering Helium compressed gas cylinders to customers on scheduled routes in Upstate New York. The position requires overnight travel 3-4 nights per week, a flexible Monday-Friday schedule, and occasional travel to Naugatuck to replenish cylinder supply. Responsibilities include performing pre and post-trip vehicle inspections, maintaining load manifests and electronic logbooks, safely delivering and returning cylinders, filling cylinders at the plant, assisting with loading/unloading, and maintaining good customer relations. The company provides a new International dual axle day cab tractor and a new 32 ft enclosed box trailer with a cylinder lift gate.

Requirements

High School Diploma or equivalent
1 year driving experience or driving school training in the past 4 years
CDL A License with HazMat
Can read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse with the general public, to understand highway traffic signs and signals in the English language, to respond to official inquiries, and to make entries on reports and records
Ability to see, speak and hear
Must be able to drive hazardous cargo for up to 8 hours
Frequent bending is also required
Frequent sitting and standing, walking, using hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; may stoop, kneel, or crouch
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
Ability to perform very heavy work—routinely lift 25lbs to 75lbs, and occasionally lift 76lbs to greater than 100lbs
Must be able to work outdoors in temperatures ranging from -10 to over 100 degrees
Ability to smell/hear leaking gas from cylinders

Responsibilities

Transporting Helium compressed gas cylinders to customers on a scheduled route
Maintaining load manifests, vehicle documents and electronic logbook
Performs pre and post trip vehicle inspections, documenting deficiencies and ensures all safety items are in good working order
Safely delivers Helium cylinders to customers
Returns empty cylinders to fill plant
Fill helium cylinders at the plant and assist in loading and unloading trailers as needed
Maintains Haz Mat load manifests and all other vehicle documents, ensuring they are properly completed and balanced with truck counts and shipping documents before and after all deliveries
Establishes and maintains good customer relations by communicating in person with customers
Identifies and monitors customer needs and works with them to maintain proper cylinder levels to minimize or eliminate emergency deliveries
Operates a forklift, pallet jack and other warehouse equipment
Ensure all safety rules are strictly observed
Complies with all DOT and OSHA regulations
Maintains appropriate drivers’ license and endorsements
Other duties and projects as assigned

Benefits

$2,500 sign-on bonus!
Potential for up to $2,000 annually in Safety Bonuses!
New International dual axle day cab tractor - new 32 ft enclosed box trailer with cylinder lift gate
Full Time Day Shift Position
Hourly Pay
Year-round position (no seasonal layoffs)
Up to an annual $2,000 Safe Driving bonus (paid in parts up to $500 quarterly)
Yearly Reimbursements for Boots (up to $150 for steel toe/composite toe or $250 for steel toe/composite toe with metatarsal guards)
Yearly Reimbursements for Pants (up to $150)
Choice of Medical, Dental, Life Insurance & Long-Term Disability
Company Paid Short Term Disability
401-K with a 50% match up to 6%
Driving Incentives
6 weeks of Parental leave!