CDL Delivery Driver / Service Specialist - Detroit, MI

Baxter; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Baxter's new initiative, Vantive, as a Service Specialist (CDL Delivery Driver) where you will play a crucial role in delivering dialysis products. This physically demanding position requires a CDL and involves working with diverse teams to ensure timely deliveries to patients and dialysis centers, enhancing patient lives nationwide.

Benefits

Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays

Medical, Dental, Disability and Life Insurance coverage

Retirement Savings Plan

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Educational Assistance Plan

Qualifications

• Valid Class A or B Commercial Drivers Licenses (CDL) with Air Brake endorsement.
• Minimum of 1 year of driving comparable equipment with inside delivery experience preferred.
• Ability to maintain driver HOS log using ELD.

Responsibilities

• Safely operate a commercial vehicle to deliver dialysis products.
• Ensure order accuracy and assist with stock rotation.
• Work closely with healthcare professionals and patients.

Skills

Effective verbal communication

Strong social skills

Ability to facilitate teamwork

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

Electronic Logging Device (ELD)

Material handling equipment

Job description

Vantive : A New Company Built On Our Legacy

Baxter is on a journey to separate our ~$5B Kidney Care segment into a standalone company. Vantive

• will build on our nearly 70-year legacy in acute therapies and home and in-center dialysis to provide best-in-class care to the people we serve. We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us.

At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don’t settle for the mediocre. Each of us are driven to help improve patients’ lives worldwide. Join us as we revolutionize kidney care and other vital organ support.

• Completion of the proposed separation of Kidney Care from Baxter into a standalone company (to be named Vantive) remains subject to the satisfaction of customary conditions.

Your role at Baxter

The Service Specialist (CDL Delivery Driver) is responsible for safely operating an 18 to 24-foot commercial vehicle while delivering dialysis products to a diverse home patient base, as well as, kidney dialysis centers. Home patient visits consist of delivering dialysis solution, rotation of stock, and order accuracy assurance with occasional order pick-ups and returns.

Schedule : 4 day work week with weekends off (5am-3pm / 6am-4pm) some overnights

WHAT WE OFFER FROM DAY 1 :

• Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Medical, Dental, Disability and Life Insurance coverage
• Vision and Voluntary Benefits
• Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Flexible Health Care Spending Accounts
• Educational Assistance Plan
• Ability to work overtime

Your team

This position is physically demanding and requires this person to make deliveries in exciting locations as our customer base resides in urban and rural localities. Home deliveries will require the incumbent to deliver up to, and at times in excess of 45 cases per delivery.

The Service Specialist works closely with multiple levels of the supply chain; including but not limited to, dialysis patients, regional office staff, customer service team, and healthcare professionals.

What you'll bring

• Minimum of 21 years of age
• High school diploma or equivalent
• Valid Class A or Class B Commercial Drivers Licenses (CDL) - Air Brake endorsement, MVR check must meet minimum standards as well as understand and follow all DOT rules and requirement
• Valid Medical Card
• Minimum of 1 year of driving comparable equipment with inside delivery experience preferred.
• Ability to maintain driver HOS log using Electronic Logging Device (ELD).
• Perform multiple day routes that include some overnight travel
• Safely operate material handling equipment such as lift gates, ramps, pallet jacks, walkie rider, Liftkar (stair climbers)
• Effective verbal and written communication skills; strong social skills; ability to facilitate and work effectively in diverse, multi-functional teams.
• Follow all safety rules for equipment use and driving outlined by Baxter and DOT
• Ability to adequately distinguish colors to identify product labels

Physical Environment :

• Working environment encompasses all areas of a distribution center, tractor trailer, patient homes, and dialysis centers
• Repetitive lifting and moving of cases weighing up to 50 pounds
• Frequent entering and exiting of vehicle
• Frequent bending, crouching, twisting, reaching, grasping, climbing, and balancing
• Frequent kneeling, squatting and wrist turning
• Work efficiently and effectively in extreme cold and / or extreme heat
• Join us as we revolutionize the treatment landscape and help improve patient lives worldwide.