Driver- Hospital Services

Gulf Coast Blood; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 36,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career advancement opportunities

Competitive compensation and benefits

Save lives

Job summary

Gulf Coast Blood is seeking a driver for Hospital Services to transport blood from donor sites to the Component Laboratory and deliver blood components to designated locations. The role emphasizes safety, reliability, and punctuality.

Requires a High School diploma or GED, Texas driver license, and at least one year of customer service or professional driving experience. You will complete paperwork, perform inspections, and help ensure quality through careful handling.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED is required.
• Valid Texas Driver's License (TDL) with acceptable driving record.
• Professional driving experience and/or training required.
• Minimum of 1 year of customer service experience required.

Responsibilities

• Deliver blood components to and return from designated locations.
• Perform visual inspections and verify numbering/labeling/appearance of units.
• Place returned units on observation shelves and notify supervisor of abnormalities.
• Complete all required paperwork for consignment and return of blood components.
• Ensure compliance with safety and SOP policies.

Skills

Customer service

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Position Title:

Driver- Hospital Services

DAY SHIFT

Join our team of heroes! Are you looking for more than a job? We are hiring a great driver, customer service oriented, good communication skills, honesty and integrity, is flexible, self-dependent, reliability and time management skills.

The Driver is responsible for transporting blood from donor sites to Component Laboratory and conduct the delivery of blood components to designated locations while maintaining proper record keeping.

This role is great for those who will ensure safety, is efficient, and great with time-management.

Just For You:

• Career advancement opportunities.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Engaging and exciting opportunity to SAVE LIVES.

Tips to thrive in our culture:

• Embody our Core Values of Commitment, Integrity, and Respect
• Work to actively create experiences that inspire others to save lives, each and every day.
• Embrace doing it right, making connections, and creating desired experiences.
• Comply with all organizational policies and standards, including safety rules, and be willing to report actual and potential violations to the appropriate supervisor or manager.

In this role, you will:

• Deliver blood components to and return from designated locations.
• Perform visual inspections and verify numbering/labeling/appearance of all units selected for delivery to ensure quality control standards are met.
• Place returned units on designated observation shelves, notifying supervisor or laboratory personnel of any abnormalities.
• Perform the Stoplight computer check on each consignment delivered to ensure the product is within acceptable date ranges and all products from that consignment are in the delivery.
• Properly complete all required paperwork documents for consignment and return of blood components to designated locations.
• Ensure compliance with acceptability standards as set forth in the Vehicle Safety and Loss Control Policy, Standard Operating Procedures Manual and various other policies, procedures and protocol.

We need someone who has:

• High School Diploma or GED
• Valid Texas Driver's License (TDL) plus acceptable driving record.
• Professional driving experience and/or training required.
• Minimum of 1 year of customer service experience required.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Employees are required to be familiar with and abide by the team lift requirements as specified in the Safety Program. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals, outside weather conditions, extreme cold, and blood and/or blood components, as well as any other biohazard materials. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Job duties involve an inherent potential for mucous membrane or skin contact with blood with a risk of exposure to Hepatitis and HIV.

Who We Are:

Since 1975, Gulf Coast Blood has been one of the nation’s largest community blood centers, serving 170 hospitals across 26 counties. Headquartered in Houston, we support the world’s largest medical complex—the Texas Medical Center—while operating 18 donor centers and hosting more than 7,000 mobile blood drives each year. As an FDA-accredited nonprofit, we provide high-quality human cellular material for both scientific and therapeutic use.

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EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER STATEMENT

Gulf Coast Blood is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants for positions are considered without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, age, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, military status, protected veteran status, disability status, genetic testing results, or any other basis or characteristic prohibited by applicable law, statute, regulation or Executive Order.