Medical Waste Containers - Class A Driver (5AM - 3PM) - 6442

Daniels Sharpsmart; Model City (NY); On-site; USD 50,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Job stability

Overtime opportunities

Sick and vacation leave

Permanent position with benefits

Job summary

Daniels Sharpsmart, located in Model City, NY, is searching for a motivated driver with a Class A Hazmat license. The role involves collecting and delivering medical waste, ensuring excellent customer service, and complying with safety regulations.

This full-time position offers stable work hours, competitive pay of $28 per hour, and benefits from day one. You will operate modern vehicles across various locations with a focus on safety and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Six months of experience driving tractor trailers and/or straight trucks.
• Experience with DOT compliance and logging driving hours.
• Valid medical card and clean driving record.

Responsibilities

• Collect, deliver, and store medical waste containers at customer sites.
• Operate straight trucks and tractor trailers safely in all conditions.
• Perform pre-trip and post-trip inspections.

Skills

Customer service orientation

Class A Hazmat license

Driving large trucks

DOT compliance

Pre-trip and post-trip vehicle evaluations

Job description

We are seeking an enthusiastic, customer focused driver with a Class A Hazmat license and experience driving large trucks to utilize your experience across the Walton, KY area. You will be collecting sharps and medical waste containers from our healthcare customer locations and delivering a high level of customer service daily. This role offers a high degree of autonomy, stable hours, access to some OT and good benefits. Our vehicle fleet is modern and well‑maintained. We supply above and beyond the standard PPE for safe handling of medical waste and take training of our staff seriously – find out more about how we protect you at https://www.danielshealth.com/covid-19-employees.

Shuttle Locations

• Indianapolis, IN
• Stow, OH
• Taylor, MI
• Huntsville, AL

Responsibilities

• Collect, deliver, and store medical waste containers at customer sites
• Provide professional, courteous service and build positive customer relationships
• Operate straight trucks and tractor trailers safely in all conditions
• Complete routes on time and communicate delays or issues as they arise
• Load and unload containers; organize your truck and day to meet your schedule
• Perform pre‑trip and post‑trip inspections and report issues immediately
• Follow DOT regulations, log hours correctly, and support roadside inspections
• Work with dispatch and teammates to resolve route or customer problems
• Own up to mistakes, report incidents accurately, and follow through on fixes
• Class A license and a clean driving record and valid medical card
• Willingness to run the occasional overnight route
• Willingness to work full‑time hours, approx. 40 hours a week

Qualifications

• Experience with pre‑trip and post‑trip vehicle evaluations
• Six months of driving experience with tractor trailers and/or straight trucks
• Passing our 7 Year FADV review in the Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse
• A flexible, can‑do attitude with a strong customer focus
• Experience operating vehicles in a safe manner (straight trucks and tractor trailers as large as 26 and 53 feet long)
• Experience with DOT compliance, logging hours, roadside inspections
• Confident in a road check level 1 through level 3
• Proven longevity in past employment
• On‑time delivery practices

Benefits

• Job stability – as an essential service to healthcare we are a non‑seasonal and stable business
• Opportunities for overtime
• Consistent work hours – Monday – Friday position 1st Shift. 5am start‑finish
• Full‑time roles are provided benefits, sick leave and vacation leave from day one
• Permanent position – this is a full‑time direct hire role of 40‑45 hours per week
• Competitive salary – this position is offering a non‑negotiable rate of $28 per hour

Who are we?

We are a healthcare service company providing safety systems and regulated waste collections for hospitals and an array of customers within the healthcare industry. Our focus is delivering quality and safety‑focused medical waste management services that reduce needlestick injuries, improve infection control and reduce the environmental footprint of our customers. As a service to our customers we dispose and treat medical waste at our treatment facilities across the U.S.

If this sounds like the role for you, or somebody you know then we look forward to speaking with you!

To find out more of what a day in the life of a driver looks like visit – Driving with Daniels!

Daniels Health & Sharpsmart is an equal‑opportunity employer. In accordance with anti‑discrimination law, it is the purpose of this policy to effectuate these principles and mandates. Daniels Health & Sharpsmart prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Daniels Health & Sharpsmart conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations.

Daniels Health conducts background checks and drug testing as part of the post‑offer hiring process.