Route Driver Med Waste

Stericycle Inc; Indiana, Indianapolis (PA, IN); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Medical Waste Route Driver, where you will play a vital role in ensuring safe and timely waste management. This position offers a unique opportunity to work in a 4-day work week schedule, providing excellent benefits, including healthcare, retirement plans, and more. You will be responsible for managing routes, ensuring compliance with regulations, and delivering exceptional customer service. If you're passionate about making a difference and enjoy driving, this is the perfect opportunity to contribute to health and safety in your community.

Benefits

Health Care Program

401(k) Plan

Tuition Reimbursement

Paid Vacation

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Qualifications

• 6+ months of experience in driving trucks and route management.
• Must have a valid driver's license and excellent driving record.

Responsibilities

• Manage assigned routes ensuring timely waste pickups.
• Provide high-level customer service and communicate issues effectively.

Skills

Route Management

Customer Service

Driving Skills

Regulatory Compliance

Education

High School Diploma

Tools

Electronic Logging Device (ELD)

GPS Systems

Job description

$20.80 per hour! Early Shift! 4 Day Work Week! Great Benefits!

Stericycle is a U.S. based business-to-business services company and leading provider of compliance-based solutions that protects people and brands, promotes health and well-being, and safeguards the environment. Since our founding over 30 years ago, we have grown from a small start-up in medical waste management into a leader across a range of increasingly complex and highly regulated arenas, serving healthcare organizations and commercial businesses of every size. Every day, we help our customers solve complex challenges by safely managing materials that could otherwise spread disease, contaminate the environment, or compromise one's identity. Join us on our mission to protect health and well-being in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way.

Position Purpose:

The Medical Waste Route Driver is responsible for servicing assigned accounts in the most professional way, ensuring that customers' needs are met on a continual basis for various waste pickup and supply delivery. This role will always provide the highest level of customer service possible. They may also transport waste from either a Stericycle location or customer location to a transfer location or processing location. All Company assigned vehicles are equipped with camera telematics which includes inside and outside cameras. In addition, all vehicles are equipped with ELD (electronic logging device) and GPS (global positioning system).

Key Job Activities:

* Manages assigned routes ensuring customers' waste is picked up in a safe, timely, and accurate manner.
* Pick up and transport waste safely according to all federal, state, and local rules and regulations.
* Plans daily schedule based on customers' needs by reviewing daily paperwork, e.g., manifest, route sheets, previous VCR, etc. provided by the Transportation Manager/Supervisor or Dispatcher.
* Follows routing software route schedule.
* May prepare and load trucks to service select accounts for the day ensuring enough supplies are added.
* Required to unload trucks at various Stericycle and customer sites; including ensure securing of waste.
* Pick up specified waste from each customer site scheduled for the day.
* Ensures that customers have packaged and prepared the waste according to all federal, state, and local rules and regulations before transporting.
* Provide the highest level of customer service to assigned accounts daily, communicating any issues to the Transportation Manager/Supervisor or Dispatcher for resolution. This includes, but is not limited to re-routes, adjustments in container sizes, training, etc.
* Ensures waste, supplies, and material handling equipment are secured prior to operating the vehicle on a public highway.

* Ensures that assigned paperwork is completed legibly, neatly, accurately, and completely and returned to Transportation Supervisor or Dispatcher for processing.
* Ensures DOT Driver Log is completed, if applicable
* Communicates with Stericycle Transportation Supervisor and/or Dispatcher regarding any change to route pickups, including address changes, customer not having waste ready for pickup, etc.
* Ensures that employee covering for specific route is aware of any situations outside the norm in order to provide the highest level of customer service.
* Reports any problems/issues with accounts to Transportation Supervisor and/or Dispatcher before the close of business each day.
* Performs pre-trip and post-trip maintenance on assigned trucks prior to leaving or closing for the day.
* Reports any maintenance problems to Transportation/Dispatcher for follow-up.
* Use of ELD (electronic logging device) and Geotab to log hours in accordance with DOT guidelines, if applicable.
* Performs other duties and responsibilities, as needed.

Experience:

* 6+ months of experience, preferably in driving shred/box trucks and route management.
* Must be 21 years of age or older in route management.
* Valid standard driver's license (Class D or above) with an excellent driving record.
* Ability to obtain and retain a valid Medical Examiner Card (MED) route management.
* Stericycle welcomes non-native English speakers, as long as drivers can read and speak English sufficiently to understand highway traffic signs and signals in the English language, to respond to official inquiries, and to make entries on reports and records as required by federal regulation.

Schedule:

Start Time: 5:30am

4-Day Work Week.

Location: 50 Koweba Lane, Indianapolis, IN

Certifications and/or Licenses:

Medical Examiners Certification

Drivers License

Benefits:

Stericycle currently offers its employees the option to participate in a full range of benefits, including a health care program which includes medical, dental, vision and prescription coverage, healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts, life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, an employee assistance program, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation and sick time, a 401(k) plan, and an employee stock purchase plan. Participation in some programs requires that employees be regularly scheduled to work a minimum number of hours and/or to have fulfilled a waiting period after they begin employment with Stericycle.

Our Promise:

Stericycle is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

Disclaimer:

The above description is meant to provide a summary of the nature and level of work being performed; it should not be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and requirements of the job. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, and it does not constitute any right or guarantee of employment condition. This position is open to people with disabilities. Stericycle will consider requests for workplace accommodations for protected physical or mental limitations in accordance with its human resources and risks prevention policies and local laws. To the extent permissible under local law, and consistent with business necessity, Stericycle reserves the right to modify the content formally or informally, either verbally or in writing, at any time with or without advance notice.