CDL Driver

Description

Job Type: Full-time

Shift: 50-55 hours a week, home nightly

Compensation: $22.50 - $23.50/hour

Lignetics, Inc., offers clean, renewable solutions. We have 30 years of experience innovating eco-friendly essentials for everyday life. Lignetics manufactures a variety of consumer brands in several different categories including wood pellets for home heating, BBQ pellets for grilling, wood pellets and shavings for animal bedding, and a wood fiber-based cat litter. Each of our products have unique features and benefits but are all linked with a wonderful recycled, renewable, sustainable, and carbon neutral story. We turn recycled sawdust into value-add, branded consumer products.

CDL Driver Job Description

Lignetics, Inc. is in search of skilled, CDL Class A Truck Drivers out of our White Pigeon location. Part-time as well as full-time driver positions are available. Weekday or weekend work is available for part time drivers. Previous commercial driving experience required, with the ability to operate automatic and manual transmissions.

• Operate an 18-wheel Semi and Tractor Trailer trucks with automatic & manual transmissions.

• Responsible for daily completion of all required paperwork such as freight bills, load sheets, electronic logbooks, records of fuel purchases, mileage records, and any other records required for compliance with state and federal regulations.

• Other duties as assigned.

CDL Driver Qualification / Education

• Must be at least 21 years old.

• Must possess a valid Commercial Driver's License with appropriate endorsements.

• Must have a minimum of 1-year previous tractor-trailer driving experience.

• Must have the ability to read, write, and speak English at a level that would allow the communication and comprehension of job-related information, instructions, regulations, signs, maps, MSDS guidelines, required paperwork, memos, etc.

• Must have knowledge of DOT regulations and Federal Motor Carrier Safety regulations governing safe driving, hours of service, inspection, and maintenance.

• Must meet or exceed the medical standards of the U.S. Dept. of Transportation and have a valid DOT Medical Card.

• Must be able to frequently reach for freight at waist level and occasionally reach for freight above shoulder height or below waist level.

• Must be able to occasionally reach above shoulder level, at waist level, and below waist level for maneuvering and directing the controls to operate the truck.

• Must be able to load and unload full trailers of freight. Loading and unloading is dependent upon the customer's requests.

Benefits (Full time drivers):

• Achievable annual & quarterly safety bonuses

• Flexible schedules with the option to be home nightly

• Employee referral bonus program

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance (FSA & HSA options)

• Life insurance, short term & long-term disability

• 401(k) with employer match

• Paid Time Off

• Employee heating pellet program

• Lignetics SWAG gear to include an annual pair of work boots & other PPE

Lignetics believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity (EEO) and does not discriminate against its employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, disability, genetic information, or on any other protected status under state, local or federal law. Equal employment opportunity is extended to all persons in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, discipline, layoff, recall and termination.

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