LOCATION: Santa Barbara

POSITION Summary:

A Special Services Driver is responsible for providing prompt and courteous removal services for annual, e-waste, bulky items, illegal dumps, and delivery of containers. Work includes exiting at each stop, picking up material, and/or delivery or pickup of containers based on daily work orders. This role will provide the opportunity to gain the experience needed to progress in your career as a commercial driver.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include but are not limited to the following:

QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

Less than high school education; or one year of driving experience or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Doing Good: Maintains and promotes integrity and values in the conduct of all activities.
• Making Good: Takes responsibility and ownership for a problem, project, or issue.
• Treating Our People Well: Proactively seeks and finds ways to provide extraordinary service. Fosters respect for all individuals and points of view. Works cooperatively and effectively with others to achieve common goals characterized by pride, trust, and commitment.
• Observant: Ability to identify safety or operational deficiencies and to quickly implement a correction.
• Safety Matters: Actively participates in creating a safe and healthy workplace for our employees and our customers.
• Environmentally Focused: Takes initiative to preserve and improve our local environment for future generations. Makes everyday Earth Day.

NEAT JOB SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES:

Customer Service, Communication, Dependable, Time Management, Safety Conscious

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

Valid California driver’s license

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Ability to read and write English, interpret documents such as safety rules, operation and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. They should also be able to speak English effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratios, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

REASONING ABILITY:

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

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; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee occasionally is required to sit; squat, kneel and/or crawl. The employee frequently must climb, reach above the shoulder level, and use fine manipulation of hands. The employee constantly must walk, stand, bend at the neck and waist, twist at the neck and waste, grasp (simple and power) and push and pull. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and color vision.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

We are a drug-free & alcohol-free work environment.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and outside weather conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, extreme cold, and extreme heat. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate and dirty. Required to put on protective outfits such as gloves, high visibility gear, hardhat, etc.