Local route nonCDL driver

Local Route Truck Driver – NonCDL

Requisition

Job Function:
Field Services Operations

Career Area:
Drivers

Work Location:

Waterloo, IA – Shredding

At Stericycle, we deliver solutions and drive innovations that protect the environment, people, and public health. This includes working to create a more sustainable, shared future. Our innovative solutions make a difference in people's lives, communities, and our planet by protecting their health and well‑being. Change your career. Change your world. Join Stericycle and help protect health and well‑being in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way.

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 include inside and outside cameras. In addition, all vehicles are equipped with an ELD (electronic logging device) and GPS (global positioning system).

• Manage 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.
• Plan daily schedule based on customers' needs by reviewing daily paperwork such as manifest, route sheets, previous VCR, etc., provided by the Transportation Manager/Supervisor or Dispatcher.
• Follow routing software route schedule.
• Prepare and load trucks to service select accounts for the day, ensuring enough supplies are added.
• Unload trucks at various Stericycle and customer sites, including securing waste.
• Pick up specified waste from each customer site scheduled for the day, ensuring 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 Transportation Manager/Supervisor or Dispatcher for resolution. This includes, but is not limited to, re‑routes, adjustments in container sizes, training, etc.
• Ensure waste, supplies, and material‑handling equipment are secured prior to operating the vehicle on public highways (70%).
• Ensure that assigned paperwork is completed legibly, neatly, accurately, and completely and returned to Transportation Supervisor or Dispatcher for processing. Ensure DOT Driver Log is completed, if applicable (10%).
• Communicate with Stericycle Transportation Supervisor and/or Dispatcher regarding any change to route pickups, including address changes, customer not having waste ready for pickup, etc. Ensure that the employee covering for a specific route is aware of any situations outside the norm to provide the highest level of customer service. Report any problems/issues with accounts to Transportation Supervisor and/or Dispatcher before close of business each day (10%).
• Perform pre‑trip and post‑trip maintenance on assigned truck prior to leaving or closing for the day. Report any maintenance problems to Transportation/Dispatcher for follow‑up. Use ELD (electronic logging device) and Geotab to log hours in accordance with DOT guidelines, if applicable (5%).
• Perform other duties and responsibilities, as needed (5%).

Preferred Education:

High School or Equivalent

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• 6+ months of experience, preferably in driving shred/box trucks and route management
• Must be 21 years of age or older
• 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)

Standard driver's license

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, health‑care 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.