Commercial Swing Driver

Description

TITLE: Commercial Swing Driver

DEPARTMENT: Operations 

REPORTS TO: Commercial Supervisor

FLSA STATUS: Non-Exempt

Position Summary:

The Swing Driver, under direction of the Commercial Supervisor, distributes, collects, and empties the company issued commercial waste receptacles (roll off and front load) for new, current, and former Tiger Sanitation customers. 

Essential Functions:

• Performs and documents pre-trip and post-trip inspections of company issued vehicles
•  Runs a commercial sanitation route for roll off or commercial customers, completes container delivery actions and brush collection with a grapple truck as indicated on daily route sheet
• Actively communicates all changes to daily route sheet to the dispatch team
• Notifies supervisor of any incidents, accidents, injuries, or property damage that may occur while completing activities on route
• Reviews and completes daily work orders
• Ensures accurate completion of route sheet and VCR by the end of each day
• Ability to proficiently navigate, in forward and reverse motion, driveways, alleyways, empty lots, high traffic roadways with potential limited overhead and compact areas.
• Ability to operate vehicles in accordance with OSHA (Occupational and Safety Health Act) and DOT (Department of Transportation) requirements as well as all local, state and federal laws
• Proficient in operating a vehicle with a manual transmission
• Other duties as assigned

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Ability to safely operate a DOT vehicle
• Ability to drive a straight truck and truck and trailer combo.
• Ability to push, pull, and lift up to 50 pounds, with or without assistance
• Ability to proficiently operate a DOT vehicle in a reverse motion
• Ability to convey Tiger Sanitation as the obvious choice for our customers, employees and community
• Actively demonstrates Tiger Sanitation’s core values in daily tasks and communications: Professionalism, Respect, Accountability and Communication
• Ability to demonstrate decision making skills that align with Tiger Sanitation’s 4 Step Decision Making Process
• Ability to collaborate with coworkers.
• Ability to prioritize activities in order to achieve, individual and team, expectations and goals.

Education and Experience

• Possess a valid Class A or B Driver’s License.
• Ability to drive a standard transmission, preferred.
• 2 years of professional commercial driving experience preferred.

Working Conditions

This position will be based in an outdoor environment, exposed to the elements, with extended periods of standing, sitting, squatting, climbing, reaching, and lifting. 

An Equal Opportunity Employer disability/veteran