Hazmat Truck Driver
Overview
CHS drivers spend their days making life easier for their customers – farmers, ranchers, local feed & seed stores, community gas stations and refineries. You’ll know most of the people on your route and you’ll be home most nights for supper.
More than any other role at CHS, you’re the connector. Moving products from sellers to buyers. Transporting supplies from production facilities to customers. Keeping rural America in business from before spring planting starts to well after fall harvest ends.
CHS is one of the biggest names in agriculture and energy. Join our driving team and see where your career takes you.
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Job type: Full-time Part-time Seasonal
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Job level: Mid level
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Success profile
- Having these traits leads to success in any of our driver roles:
- Flexible
- Detail-oriented
- Personable
- Positive
- Quick-thinking
- Responsible
- Safety driven
Quote
I've tried being as safe as I can when I'm out on the road. It's about being aware of your surroundings and following the rules like you're supposed to. I try doing it in the safest and most mistake-free way as I can.
— Lonny Sr hazmat truck driver
Fun fact: Lonny has driven over 3 million miles without a safety incident — the equivalent of driving around the world about 120 times.
Driver options
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Agriculture
- Truck
- Dry van trucks
- Straight trucks
- Licensures
- Class A CDL
- Class B CDL
- Hazmat endorsement preferred
- Route
- Primarily local
- Home most nights
- Customers
- Retail outlets that sell products to large farming operations
- Warehouses that are designed to distribute our packaged goods to retailers
- At the co-op level, working directly with local farmers and ranchers
- Load
- Commercial driving + fill-in warehouse work
- Crop inputs (fertilizer, protection, nutrients)
- Nitrogen, phosphorus, potash
- Palletized products like feed and fertilizer
- Hazardous- license endorsements
- Truck
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Energy
- Truck
- Tankers (multiple load)
- Pressure trailers
- Licensures
- Class A CDL (some positions only require a Class B CDL)
- Hazmat/Tanker endorsement
- 2 years or 200,000 miles of verifiable tractor trailer experience endorsement
- Route
- Primarily regional; some long-haul
- Home most nights
- Customers
- Gas stations, bulk plants (large propane bottle)
- Smaller trucks take to farms and smaller businesses
- Load
- Refined fuels, lubricants, propane and renewable energy products.
- NH3 (Anhydrous Ammonia)
- Truck
Benefits & perks
We offer all of the benefits you’d expect from a large, international employer. Plus, we’ve made sure they’re affordable for every stage of your life — whether you’re early-career and starting a family, late-career and looking ahead to retirement or at any point in between.
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Medical
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Dental
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Vision
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Life and disability insurance
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401(k)/ Retirement Plans
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Military pay differential
Responsibilities
CHS Inc. is a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the United States that provides grain, food and energy resources to businesses and consumers around the world. We serve agriculture customers and consumers across the United States and around the world. Most of our 10,000 employees are in the United States, but today we have employees in 19 countries. At CHS, we are creating connections to empower agriculture.
Summary
CHS has an exciting opportunity in our Automated Fuels Delivery division. We are looking for a full-time CDL Truck Driver in the Fargo, ND area to deliver refined fuels and gas to CHS customer locations in a safe and efficient manner.
*This role is eligible for a $3,000 sign on bonus.
CHS is one of the biggest names in agronomy, energy, and grain processing. Join our driving team and see where your career takes you.
Responsibilities
- Ensure accurate and on time deliveries to our customers in a safe, timely, and professional manner.
- Ensure compliance with all local, state, and federal laws. To include but not limited to pre-trip and post-trip reporting, proper load securement and hours of service.
- Assist in the warehouse when not delivering product.
- Work extended hours in-season to meet business demands.
- Maintain and promote a strong safety culture and follow all safety policies, procedures and regulations. Identify and communicate workplace hazards and correct or seek assistance in correcting unsafe actions or conditions
- Assist warehouse staff and perform other duties as needed or assigned.
Minimum Qualifications (required)
- 2+ years of experience in Supply Chain and Procurement and/or Transportation and Logistics
- High School diploma or GED
- Must meet minimum age requirement
Additional Qualifications
- Class A or B CDL with Hazmat, Tanker and Air Brake endorsements
- Must meet DOT and Company requirements
- Ability to read, write, and communicate in English
- Ability to work additional hours and occasional Saturdays to meet business demands
- Bulk liquid experience preferred
- Pre-employment screening is based on the job requirements and industry guidelines and may or may not be required for the position. If required, selected candidates must pass pre-employment screenings to include all or a combination of drug, criminal, motor vehicle check, physical requirements and FMSCA Clearinghouse.
Physical Requirements
- Ability to lift/carry up to 80 lbs, walk, stand, sit, bend, and kneel
CHS offers a competitive total rewards package. Compensation includes base wage and, depending upon position, may include other earnings such as bonus, incentives and commissions. Actual pay offered will vary based on multiple factors which may include, without limitation, experience, education, training, specialized skills and certifications.
Benefits include medical, dental, vision, wellness programs, life insurance, health and dependent care spending accounts, paid time off, 401(k), pension, profit sharing, short- and long-term disability, tuition reimbursement and adoption assistance, subject to the eligibility requirements for each benefit plan.
CHS is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disability.
Please note that any communication from a CHS recruiter would be sent using a chsinc.com email address. In addition, a CHS recruiter will not ask for confidential information over the phone or in an email, or request money from a candidate involved in an offer process. If you have questions regarding an employment opportunity, please reach out to chscareers@chsinc.com; to verify that the communication is from CHS.
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