Hazmat 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 agronomy, energy and grain processing. Join our driving team and see where your career takes you.
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 Transportation Division. We are looking for a full time CDL A Truck Driver in the Glendive area to deliver refined fuels and propane gas to CHS customer locations in a safe and efficient manner.
This role is eligible for a $3,000 sign on bonus! $1500 will be paid within 30 days, and an additional $1500 will be paid out after a year with CHS.
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
- Complete daily maintenance report and notify supervisor of any needed repairs.
- Complete pre-trip and post-trip inspections as well as loading and unloading products.
- Deliver crop protection and crop nutrient products to customer locations in a safe, punctual, and efficient manner.
- Deliver refined fuels and propane gas to CHS customer locations in a safe, punctual, and efficient manner.
- Follow all guidelines and regulations for hauling bulk liquid products to include, but not limited to Petroleum, Propane, and Anhydrous Ammonia.
- 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.
- Maintain electronic logs and on-board computer with each shipment.
- Perform all pre-trip and post-trip inspections.
- Pick up and deliver product to customers in a safe, timely, and professional manner.
- Provide excellent customer service.
- Report all accidents, traffic violations, and damage to vehicles.
- Driving Tractor Trailer delivering various types of tanker loads to various customers.
- Loading and unloading (hooking up loading arms, hooking and unhooking hoses for unloading).
- Filling out daily load/unload reports.
- Conducting pre and post trip inspections.
- Various duties as assigned (hooking and unhooking etc.).
Minimum Qualifications (required)
- Class A CDL with hazmat and tanker endorsement
- 2+ years experience driving a tractor trailer
Additional Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree preferred in Business, Economics, Manufacturing, Logistics, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Systems Engineering, Statistics or in a related field.
CHS offers a competitive total rewards package. Compensation and benefits are subject to the applicable collective bargaining agreement.
Benefits include medical, dental, vision, wellness programs, life insurance, health and dependent care savings accounts, paid time off, 401(k), pension, and disability, subject to any relevant provisions in the applicable collective bargaining agreement and 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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