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 agronomy, energy and grain processing. 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
Culture
Quote
I’m carrying hazardous material, so I’m constantly thinking about safety. On average, I only drive 120 to 175 miles a day. I make a lot of short trips back and forth through rural areas, so I’m always on the lookout for farm equipment and school buses and keep a safe distance from them on the road.
— Mark Siefers Driver and recipient of the CHS Transportation Million-Mile Safe Driving Award
Fun fact: Mark has driven over 2 million miles without a safety incident — the equivalent of driving around the world 80 times.
Career path
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Agronomy: Warehouse Operations
- Truck
- Dry van trucks
- Straight trucks
- Load
- Palletized products like feed and fertilizer
- hazardous - license endorsements
- fertilizer and other commodities
- Customers
- Retail outlets that sell products to large farming operations
- Warehouses that are designed to distribute our packaged goods to retailers.
- Licensures
- Minimum Class B CDL, prefer Class A
- Route
- Primarily local
- Truck
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Energy: CHS Transportation
- Truck
- Tankers (multiple load)
- Pressure trailers
- Load
- Refined fuels, lubricants, propane and renewable energy products.
- Customers
- Gas stations, bulk plants (large propane bottle)
- Then smaller trucks take it to farms, and smaller businesses
- Licensures
- Valid Class A CDL with Hazmat/Tanker endorsement
- 2 years or 200,000 miles of verifiable tractor trailer experience endorsement
- Route
- Primarily regional; some long-haul
- Home most nights
- Truck
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Retail: Country Operations
- Truck
- Dry van trucks
- Straight trucks
- Load
- Commercial driving + fill-in warehouse work
- Crop inputs (fertilizer, protection, nutrients)
- Nitrogen, phosphorus, potash
- Customers
- At the co-op level; working directly with local farmers and ranchers
- Licensures
- Class A CDL
- Hazmat, tanker and airbrake endorsements endorsement
- Route
- Home every night
- 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 Inc is looking for a Hazmat Driver to join our team in Grand Forks, ND!
*This role is eligible for a $3,000 sign on bonus.
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)
- 2+ years or 2,000 hours driving experience
- High school diploma or GED
- Class A CDL with hazmat and tanker endorsement, or ability to obtain prior to start date
Physical Requirements
- Ability to pass DOT physical and drug screen
CHS offers a competitive total compensation package. Benefits include Health, Dental, Vision, Hearing, Life Insurance, Health and Day Care Savings Accounts, Paid Vacation, 401K, Company Funded Pension, Profit Sharing, Long and Short Term Disability, Tuition reimbursement, and Adoption assistance.
CHS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Effective January 6, 2020, the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) requires employers to conduct a pre-employment verification full query against the newly established License Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse prior to beginning employment in a position that requires a valid commercial driver’s license (CDL). Candidates seeking employment in a position that requires a commercial motor vehicle license must voluntarily enter their information into the FMCSA and must provide disclosure authorization, at the time of offer, to CHS or an authorized third-party agent of CHS to verify the information.
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