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Operations Specialist/ Driver Applicator

Location Grangeville, Idaho Date posted 07/14/2023 Job ID 9513
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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.

  • Job type: Full-time Part-time Seasonal
  • 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

Safety & service

As part of the CHS driver team, safety and customer service matter more than anything:

  • Safety — You’ll be hauling a variety of materials, some of which are hazardous. That’s why you’re required to have certain licensures and why we provide a new or late-model truck with top of the line safety equipment. This is a job where safety always comes first.
  • Service — Once you arrive safely, then it’s all about the customer. You’ll get to know them and become familiar with the unique rhythm of their business. And when it’s harvest time, you’ll go above and beyond because that’s the spirit of a rural community.

Learn more about life at CHS

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 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.

Driver options

  • 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
  • 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)

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.

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life and disability insurance

  • 401(k)/ Retirement Plans

  • 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

Want to make a difference and impact in your local community? Come join CHS, Inc as a Operations Specialist/Driver Applicator in Grangeville, ID today!


In this position, you will:
• Create relationships with local farmers to acquire knowledge on their chemical and fertilizer needs
• Manage your time in the field by operating a sprayer/airflow machine while loading and applying products safely, accurately and efficiently.
• Receive hands on experience and technical skills by handling many types of machinery and routine equipment maintenance.


CHS Offers:
- Competitive Hourly Rate
- Benefit eligible employees receive:
- Medical, Dental, Vision & Life Insurance + Long & Short-Term Disability
- Paid Holidays + Paid Time Off (Vacation & Sick Pay)
- Retirement Benefits - 401K with Company Match; Company Funded Pension; Profit Sharing


This is a great opportunity to work with the largest coop in the U.S, while still making an impact in our local communities. Our fun and safe work environment is waiting for you, apply today!

Responsibilities

  • With limited supervison, apply fertilzer and crop protection products. May include use of a high clearance sprayer or floater.
  • Work with customers in a courteous and professional manner.
  • Educate customers on products being applied to fields, techniques utilized, and how you can continue to support them with products and services.
  • Assist the sales staff in ensuring orders are correct and patron needs are met.
  • Perform warehouse work to including driving loader, forklift, mechanics, and maintenance.
  • Load and unload agricultural inputs from railcars and/or trucks using heavy or light duty machinery/equipment. May include bulk and or packaged material.
  • Pick up and deliver product to customers as needed.
  • Perform general labor responsibilities promptly and efficiently, which may include general maintenance, grounds maintenance, equipment inspection and maintenance, and record keeping.
  • Provide guidance and assistance to more junior team members.
  • Perform other duties as needed or assigned.

Minimum Qualifications (required)

  • 2+ years of experience in Agriculture Production, Operations, and/or Agriculture Application

Additional Qualifications

  • Meet DOT and Company requirements
  • Ability to read, write, and communicate in English
  • Ability to operate machinery such as loaders, conveyors, tractors, and track mobile
  • Ability to work additional hours to meet business demand
  • High School diploma or GED preferred
  • CDL license with Hazmat endorsement or ability to attain one preferred
  • Applicator's license, chemical application education and experience, forklift certification and farming/agriculture background 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 and load up to 75 lbs

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.

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