Urban Impact offers full time hours!
Being a Driver at Urban Impact can be a fun, educational and rewarding experience. Drivers will learn how to safely and efficiently operate Urban Impact vehicles, the logistics of the recycling business and how the whole process works.
Urban Impact is looking for a physically fit driver with a Class 5 license and knowledge of the Greater Vancouver Area. Ideal candidate must have a valid Class 5 BC driver license with Air Brakes endorsement, with verifiable experience and comfort driving commercial vehicles (et...5-ton trucks ) and in a courteous and professional manner. You have experience with GPS and routing software to plan and follow the efficient routes.You will also have a strong customer service focus, and great people skills. A passion for the environment is a big plus!
Our drivers go the extra mile! Our drivers interact with customers and members of the public daily and have a heightened responsibility to represent our brand, our team members, and values.
The best part about this opportunity is you are home every night!
Watch the video to learn more about your day-to-day job duties.
You must possess a valid BC Class 5 Driver’s License, a clean driver's abstract, and 3 years of driving experience.
Job Title: Class 5 with airbrakes
Date Posted: January 28, 2025
Location: New Westminster
Job Type: Full-time
Shift Schedule: 4 X 10 hour shifts
Rate: $27.88 after probation
Job Requirements
- Must have a valid Class 5 BC driver license with Air Brakes endorsement, with verifiable experience and comfort driving commercial vehicles (et...5-ton trucks)
- Additional Driver Licenses are an asset
- Must be eligible to work in Canada
- Must have sound knowledge of Lower Mainland roadways and experience with GPS and routing software to plan and follow the most efficient routes
- Great customer service skills
- Able to demonstrate safe lifting practices of up to 50 lbs
- Good verbal and interpersonal communication skills
Job Responsibilities
- This position reports directly to the Trucking Supervisor
- Responsible for daily pre and post trip inspections
- Complete an assigned daily route as assigned
- Be able to interact with customers and the public in a professional and positive manner
- Reliable, thorough and committed to performing your job with safety in mind
- Ensure safe operation of a truck, while driving, loading and unloading
- Drive and position vehicle safely at customer pick up locations, ensure safe pick up and lifting of containers
- Daily route consists of driving to customer sites, setting, lifting and emptying bins into front-end vehicle, and returning the bin to the original location
- Ensure assigned routes are completed in a timely and safe manner
- Ensure that all protocols are followed while dumping loads at municipal recycling/waste facilities
- Attend all Safety or Tool Box Meetings, comply with Urban Impact policies and Standard Operating Procedures
Competitive Benefits
We offer a superior compensation package including
- Competitive starting hourly rate
- Pay enhancer after probation and for air brake endorsement
- Performance bonus
- Profit Sharing
- RRSP matching
- Enhanced Health Benefits plan including Medical and Dental coverage
- New Health Savings Account
- Incentives for workplace wellness and health
- And even an incentive for getting to work in an environmentally friendly way!
- All staff must be fully vaccinated
Please note:
- All offers of employment are conditional upon the successful completion of a pre-hire background check.
- Only the short-listed candidates will be contacted.
About Urban Impact
Urban Impact is a dynamic workplace with a culture that values and promotes learning opportunities. We promote within and have a referral bonus program.
We are a close-knit group, all motivated to work diligently to meet the high expectations of our customers. We strive to make the company a rewarding place to work, where employees feel that they are doing meaningful work and their contributions make a difference.
We offer an exciting, motivating and challenging team environment to fully develop your individual potential. To support continuing growth, we are looking for people with ideas, people who make a difference and are focused on being the best.
We would like to thank you for your interest in Urban Impact. Please note that only the short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Offers of employment are dependent upon the satisfactory results arising from the required security screening for this position:
- Review of the National Safety code Driver's Abstract (N Print)
- Reference Verification
- Criminal Records background check
