CDL Driver- Portable Restroom and Septic Service

JOB TITLE:  Service Technician- Septic

LOCATION:  Santa Barbara

FLSA EMPLOYMENT CLASSIFICATION: Non-Exempt

We are seeking a reliable and safety-focused Commercial Driver with a valid commercial license and septic certification to perform septic system maintenance and portable restroom service. This role involves transporting waste, servicing residential and commercial septic systems, and ensuring compliance with all environmental and safety regulations.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include but are not limited to the following:

• Operate commercial vacuum truck to service portable restroom and septic tanks.
• Provide professional service to pump out residential and commercial septic tanks.
• Observe and note defective septic system components on work order. 
• Comply with rules & regulations on the disposal of waste. 
• Maintain cleanliness of company truck, as well as completing pre-trip and post-trip inspections.
• Maintain telephone contact with dispatch to receive additional instructions, changes to service orders.
• Ensure a safe work environment in compliance with all safety policies and procedures.
• Assist in conducting daily inspection of all tools assigned to the truck to ensure safety and proper working condition. 
• Maintain and complete daily route paperwork in a timely manner for billing purposes.
• Maintain the cleanliness of the assigned truck.

QUALIFICATIONS 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES AND EXPERIENCE: 

• Class A or B CDL with tanker endorsement.
• Minimum 2 years of commercial experience.
• Current septic inspection certification (as required by state/local regulations)
• Ability to drive and operate sanitation vacuum truck safely.
• Knowledge on how septic systems work. 
• The ability to safely lift 75 lb - 100 lb septic lids typically found on septic tanks.
• Must speak English and have the ability to communicate with home and business owners.

CORE COMPETENCIES: 

• Doing Good:  Maintains and promotes integrity and values in conduct of all activities.
• Making Good: Takes responsibility and ownership for a problem, project, or issue.
• Treating Our People Well: Proactively seeks and finds ways to provide extraordinary service. Fosters respect for all individuals and points of view.    Works cooperatively and effectively with others to achieve common goals characterized by pride, trust, and commitment.
• Observant:  Ability to identify safety or operational deficiencies and to quickly implement a correction.
• Safety Matters: Actively participates in creating a safe and healthy workplace for our employees and our customers.
• Environmentally Focused: Takes initiative to preserve and improve our local environment for future generations. Makes every day Earth Day.

NEAT JOB SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES: 

Adaptability, Attention to Detail, Customer Service, Productivity

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Ability to read, write and communicate in English. Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions. Ability to document information on pre-designated forms. 

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATION

• Class A or B commercial license with medical card, tanker endorsement, and clean DMV report required.\
• Septic Inspection certification

PHYSICAL DEMANDS 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee frequently is required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and climb or balance. The employee must frequently get in and out of the truck, frequently lift and/or move up to 75 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

WORK ENVIRONMENT 

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts and toxic or caustic chemicals. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, and outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Required to put on protective outfits such as gloves, safety eyeglasses, safety footwear, coverall, and hardhat. This position requires employee to travel using company vehicle to off-site work locations using company vehicle.