Environmental Technician and Driver

Earth Smart Environmental Solutions, LLC is hiring an Environmental Technician and Driver in Iowa City, IA. The role involves collecting and transporting hazardous and non-hazardous medical waste from medical centers to disposal facilities. Responsibilities include loading/unloading vehicles, managing routes, and ensuring compliance with regulations. Qualifications include delivery driving experience, a clean driving record, and the ability to handle physical workloads. This is a full-time position with a salary of $22–27 per hour.
We are seeking an Environmental Field Technician and Driver to join our team! You will collect and transport hazardous and non-hazardous medical waste from assigned medical centers as well as related clinics and deliver the waste to an assigned disposal facility.

​Responsibilities:
• Load and unload vehicle
• Inspect and monitor delivery vehicle
• Complete manifests
• Manage assigned routes ensuring customers’ waste is picked up in a timely and accurate manner
• Pick up and transport waste safely according to all federal, state, and local rules and regulations
• Pick up specified waste from each customer site scheduled for the day
• Assist in gathering, labeling, auditing, and proper shipping of assigned customer facilities waste
• Ensure that customers have packaged and prepared the waste according to all federal, state, and local rules and regulations before transporting
• Other Duties as assigned

​Qualifications:
• Experience in delivery driving, customer service, or other related fields
• Experience in materials handling, hazmat, or medical technician a plus
• Clean driving record
• Ability to handle physical workload
• Deadline-oriented
• Education equivalent to graduation from high school
• Previous route management experience is a plus
• Maintain current required driver's license, with an excellent driving record
• Demonstrate good computer skills and knowledge of internet
• Must be able to exert up to 150 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 60 pounds of force frequently and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to lift, push or pull carts weighing as much as 500 pounds
• Subject to initial and random drug and alcohol testing

Company DescriptionEarth Smart Environmental Solutions (ES2) is a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business that provides recycling, reuse and/or disposal of hazardous, universal, medical, pharmaceutical, non-hazardous, and solid waste while meeting or exceeding customer expectations for all of the United States. ES2 follows all local, state, and federal requirements and has maintained zero safety finding or notice of violations. ES2 is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race/color/religion/sex/national origin/veteran/disability/age/sexual orientation/gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law. Service members and veterans, and the spouses and family members of the service members and veterans are encouraged to apply.