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By joining the American Red Cross you will touch millions of lives every year and experience the greatness of the human spirit at its best. Are you ready to be part of the world's largest humanitarian network?
Join us—Where your Career is a Force for Good!
Job Description
Use your CDL to save lives. No healthcare experience required – we provide paid training!
Where Your Career is a Force for Good!
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW (Job Overview)
The American Red Cross is seeking CDL drivers who want more than a driving job. In this role, you'll use your commercial driving skills while receiving paid training to become a member of our lifesaving blood collection team. Every day, you'll help transport equipment to blood drives across your community, meet donors whose contributions save lives, and build valuable healthcare skills with one of the nation's most respected humanitarian organizations.
The Red Cross offers paid phlebotomy training with the ability to grow your healthcare skills and career within the nation’s top humanitarian organization. To learn more about being a phlebotomist and the impact you can make in this position, watch this short video: rdcrss.org/lifesavingrole
Pay Information
- Starting rate $25/hour. Pay may increase depending on experience
- Sign On Bonus: $3000
Standard Schedule (Gilbert (Guadalupe)
- Many team members enjoy the variety and flexibility that comes with supporting different community blood drives throughout the region. We provide your schedule two to three weeks in advance.
- Because blood drives occur when donors are available, schedules may include a mix of mornings, evenings, weekends, and some holidays. Overnight travel may be required in select locations.
BENEFITS FOR YOU
As a mission-based organization, we believe our team needs great support to do great work. Our comprehensive package includes:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
- Health Spending Accounts & Flexible Spending Accounts
- PTO: Starting 15 days a year; based on type of job and tenure
- Holidays: 11 paid holidays comprised of six core holidays and five floating holidays
- 401K with up to 6% company match
- Paid Family Leave
- Employee Assistance
- Disability and Insurance: Short + Long Term
- Service Awards and recognition
WHERE YOUR CAREER IS A FORCE FOR GOOD (Key Responsibilities):
- This is a highly active role. Team members assist with loading, unloading, setup, and breakdown of blood drive equipment in addition to driving responsibilities.
- Build relationships with volunteer blood donors and provide excellent customer service.
- Receive paid training to perform blood collections and support donor care.
- Ensure all safety, quality, and regulatory standards are followed.
- Help deliver lifesaving blood products to patients who depend on them.
WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED (Minimum Qualifications)
- High school diploma or equivalent is required
- Customer service experience and effective verbal communication skills are required
- A current, valid driver's license with Class A or B Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) and a good driving record is required. Experience driving large vehicles is strongly preferred.
- DOT certification is required, you must pass applicable DOT physical and related requirements and be able to possess or obtain a medical certification of at least one-year duration.
- Physical requirements may include the ability to lift, push or pull heavy weights up and down ramps and stairs, good manual dexterity, the ability to sit or stand for long periods of time and adapt to long, irregular hours and frequent schedule changes are required. Position may require a minimum height of 60 inches to ensure the ability to safely operate Red Cross vehicles.
- At the American Red Cross, we conduct many mobile blood drives at businesses, schools and many other locations. All staff work as a team to setup and tear down the equipment required to conduct a mobile blood drive.
- Basic computer skills are required. Must be proficient with Microsoft office applications.
WHAT WILL GIVE YOU THE COMPETITIVE EDGE (Preferred Qualifications)
- Prior healthcare or phlebotomy experience (CNA, MA, EMT, etc.)
- Prior leadership experience
Joining The American Red Cross is like nothing else – it’s as much something you feel as something you do. You become a vital part of the world’s largest humanitarian network. Joining a team of welcoming individuals who are exceptional, yet unassuming. Diverse, yet uncompromising in unity. You grow your career within a movement that matters, where success is measured in people helped, communities made whole, and individuals equipped to never stop changing lives and situations for the better.
When you choose to be a force for good, you’ll have mentors who empower your growth along a purposeful career path. You align your life’s work with an ongoing mission that’s bigger than all of us. As you care for others, you’re cared for with competitive compensation and benefits. You join a community that respects who you are away from work as much as what you do while at work.
Apply now! Joining our team will provide you with the opportunity to
make your career a force for good!
The American Red Cross is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, San Diego Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and any other applicable state and local laws.
AmeriCorps, the federal agency that brings people together through service, and its partners — the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps Alums, National Peace Corps Association, and the Service Year Alliance — launched Employers of National Service to connect national service alumni with opportunities in the workforce. American Red Cross is proud to be an EONS partner and share our employment opportunities with the network of organizations.
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