Description
Summary:
This role involves operating trucks, providing secure shredding services, and interacting with customers while contributing to a dynamic, team-oriented business culture.
Highlights:
1. Work directly with founders in a dynamic local business
2. Opportunity to make an individual impact on a growing team
3. Focus on customer satisfaction and secure service delivery
Shred Northwest | Boring, Oregon | Full-time
Shred Northwest has earned over 1,100 five-star reviews on Google. Our customers love us, and we're looking for people who fit our culture, strengthen our team, and help us keep earning reviews.
Shred Northwest is a dynamic, privately owned local business. You'll work directly with the founders and know every person on the team — individual effort here really shows. We're looking for hard workers with great attitudes, a good sense of humor, and self-starters who need minimal supervision.
U.S. military veterans are encouraged to apply.
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What You'll Do:
- Arrive on time each morning between 6:00 and 7:00 AM at our operations HQ in Boring, Oregon (typically a 4-day week, 10+ hour shifts)
- Perform a thorough pre-trip inspection on your assigned truck
- Safely operate CDL and non-CDL trucks to customer locations throughout the greater Portland metro and beyond, following route instructions
- Call customers to communicate arrival status, and greet them warmly on-site
- Use a smartphone to record job data and take payments
- Provide secure shredding services using our specified equipment and processes
- Load and unload trucks; move and carry equipment, often up and down stairs
- Estimate job overages and coordinate with the office team
- Complete a thorough post-trip inspection and submit timely, accurate records
- Help maintain equipment, and learn our safety procedures and culture quickly
- Bring a great attitude and go the extra mile
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What You'll Need:
- Current driver's license with an excellent driving record
- 3+ years of driving experience; experience with straight/box trucks and route management preferred
- CDL preferred
- English proficiency sufficient to read highway traffic signs and signals, respond to official inquiries, complete required reports and records, and communicate with customers.
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Physical Requirements:
This is a physically demanding job. Please review the following carefully:
Drivers commonly “handle” via lifting, dumping, rolling, loading, pushing, and pulling 7,000–14,000 lbs of paper in a single shift
Shifts are planned around 10 hours, but traffic and job conditions can run days longer — flexibility on end time is essential
- Must be able to go up and down stairs while carrying materials, and climb in and out of commercial vehicles easily.
- Must be able to move and walk safely, with energy and purpose, throughout the shift
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Security & Compliance Requirements
Secure destruction is the core of what we do, and protecting our customers' information is a serious responsibility. All drivers must:
- Complete periodic security training
- Pass a comprehensive initial and ongoing criminal background screening
- Pass pre-employment and ongoing drug testing (including for marijuana/cannabis)
- Sign a confidentiality agreement with Shred Northwest, Inc.
- Maintain a clean driving record throughout employment
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Benefits:
- Competitive wages
- Medical, vision, dental, chiropractic, and massage benefits
- 401(k) with 3% employer contribution
- Competitive vacation accrual
- Wellness perks
- Flexibility for time-off requests