Dental Mobile Unit Driver
"Follow Your Calling, Find Your Career"
Salary Range: $20.00 - $24.71
This is a non-exempt (hourly) position
Pay rates are based on education, skill, experience level and internal equity.Internal equity considerations include an assessment of the applicant's salaryhistory and qualifications in comparison to the market rate and requirementsfor the job.
This is a part time role. Schedule isTuesday/Wednesday/Thursday from 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM and Friday from 7:30 AM to12:00PM (29 total hours/week)
About Us
At Mecklenburg County, you'll have the chance to build a career as unique asyou are with support, inclusive culture and technology to become the bestversion of you. We're counting on YOUR unique voice and perspective to helpMecklenburg County Public Health become even better, too. Join usand build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a healthier world forall.
As a member of the Mecklenburg County Public Health team, you will become asubject matter expert in the public health field. The CDC foundationexplains that "Public health is the science of protecting and improving thehealth of people and their communities. This work is achieved bypromoting health lifestyles, researching disease and injury prevention,detecting, preventing, and responding to infectious disease".
Come be a part of Mecklenburg County's Public Health department's vision to"assure the health and safety of our diverse and changing community today andfor future generations."
Position Summary
Understand and comply with traffic laws and regulations
Employ radio communication with dispatch
Read and interpret road maps/GPS system
Maintain accurate trip records either on paper or electronically
Perform basic vehicle maintenance-daily inspections of the vehicle, fuel check,and electric power
Before leaving the facility, the driver should perform a daily pre-check of thevehicle's maintenance, including ensuring it's properly fueled and thatmaintenance is performed as recommended.
The driver should perform weekly cleaning and maintenance of the vehicle,including emptying water and sewer tanks and filling water storage tanks asneeded.
Assist passengers and/or employees with boarding, in-transit, and de-boardingas needed
Driving mobile vehicle to and from scheduled visits, setting up and taking downthe vehicle at each site
The driver should park, set up, level, hook up, and tear down the unit daily,and return it to its designated location each day.
Minimum Qualifications
Experience: Minimum of one year of experience driving a commercialvehicle, or successful completion of Central Piedmont Community College orapproved driving school's CDL Driving Program. Must have an acceptable drivingrecord per County standards.
Education: High School Diploma or equivalent.
Combination of relevant education and relevant experience accepted?: Yes
Licenses and Certifications
• Requires a valid North Carolina or South Carolina Driver's License
• Requires County Driving Privileges
• Annual Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) check required
• Depending on the area of assignment, may require a Class A or B CDL with oneor more of the following endorsements, H(Hazardous Materials), N(Tank Vehicle),P (Passenger Transport), S (School Bus/Passenger Transport), T(Double/Triples), or X (Tanker and hazardous Materials)
Preferred Qualifications
• Bilingual (Spanish and English) proficiency oral and written Knowledge,
• CDL preferred
Skills and Abilities
Knowledge of
• Thorough knowledge of traffic laws and regulations governing operation ofassigned vehicle.
Skills
• Customer relations, communication and interpersonal skills.
Abilities
• Customer Focus: Ensuring that the customer perspective is a driving forcebehind business decisions and activities; crafting and implementing servicepractices that meet customers' and own organization's needs.
• Engagement Readiness: Demonstrating a willingness to commit to one's work andto invest one's time, talent, and best efforts in accomplishing organizationalgoals
• Safety Awareness: Identifying and correcting conditions that affect employeesafety; upholding safety standards.
• Safety Intervention: Having knowledge of conditions that affect patient,self, and/or employee safety under normal conditions and conditions that occurin crisis situations; skilled in identifying conditions that might cause healthor safety hazards and takes action to remove such hazards; understands allaspects of providing a safe environment for patient, self, and/or others incrisis.
• Work Standards: Setting high standards of performance for self and others;assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completingassignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence rather than havingstandards imposed.
• Organization / Job Fit: The extent to which an organization's mode ofoperation and values are consistent with the type of environment that providespersonal satisfaction. The extent to which activities and responsibilitiesavailable in the job are consistent with the activities and responsibilitiesthat result in personal satisfaction; the degree to which the work itself ispersonally satisfying.
• Technical Skills: Having achieved a satisfactory level of technical andprofessional skill or knowledge in position-related areas; keeping up withcurrent developments and trends in areas of expertise.
Computer Skills
• Basic computer skills
Reasonable Accommodations Statement
To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform,with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential functionsatisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualifiedindividuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Disclaimer Statement
This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job-relatedresponsibilities, duties, skills, requirements or working conditions. Otherduties may be assigned based on business need and the supervisor's request.Mecklenburg County reserves the right to revise the job description at anytime. Designated positions may be required to assist in emergency and/ordisaster situations.