NO CDL REQUIRED - Entry Level - On-the-Job Training
We are hiring immediately for this Jockey Driver position at the Norfolk Southern Railyard in Harrisburg, PA in a recession-proof industry! This is an entry-level full-time permanent position with on-the-job training. We'll teach you everything you need to know to be successful on the job. No Experience is required. The job is a combination of a Hostler Driver and Ground Person as they are 1 and the same job.
Copy and Paste this Youtube video to see what you'll be doing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uriQMlaUUsI
Starting Rate is $18.57/hr
We're hiring for the below shift start time(s): (These will be ElGHT hour shifts with a mandatory four hour holdover when necessary)
Benefits:
(Medical Starts after 60 days and the first of the month after that. Other benefits start after your 90-day probationary period)
- Affordable Healthcare and Vision Benefits, Free Dental.
- Free Life Insurance.
- 6 paid holidays as well as paid personal days and vacation pay.
- $100 boot reimbursement.
- 401K available.
- Yearly raises.
- Advancement opportunities to become a lift operator, foreman, supervisor, and even management.
Qualifications: (NO RAILROAD EXPERIENCE REQUIRED)
- Must have a valid Driver's License and reliable transportation.
- Pass a 7-year background check. (Felonies in the last 7 yrs, jail time, parole, or probation in the last 5 yrs, or pending charges could disqualify applicants)
- Pass a drug test & a Physical Capabilities Test. **Job includes running heavy equipment and drugs including Cannabis are strictly prohibited**
- No GED or diploma required.
- Strong communication skills required.
APPLICANTS MUST currently live within a 1-hour commute of Harrisburg, PA. OUT OF AREA candidates and/or those requiring relocation will NOT be considered.
Responsibilities: watch this Youtube video to see what you'll be doing
- Drive a jockey truck moving 53ft trailers, containers, and chassis around the yard.
- Various Ground person duties, climbing on and off railcars, locking and unlocking tracks, putting in and taking out inner box connectors (IBCs).
- Assist packer operators in loading and unloading the equipment using hand signals.
- Assist in the process of stacking and unstacking chassis as well as loading and unloading chassis racks.
- Other assigned duties.
Work Locations: Norfolk Southern Harrisburg Railroad PRS Office 4250 Industrial Rd, Harrisburg, PA 17110
This job would be suitable for persons looking for jobs in a warehouse, as a delivery driver, a forklift driver, working outdoors, a laborer, doing landscaping, and working in a railyard.