CDL Driver/Rigger

Location: Hayward, CA

Job Type: Full-Time | Union Position – Teamsters Local 70

Pay: $38.00 per hour

Schedule: Monday – Friday | 6:00am – 2:30pm | Home Daily

Lawson Drayage is looking for a CDL Driver/Rigger to join our Hayward team. This position combines commercial driving with hands-on rigging and machinery moving. You will work as part of a team to safely load, transport, unload, set, and relocate customers' machinery and heavy equipment.

What We're Looking For: Someone who has a valid Class A CDL, is dependable, safety-focused, mechanically inclined, and comfortable with the hands-on rigging and machinery-moving side of the position. This is not strictly a driving role, and candidates should be comfortable working as part of a crew both on and off the truck.

Key Responsibilities

• Communicate with dispatch regarding job scope, daily assignments, and job status.
• Perform pre-trip and post-trip inspections of tractors and trailers.
• Inspect and prepare loads for safe transportation and relocation.
• Determine proper methods for lifting and moving equipment.
• Select, prepare, and inspect appropriate rigging equipment.
• Load and unload semi-trucks, including properly strapping, tying down, and securing loads.
• Set, align, and level heavy machinery and equipment.
• Safely work with overhead lifts, hoists, winches, cranes, jacks, rollers, forklifts, and other rigging equipment.
• Determine equipment weights and identify centers of gravity for items being lifted.
• Move equipment and materials to and from work areas.
• Uncrate materials using power tools and wrap, band, and pack equipment as needed.
• Assist with jobsite setup, including floor protection and equipment staging.
• Maintain clean and organized work areas and return tools and equipment to their appropriate locations.
• Communicate professionally with customers and rigging, construction, engineering, and other on-site teams.
• Break down and inspect rigging equipment after use.
• Inspect equipment and report necessary repairs or remove unsafe equipment from service.
• Follow company and applicable safety procedures.
• Complete and maintain required safety training.
• Maintain professional conduct while working at Lawson and customer locations.
• Perform other duties as assigned.