Student Veterans of America Jobs

Welcome to SVA’s jobs portal, your one-stop shop for finding the most up to date source of employment opportunities. We have partnered with the National Labor Exchange to provide you this information. You may be looking for part-time employment to supplement your income while you are in school. You might be looking for an internship to add experience to your resume. And you may be completing your training ready to start a new career. This site has all of those types of jobs.

Here are a few things you should know:
  • This site is mobile friendly. You do not need a log-in or password to access information.
  • Jobs on this site are original and unduplicated and come from three sources: the Federal government, state workforce agency job banks, and corporate career websites. All jobs are vetted to ensure there are no scams, training schemes, or phishing.
  • The site is refreshed daily to remove out-of-date content.
  • The newest jobs are listed first, so use the search features to match your interests. You can look for jobs in a specific geographical location, by title or keyword, or you can use the military crosswalk. You may want to do something different from your military career, but you undoubtedly have skills from that occupation that match to a civilian job.

Job Information

Lynden Transport, Inc. Freight Handler - Dock to Driver - DF528 in Fife, Washington

Lynden Transport is hiring for our Dock to Driver Training Program designed to pay for CDL Training for employees who would like to obtain their Class A CDL. Successful candidates will be hired as Freight Operations. While working as Freight Operations the employee will receive training on the dock/yard. During the training period the Service Center Manager will make a determination as to whether the employee is a good candidate for Training Program. The Service Center Manager will work with employee to begin the Training Program. The Training Program will be paid for by Lynden Transport (up to $5500). This is a safety sensitive position.

Once the employee is hired he/she will be responsible for the following Job Description:

Receives, loads, stores and distributes freight as directed. May do so manually or by using forklifts or other equipment. This position is considered safety sensitive.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIESinclude the following. Other duties may be assigned.

- - Loads and unloads trailers, with or without mechanical freight-handling equipment.

- - Ensures that load is secure by using a variety of cargo straps, tarps, ropes, lumber and other tools. This includes proper securement of both flatbeds and vans.

- - May perform lifting, pulling, pushing, and carrying of freight.

- - Loads or unloads materials onto or off of pallets, skids, or lifting device, such as forklifts or other equipment.

- - Positions forks, lifting platform, or other lifting device under, over, or around loaded pallets, skids, boxes, products, or materials or hooks tow trucks to trailer hitch, and transports load to designated area.

- - Unloads and stacks material by raising and lowering lifting device.

- - Moves levers and presses pedals to drive truck and control movement of lifting apparatus

- - Counts, inspects, checks markings on shipments for receiving and/or delivering per the requirements of the bill of lading or other documents.

- - Weighs materials or products and records weight on tags, labels, or in computer system.

Enters information on company computer system

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