Part-Time Emergency Driver - Tissue Recovery Van

NORA (Nationwide Organ Recovery Transport Alliance) works with Organ Procurement Organizations, Transplant Centers, Living Donor Networks, and Laboratories throughout the country and is hiring Part Time Drivers with 5-years of verified experience operating police, fire and ambulance vehicles under emergency conditions. You will be transporting medical transplant teams, organs, transplant specimens and tissue donor bodies via suburbans, with lights and sirens, and Tissue donor transport vans retrofitted with dual stretchers and refrigeration.

This is an exciting opportunity to make some extra money in your free time while positively impacting the organ donation and transplant community.

To apply you must have:

Five years documented experience operating a police vehicle, fire engine or ambulance under emergency conditions utilizing red lights and sirens, no exceptions. Retired Police, Fire or career EMS personnel strongly encouraged to apply.

Clean driving record checked on hire and annually.

Clean criminal background.

Part-time position, must be able to work 2 or more 24 hour on-call shifts per week.

Driver will be responsible to transport tissue donor bodies from a donor hospital to the organ donation surgical recovery center. Other work would include organ donation donor samples for testing, import and export organs by ground transport to transplant centers.

We are very committed to hiring the professional staff with a lifetime of community service who can communicate effectively and are able to problem solve and be part of “the solution”. You are part of the transplant team and your actions directly affect the outcomes for transplant recipients on the waiting list. We will treat you with respect and provide you with the classroom and field training, continuing education and the necessary state of the art equipment to be successful in your mission of supporting the organ & tissue donation community and directly affecting the transplant outcomes.

Driver Qualifications

• Minimum 5 Years of experience driving police, fire and/or ambulance vehicles under emergency conditions with red lights and sirens (yellow lights do not qualify)
• Drivers will be on call for 24 hour shifts
• Must be at least 25 years of age
• Live within 30-35 minutes of Lansing
• A clear criminal background check
• A clear state driving record, verified through DMV, reviewed annually
• Pass initial and all random drug testing. (Cannabis, medical or recreational is a rule out)
• Attention to quality, safety and professional customer service

Responsibilities and Duties

• Drivers for tissue donor bodies, organs, specimens and supplies utilizing NORA vehicles for non-emergent organ procurement transportation.
• Training, Uniforms and Badges are provided.

Qualifications and Skills

• Professional and service oriented is a must.
• 5 years driving experience with emergency red lights and sirens.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $50.00 on call plus $32.00 per hour driving time.

$17.00 per hour for training time.