Sr. CDLA Driver Trainer

Sr. CDLA Driver Trainer

Clemens Food Group | Hatfield, PA | On-Site | 1st Shift | Travel: 25% 

Why Join Clemens Food Group?

Great drivers do more than move freight safely, they protect people, equipment, customers, and the reputation of the entire operation.

As a Sr. CDLA Driver Trainer with Clemens Food Group’s PVT team, you’ll play a hands-on role in preparing drivers to succeed from day one and helping experienced drivers continue raising their level of performance. This is a role for someone who understands commercial driving firsthand and can turn that experience into practical, respectful coaching.

You’ll work across the classroom, yard, and road, helping drivers build safer habits, understand expectations, and confidently meet company and regulatory standards.

The Impact You’ll Make

Your work will directly influence driver readiness, safety performance, compliance, and consistency across the transportation operation.

You’ll help new drivers build the right habits early, identify opportunities for improvement during ride-alongs, provide remedial coaching when performance issues arise, and ensure training and certifications are clearly documented.

You’ll also contribute to accident-review activities, helping turn incidents and performance data into practical learning opportunities that reduce future risks.

What You’ll Do

• Train newly hired drivers on Samsara, departmental procedures, required paperwork, and company expectations.
• Coach and retrain drivers who need additional support with driving performance, documentation, procedures, or safety practices.
• Conduct ride-alongs to observe Smith System behaviors, review safety metrics, and evaluate adherence to company standards.
• Facilitate and track yard-skills exercises, including blind-side backing, sight-side backing, curbside deliveries, and related maneuvers.
• Deliver classroom and hands-on training as operational needs require.
• Document ride-alongs, training activities, certifications, and driver-development outcomes.
• Participate in Driver Accident Review Committee activities when requested by PVT management.
• Provide drivers with clear, objective, constructive feedback that improves performance without compromising accountability.

What Makes This Role Exciting?

This isn’t a training job where you spend every day behind a desk.

One day you may be welcoming a new driver and teaching company processes. The next, you may be in the passenger seat evaluating defensive-driving habits, working through backing exercises in the yard, facilitating classroom training, or helping an experienced driver correct a performance issue.

You’ll have the opportunity to combine your commercial-driving expertise with coaching, technology, safety data, and real-time observation.

The challenge is equally clear: successful trainers need to balance patience with accountability. You’ll be expected to address performance concerns professionally, maintain accurate documentation, adapt to different learning styles, and reinforce standards even when the conversation is difficult.

What We’re Looking For

You’ll bring:

• A high school diploma or GED.
• A valid commercial driver’s license.
• At least three years of professional commercial-driving experience.
• A strong safety record and solid understanding of defensive-driving practices.
• Experience training, coaching, or evaluating commercial drivers.
• Experience providing both classroom and hands-on instruction.
• Knowledge of DOT regulations, transportation safety procedures, and required driver documentation.
• Experience with Samsara or a comparable fleet-management or telematics system.
• The ability to evaluate ride-along performance, backing skills, curbside deliveries, and other driving activities.
• Strong verbal, written, presentation, and recordkeeping skills.
• Flexibility to travel approximately 25% and adjust hours when training schedules require it.

Skills & Mindset

Technical credibility matters, but how you coach matters just as much.

You’ll be successful here if you are:

• Patient and constructive while still holding people accountable.
• Comfortable giving clear and objective feedback.
• Confident addressing performance problems directly and professionally.
• Safety-minded and attentive to details others may miss.
• Organized enough to manage training, observations, certifications, and documentation simultaneously.
• Adaptable when schedules and operational priorities change.
• Collaborative when working with drivers, leaders, and safety committees.
• Able to build credibility with experienced commercial drivers while maintaining consistent standards.

Your Future at Clemens

The Sr. Driver Trainer position gives you the opportunity to extend your impact beyond your own driving performance.

You’ll help shape the habits, judgment, and safety practices of other professional drivers while gaining broader exposure to driver development, compliance, safety metrics, accident review, and transportation leadership.

For an experienced commercial driver who enjoys teaching, solving problems, and helping others improve, this role offers a path to turn years of road experience into lasting operational impact.

Agency Statement:

Clemens Food Group does not accept unsolicited resumes from search or staffing firms. All resumes submitted by search or staffing firms to any employee at Clemens Food Group via email, the Internet, or directly without a valid written search agreement for this role, and without having been asked to participate in this by Talent Acquisition, will be deemed the sole property of Clemens Food Group, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired. Firms not authorized to submit candidates will not be eligible for any fee or ownership claim.

EEO Statement:

It is the policy of Clemens Food Group to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. All employees are subject to a pre-employment screening process including a background check and drug screen. In addition, we will provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing the application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to your recruiter.