Collections Driver

Eurofins; Watford; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company dedicated to making the world safer and healthier. As part of the logistics team, you'll play a crucial role in collecting food and water samples across the UK, ensuring they are handled safely and returned to the laboratory in a timely manner. This full-time position offers a chance to contribute to public health while enjoying a range of employee benefits, including enhanced annual leave and a company pension plan. If you're organized, customer-focused, and have excellent communication skills, this is the opportunity for you!

Benefits

Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement

Company Pension Plan

Life Assurance Scheme

Healthcare Cash Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Health and Wellbeing Programmes

Free parking

Worldwide career opportunities

Qualifications

• Must have a full driving licence with a maximum of 3 points.
• Strong communication and organisational skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Make collections of food and water samples across the UK.
• Ensure safe handling and accurate paperwork for samples.
• Drive company vehicles safely and maintain vehicle condition.

Skills

Customer focused

Highly Organised

Excellent people skills

Communication skills

Education

Full driving licence

Job description

Company Description

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

We’re proud to be an armed forces-friendly place to work and welcome applications from reservists, armed forces veterans (including the wounded, injured and sick), as well as cadet instructors, and military spouses and partners.

If you want to continue to help make our world a safer and healthier place, then apply for the role below and become a part of the extraordinary Eurofins network.

Job Description

Joining Eurofins logistics team, this role will be working out of the Feltham site to make collections of food/water samplesfrom customers around the UK, returning them to the laboratory.

Please note this is a full time permanent role working 45 hours per week - Monday to Friday 14:00 - 23:30.

• Make collections of ambient and chilledfood and water samples from water fromcustomer’s premises throughout the UK to a pre-planned regional route in a timely manner by using a company vehicle with internal chilled units in accordance with company procedures and service levels.
• Make collections of testing kits from hospitals around the UK, returning them to the laboratory.
• The driver is responsible for the safe and appropriate handling of the customer’s samples to ensure they are stowed appropriately within the vehicle.
• Respond positively to route changes that the company feels reasonable for the driver to complete.
• Ensure all paperwork is completed with a high degree of accuracy, with recording of temperature and time records on a daily record sheet and reporting into the Logistics Management team.
• Ensure all information is inputted onto the company tablet where required.
• Keep collection storage rooms clean and tidy at all times.
• Clean fridges and spillages where required.
• Ensure bottle stocks are sufficient within the drop offs.
• Replace and report on faulty probes within fridge units at drop offs.
• Ensure collections are returned to site safely and securely.
• To communicate on a regular basis with the other driver, making them aware of any delays to the meeting time or place.
• The vehicle is to be parked overnight at the normal place of work and any off duty periods unless previously agreed otherwise with the management team.
• Drivers are responsible for carrying out daily and weekly vehicle checks, oil, water etc and reporting any defects in a timely manner to the logistics manager.
• Drivers are responsible for reporting accidents and breakdowns.
• Ensure the vehicle is locked and secure when unattended.
• Promote the Eurofins image by wearing a clean, neat and tidy uniform as provided, and by ensuring your vehicle is maintained in a clean, tidy and serviceable condition.
• Provide a high level of internal and external customer care.
• To partake in any developmental training as required in compliance with the Company Standard.
• Drive Company vehicles in a safe and courteous fashion in accordance with the requirements of the Department of Transport and in compliance with the Highway Code.
• Take all reasonable action to ensure the safety and security of vehicles, equipment, goods, fellow employees and other road users.

Qualifications

• Full driving licence with a maximum of 3 points.
• Customer focused.
• Highly Organised.
• Excellent people and communication skills.
• To be a strong ambassador for the business.

Additional Information

At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.

As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:

• Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement
• Additional Annual Leave Purchase scheme
• Annual Leave Sellback Scheme
• Additional Annual Leave at Employees set service dates
• Company Pension Plan
• Life Assurance Scheme (4 times annual salary)
• Healthcare Cash Plan (6+ months service)
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity Schemes
• Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential
• Health and Wellbeing Programmes
• Free parking
• Worldwide career opportunities
• We also have in place rewards recognising the great work out employees deliver, their dedicated service and celebrating special life events.

What Happens Next

Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it's incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you'll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and it's requirements, this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths.

Your data
As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.

Closing Date
We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date unfortunately, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

We embrace diversity!Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/