Driver Trainee, Customer Delivery Hub

John Lewis & Partners; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading retail company as a Driver Trainee Installer, where you'll undergo a 12-month training program to become a fully qualified Customer Delivery Installer. This role involves delivering and installing various products, providing excellent service, and becoming an ambassador for the John Lewis brand in Glasgow.

Qualifications

• UK B-Category manual driving license with no more than 6-points.
• Able to cope with physical requirements of delivering large items.
• Passion for technology and installation.

Responsibilities

• Deliver products efficiently and quickly while ensuring customer satisfaction.
• Assemble and install products while demonstrating their functionality.
• Maintain a safe working environment and respect customer property.

Skills

Verbal Communication

Manual Driving

Physical Endurance

Technology Aptitude

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About The Role

As a Driver Trainee Installer, you will be supported through our 12-month trainee programme to become a fully qualified John Lewis Customer Delivery Installer with a C1 driving licence. Once you're fully trained, you'll have the unique opportunity of bringing our distinctive John Lewis service right to our customers' door and installing the products they love into their homes (such as furniture, large electrical appliances, sound systems and TV sets) as part of a 2-person delivery crew. Due to its nature, you need to be 18-years or older to work in this role.Due to its nature, you need to be 18-years or older to work in this role.

About The Role

As a Driver Trainee Installer, you will be supported through our 12-month trainee programme to become a fully qualified John Lewis Customer Delivery Installer with a C1 driving licence. Once you're fully trained, you'll have the unique opportunity of bringing our distinctive John Lewis service right to our customers' door and installing the products they love into their homes (such as furniture, large electrical appliances, sound systems and TV sets) as part of a 2-person delivery crew. Due to its nature, you need to be 18-years or older to work in this role.Due to its nature, you need to be 18-years or older to work in this role. Key Responsibilities Once qualified, your day will see you start at the delivery hub you are based before heading out on route. You'll: - Be an ambassador for the John Lewis brand with great customer service as your number one priority. - Help load up your lorry with the days deliveries working alongside the warehouse team. - Demonstrate great respect and courtesy for the customer's home and handle unexpected situations to find the best possible solution for your customers. - Installing products efficiently and quickly for our customers and demonstrating how they work once installed. - Keeping up to date with new products and technologies to help you perform your role at your best. - Maintaining a safe working environment. Essential skills/experience you'll need - UK B-Category manual driving licence with no more than 6-points. - Have great verbal communication skills both over the phone and face to face. - Able to cope with the physical requirements of the role (you will spend a lot of time delivering large items such as sofas, white goods, sports equipment, furniture, beds, and mattresses). - Have a passion for technology and installation. Desirable skills/experience you may have - Previous experience of installation and customary delivery driving.

About The Partnership

We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us.

We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.

As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.

We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.

As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.

Important points to note:

It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). If required, you’ll be informed and provided with information about vetting during the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays. Any DBS checks required will be carried out by a third-party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.

We also recommend that you apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants.

We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Internship

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Retail

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