Express Logistics Driver

Miller’s Recruitment; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading provider of bakery and catering equipment in the UK is looking for a driver to support their installations team. The role involves delivering equipment to various customers, requiring a full UK driving license and potentially a Class 2 HGV. Successful candidates will receive comprehensive training and enjoy a supportive company culture.

Benefits

Company Pension

32 days holiday per year

Job Specific Uniform & tooling for all roles

Company-wide fun days and charity events

Regular staff ‘treats’ for employees and their families

Qualifications

• Full UK driving licence required.
• Availability to work out of normal hours if required.
• Class 2 HGV would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Collection and delivery of food service equipment to retail customers.
• Representing the company in a professional manner.
• Liaising with Installation Engineers for 2-man installs.

Skills

Customer liaison

Time management

Job description

About Us:

We are a leading provider of bakery, catering & powered access equipment, supplying businesses across the UK with high-quality solutions. Our team is passionate about delivering exceptional customer service and ensuring our clients get the most from their equipment.

The Role

Due to continued growth and success an opportunity has arisen for the right individual to join our established installations team and support our large chain of customers. Driving one of our fleets of Mercedes transport vehicles you will be helping to supply our National Supermarket, fast food chain and coffee customers with equipment for their stores.

This will be an express service resulting in short notice travel within the UK with overnight stays being required on occasions with longer commutes.

We have a culture of training at Millers Vanguard, a full training induction will be provided to you in our City and Guilds approved training centre ensuring that you are looked after from day one!

Key Responsibilities:

• The collection and delivery of food service equipment into our retail customers.
• Customer liaison to ensure client satisfaction while representing the company in a professional manner.
• Follow company working policies and practices.
• To carry out ad hoc duties as required by your manager.
• Liaise with Installation Engineers to complete 2 man installs when required.

What We’re Looking For:

• A full UK driving licence.
• Availability to work out of normal hours if required.
• Class 2 HGV would be advantageous.

Company Information

Who are we?
Miller’s Vanguard are proud to have been supporting all the UK’s Supermarket chains for over 40 years, in brief, we are the people in the background ensuring that supermarkets keep the Nation fed! Maintaining a wide and varied range of assets from food production equipment through to loading bay lifts.

Our service are as follows: –

• Nationwide reactive maintenance
• Hygienic Deep cleaning & Planned maintenance services
• Refurbishment, logistics and installation of equipment

We do all of this with the firm foundations of being owned by the global Ali Group, whose turnover is in excess of £4 billion p.a.

Our people
Despite being a large operation here at Miller’s Vanguard we still firmly believe in running the business like we have done for the last 40 years, by valuing our biggest asset we have YOU…the employee.

Our team of over 500 employees have the advantage of working in state-of-the-art working environments: –

• New (2021) Technical response centre
• Award Winning research, Innovation, and recycling facility
• Industry leading Mercedes Benz fleet

We believe in providing you with the very best environment and tools to do the job.

Career Development
Training is also a huge part of our culture here at Miller’s Vanguard and our City and Guilds accredited training centre is where we coach and develop our employees regardless of your position or your length of service, we want to make sure that our staff can progress and keep pace with ever changing equipment technologies.

Why Join Us

• Training in our City & Guilds accredited academy
• Job Specific Uniform & tooling for all roles
• Company wide fun days and charity events
• Company Pension
• 32 days holiday per year
• Regular staff ‘treats’ for employees and their families