HGV Class 1 / Class 2 Driver

Knowles Logistics; March; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics company is looking for HGV Class 1 / Class 2 Drivers in March, UK. The role requires flexible scheduling and excellent customer service skills along with a valid C+E licence and CPC training. Successful candidates will enjoy competitive pay and various shift patterns.

Benefits

Competitive pay rates

Driver incentive bonus

Night out money and meal allowance

In-house CPC training

Qualifications

• Comfortable being based on the road.
• Ability to work to strict deadlines.
• Professional appearance and communication.

Responsibilities

• Providing high standard of customer service.
• Driving with concern for road users and environment.
• Maintaining cleanliness and safety of vehicle.

Skills

Customer Service

Communication

Flexibility

Education

C+E UK Licence

CPC Training

Job description

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Job Title: HGV Class 1 / Class 2 Driver (Tramper, Bulker, Flexi, various shifts, days, nights)


Location: March


Salary: Competitive

Job Type: Full-time, permanent

Who Are Knowles;

We have undoubtedly come a long way since 1932 when Gerald Knowles started off with just one vehicle as a pure and simple distribution provider.

Over the years strong and courageous leadership has led Knowles to become a premium provider across a wide range of logistical services all over the UK.

Today we are trusted by some of the biggest and well-known businesses in the country to offer a broad range of warehousing and distribution services. Our focus today is epitomised by a drive to deliver the most efficient, high-quality logistics solutions to our customers, with long term benefits for both parties. We aim to carry out our operations sustainably and that's not just in minimising our environmental impacts, but by examining efficiencies across the business and fully embracing development opportunities.

This ethos is demonstrated by our commitment to a continual investment program; today this includes producing our own renewable energy and running a fleet of some of the most efficient vehicles available in order to offset our environmental impact.

Requirements:

• Comfortable with being based on the road
• Required to regularly work to tight deadlines that may require additional hours of work at times of pressure
• Flexibility is required during peak periods e.g. Christmas, Easter, etc. and to work additional shifts to cover holiday and sickness
• Ability to work to strict deadlines in a time critical environment
• Professional and courteous when communicating with colleagues or customers
• C+E UK Licence
• Up to date CPC Training
• Ability to multi‐task and work in a fast paced environment
• Excellent verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with Customers and Co‐Workers
• Professional in appearance
• Must have a full UK driving licence and own transportation to work
  
  

Key Accountabilities:

• Providing high standard of customer service and relations to customers and suppliers, ensuring compliance with their site rules and regulations at all times
• Liaising with the Transport desk to make them aware of any potential difficulties or any variations from original brief
• Ensuring that the vehicle is driven at all times with the utmost concern for other road users, pedestrians and the local environments through which you travel
• To accurately complete all documentation required by the Company and the customer
• Ensuring that all Company rules and regulations and compliance with legislation is achieved at all times
• Ensuring that paperwork is checked against consignment, reporting any issues or differences
• To strive to ensure the punctual collection and delivery of all loads
• Ensuring the safety of the vehicle and its load at all times whilst on duty and reporting any defects to the Traffic office/Workshop as soon as identified
• Assisting with the loading and unloading of the vehicle, using lifting equipment where authorised and trained to do so
• To be flexible in terms of starting and finishing times of shifts
• To maintain the cleanliness of the vehicle whilst on duty, leaving the vehicle as you would expect to find it and reporting of any defects immediately
• To undertake any other tasks as reasonably requested by Transport Operator
• To maintain trailer hygiene to the standards set by our customer including sweeping out of the trailers as and when required or instructed.
• This list is not exhaustive and the job holder may be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the position as required.
  
  

Communication

Contact internal customers to resolve any queries or problem that may arise.

Responding to and dealing with both internal and external customer communication by email and telephone and in person

Teamwork

Encouraging teamwork within the workplace by displaying the correct behaviours towards all members of the Knowles Logistics Ltd teams

Maintaining standards of health and safety, hygiene and security in the work environment, for example, ensuring that stock such as chemicals and food are stored safely and securely and reporting of any concerns to the Transport Manager

Benefits;

• Covering local and national contracts.
• Very competitive rates of pay.
• Driver incentive bonus.
• Night out money and meal allowance.
• In house CPC training.
• Various shift patterns to suit all, days and nights.
  
  

If this is you please click Apply and attach your CV and we will be in touch

The company is not able to offer visa therefore candidates must have the right to live and work in the UK in order to be considered.

Candidates not in a commutable distance will not be considered.

Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of; Class 1, Driver, HGV Driver, HGV Class 1 Driver, HGV Class 1, Logistics Driver, Transport Driver, Delivery Driver, Tramper, Bulker Driver, Flexi Driver, Newly passed drivers will all be considered

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage

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