Laundry Driver & Stores Operative

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services; England; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services is seeking a Laundry Driver & Stores Operative to manage the movement of clean and soiled laundry between Laundry Store and Changing Rooms at Sellafield/LLW sites. You will conduct daily vehicle checks, record faults, and ensure safe loading and unloading across multiple laundry locations.

The role requires a Full UK Category B driving licence, strong communication, and a focus on health, safety and customer service.

Qualifications

• Experience with stock control is beneficial.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Understanding of Health & Safety requirements and safe working practices.
• Strong customer service focus.
• Full UK Category B driving licence with a clean driving record.
• Ability to work independently and in a team.
• Good organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Reliable, flexible and committed to delivering high standards of service.

Responsibilities

• Document daily vehicle inspections and report defects.
• Record vehicle faults on the checklist and escalate as needed.
• Safely load/unload at Non-Active Laundry with security and safety compliance.
• Safely load/unload at Medium Active Laundry with safety compliance.
• Load and unload at Changing Rooms across sites with policy adherence.
• Prepare and load laundry cages for transport.
• Use tail-lift equipment to transfer cages between vehicles and loading areas.
• Ensure efficient collection, delivery and distribution of laundry items.
• Support Laundry Stores operations including stock preparation and inventory monitoring.
• Maintain high housekeeping, safety and security in all areas.

Skills

Stock control

Driving licence

Job description

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Job title: Laundry Driver & Stores Operative

Rate of pay: £14.34 per hour

Position type: Permanent

Type of employment: Full time

Contractual hours: 39 hours per week

Location: Sellafield, Seascale, Cumbria, England CA20 1PG

Job Overview

• To ensure the accurate and timely collection, transportation, and distribution of clean and soiled laundry items between the Laundry Store and Changing Rooms across the Sellafield and Low Level Waste (LLW) sites, maintaining service standards and compliance with contractual and operational requirements.

Main Duties

• To undertake and document daily vehicle inspections in accordance with company policies, procedures, and statutory requirements, reporting any defects promptly to the Laundry Supervisor.
• To accurately record vehicle faults and maintenance issues on the designated vehicle checklist and ensure timely escalation where required.
• To safely load and unload vehicles at the Non-Active Laundry, ensuring full compliance with company procedures, site security protocols, and health and safety requirements.
• To safely load and unload vehicles at the Medium Active Laundry, maintaining compliance with company procedures, site security protocols, and health and safety requirements.
• To load and unload vehicles at Changing Rooms across the Sellafield and Low Level Waste (LLW) sites, ensuring all activities are conducted in accordance with company policies, security arrangements, and health and safety standards.
• To prepare and load laundry cages for transportation, ensuring items are handled securely and efficiently.
• To utilise lifting and lowering tail-lift equipment to safely transfer laundry cages between vehicles and designated loading areas.
• To ensure the efficient collection, delivery, and distribution of laundry items between the Laundry facilities and Changing Rooms, maintaining service levels and operational standards.
• To support Laundry Stores operations, including daily stock preparation, inventory monitoring, and associated administrative activities.
• To maintain high standards of housekeeping, safety, and security within all work areas and during all transportation activities.

What we are looking for

• Previous experience of stock control but not essential.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Understanding of Health & Safety requirements and safe working practices.
• Strong customer service and customer care focus.
• Full UK Category B driving licence with a clean driving record.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
• Good organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Reliable, flexible, and committed to delivering high standards of service.

Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we'll give you a link to our flexible benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme.

Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10,000 - giving peace of mind for your dependants. We also offer a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there's a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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