LGV Driver C&E

Sainsbury's Limited; Northampton; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid holiday

Colleague discount (Sainsbury’s/Argos)

Season ticket loan

Discount card

Love It offers

Job summary

Sainsbury's Limited is recruiting LGV C+E drivers for full-time shifts at Crick Depot, Northampton (NN6 7SL). The role includes delivering goods to RDCs, ensuring loads, adhering to schedules, and maintaining road-legal vehicles.

Strong CPC, UK route knowledge, and excellent communication are essential. Shifts include early and late windows with 45 hours per week, permanent contract, and a generous benefits package including holiday and overtime opportunities.

Qualifications

• Qualified LGV Driver C+E with an up-to-date CPC.
• Minimum of 1 year experience driving LGVs.
• Understand tachograph laws and rules and regulations of the road.
• Good geographic knowledge of UK roads.
• Experience driving articulated vehicles.
• Ability to work without direct supervision.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work efficiently and accurately under pressure.

Responsibilities

• The key part of the role is to deliver goods safely to RDC’s and return to depot according to the plan and adhering to all legal requirements and safety.
• Unlike many driver roles, there is minimal manual handling requirements and minimal store work, focusing mainly on supplier collections and DC deliveries.
• Accountable for understanding and adherence to the route schedule.
• Accountable for ensuring the correct load & paperwork is on board.
• Responsible for ensuring the tractor & trailer unit are road legal.
• Responsible for filling in the check sheets and reporting any defects.
• Responsible for identifying and logging defects into the defect books.
• Responsible for informing the depot of any delays on in their day.
• Responsible for adhering to all tachograph and working time law.
• To act as an ambassador for the company by always driving and behaving responsibly.
• To get the best out of our vehicles by driving with care, forward planning, and fuel efficiency.
• Ensuring load security and safety.

Skills

LGV Driver C+E with CPC

1 year LGV experience

Tachograph rules knowledge

UK road knowledge

Articulated vehicle experience

Self supervision

Communication skills

Working under pressure

Job description

Rate: £19.69 per hour
Location: Crick Depot, Northampton, NN6 7SL
Hours: Full time, 45 hours per week
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Supply Chain & Logistics
Closing date: 3 November 2026
Requisition ID: 400093005

Availability Window
Early shift: 00:01
Late shift: 04:00

We believe in providing meaningful work and achieving a real work/life balance. Here, you'll find both. Our Supply Chain team is the engine room for getting thousands of products from farms and factories to our millions of customers every day. We leverage insight and data to anticipate customer needs, ensuring they get what they want, when they need it.

You'll be part of a team that is data-driven and judgement-focused, always the first to identify and address any issues or ambiguities. A culture of collaboration, customer obsession, and continuous improvement drives us to deliver market-leading product availability and operational excellence, and fuels our innovation.

Our Supply Chain team calls for people who champion change, are customer-obsessed, data-driven, and excel at collaborating and communicating effectively - because those people can go a very long way.

HGV Drivers with a Difference

5 Full Time LGV C+E Drivers with full C.P.C. Qualification Cards wanted on a — shift pattern. All rota’s have guaranteed minimum hours and overtime is regularly available as are regular bonus payment opportunities above basic pay.

Shift pattern will be Friday to Tuesday, with start windows available 00:01-03:00 and 01:00-04:00.

We would like to invite all with an existing HGV1/LGV-C+E license only, to apply for driver vacancies that have arisen in the transport department for Full-Time LGV drivers. 24/7 operation. This position is full-time.

You don’t get to be one of the nation’s largest and most loved supermarkets without a brilliant team — and HGV Drivers like you keep Sainsbury’s moving day in, day out. Fancy joining us?

Being a Sainsbury’s HGV Driver is more than getting goods from Supplier to Depot on time and in perfect condition. It’s about helping your community eat, shop and live better, all while being part of a family that just so happens to be about 200,000-people strong. After all, making the best-quality products available in-store for our customers is what we’re in this for. Just ask the millions of people up and down the country who choose to shop with us every week.

More about you

We would like to hear from you if…

• You are a qualified LGV Driver C+E with an up-to-date CPC qualification.
• You have minimum of 1 year experience driving LGVs
• You understand tachograph laws and rules and regulations of the road.
• You have good geographic knowledge of UK roads.
• You have experience driving articulated vehicles.
• You have an ability to work without direct supervision.
• You have excellent communication skills.
• You have an ability to work efficiently and accurately under pressure.

More about the Role

The key part of the role is to deliver goods safely to RDC’s and return to depot according to the plan and adhering to all legal requirements and safety.

• Unlike many driver roles, there is minimal manual handling requirements and minimal store work, focusing mainly on supplier collections and DC deliveries.
• Accountable for understanding and adherence to the route schedule.
• Accountable for ensuring the correct load & paperwork is on board.
• Responsible for ensuring the tractor & trailer unit are road legal.
• Responsible for filling in the check sheets and reporting any defects.
• Responsible for identifying and logging defects into the defect books.
• Responsible for informing the depot of any delays on in their day.
• Responsible for adhering to all tachograph and working time law.
• To act as an ambassador for the company by always driving and behaving responsibly.
• To get the best out of our vehicles by driving with care, forward planning, and fuel efficiency.
• Ensuring load security and safety.

Hourly Rates: Weekdays range from £19.69ph to £22.51ph, Weekend rates range between £21.73ph and £24.55ph and there is also a 6th Shift £40 bonus payment per completed shift.

Added to competitive rates of pay, the benefits are also great – including paid holiday, colleague discount at Sainsbury’s, Argos, and Habitat after three months. And if a longer-term career is what you’re interested in, there’s nothing stopping you moving on up. We never say no to ambition.

Overtime is readily available, giving the opportunity to work additional shifts frequently to help you budget for those holidays and special events in life.

• Guaranteed minimum hours for all rota patterns.
• 22 days holiday per year, increasing to 25 days after 5 years’ service all pre Bank Holiday’s
• We operate shiny new kit and offer some of the best facilities of any employer.
• Season ticket loan after you’ve completed 12 weeks of service and passed your probation.
• Discount card after 4 weeks that gives you up to 15% off your Sainsbury’s or Argos or Habitat shop.
• Our Love It special offers, including gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more.