Multi Drop Driver

Bidfood UK; Langley Mill; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading food service provider as a Delivery Driver, where you'll play a vital role in delivering quality food products to customers. This physically demanding role requires good organizational skills and a passion for customer service, along with relevant driving qualifications. Enjoy benefits such as a competitive salary, holiday entitlement, and diversity in the workplace.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Pension scheme with matching contributions

Life cover that can be increased

Confidential support and counselling

Health plan for everyday medical costs

High street discounts on various services

Access to pay before payday

Opportunity to buy dental and critical illness cover

Qualifications

• Full driving license (Cat C or C+E) required.
• Must have a digital tachograph driver card.
• Willingness to train for CPC if not already held.

Responsibilities

• Deliver ambient, chilled, and frozen food products to various customers.
• Interact with customers to ensure they receive excellent service.
• Move cages and pallets to transport goods safely.

Skills

Efficiency

Organizational Skills

Customer Service

Education

Category C LGV License

Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC)

Job description

About the role

This is a Tuesday - Saturday role

Where has your journey taken you so far?

• Are you great with people?

• Do you have a passion for delivering great service and hold a full driving licence (Cat C or C+E)?

• Love being on the road, on the move, and keeping your fitness up?

• Looking for a job that’s more than just driving?

Then why not make our journey your journey?

Play an important part in our journey

As a Bidfood Driver, you’ll handle and deliver ambient, chilled and frozen food products to our diverse range of customers. It’s all about moving stock on cages or pallets and unloading the items at our customer premises. But most of all, it’s about providing a service they’ll remember. This means getting to know the people you meet on your routes, making every delivery on time, and meeting the highest safety and legal standards. And if you haven’t already guessed, it’s a physically demanding role - but it’s also a very rewarding one!

Our Drivers make our customers’ lives easier.

We return the favour.

This is a role for Drivers who enjoy meeting people – and delivering a service that makes their customers’ lives easier. Whilst you are caring for our customers, we’ll be caring for you. We will give you supportive, flexible managers, who understand your role, and what you need from them, as well as great tech and equipment. Your shifts will be Tuesday - Saturday, We’re proud of the way we treat our drivers – from the training we give, to the fact that during the pandemic we’ve kept our driving teams together. Join today and be part of our team of drivers who are making history, helping to rebuild the nation and the hospitality sector.

The role

This is not a lonely, long-distance driving role. You will be delivering great food and other catering products to a range of customers throughout the night. These will be a range of restaurants and pubs. Our vehicles are all kitted out with the latest tech, including telematics, but you will have to use plenty of initiative to find the drop off points. Once there, you will be delivering the goods straight to the chefs and managers who make the orders or you will be opening up stores to make deliveries – You’ll also be the one transferring the goods from your lorry to the customer – on cages stacked with pallets. Some orders can be large, so it is a job with a real physical element. Health and safety is our top priority and so we will ensure you will have all the latest training and PPE you will need to carry out these responsibilities safely.

What you’ll need

You will be efficient and organised, you need to enjoy the challenge of being given a lorry full of goods and getting it to the right people at the right time. Personality is key. You will interact with the customers at every drop off – so you’ll need to enjoy meeting them, and doing all you can to make their life easier. In addition, you need to able to move cages and pallets that can be heavy.

Qualifications-wise, you need a category C LGV License. You will also have your digital tachograph driver card and your Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC), or be willing to train for it. We will pay for ongoing CPC development to help you keep these qualifications up to date.

About us

Our journey began back in 1929. Since then, we’ve continued to build a strong and resilient business with a great future. It's why we believe we’re the best foodservice provider in the country.

A journey that gives back

We want your career with us to be as rewarding as possible. So, you’ll get lots in return for your hard work. That includes benefits that can support your wellbeing and financial security, and give you peace of mind.

The essentials

• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) as a minimum and the opportunity to buy more
• A pension - contribute 4% and we’ll match you (after year 1, we’ll match your contributions up to 6%).
• Life cover that you can increase.
• Access to confidential support and counselling, when you need it.
• A health plan that gives you money back on everyday medical costs for all the family, as well as access to a digital GP.

The extras

• Exclusive range of high street discounts including cinema, tech, travel, fashion, food and drink.
• Get paid as you earn - access to up to 20% of your pay before payday.
• Opportunity to buy dental cover and critical illness cover.

We want everyone to join our journey

We’re on a journey towards creating the best possible workplace. We’ve got some way to go, but we’re building a diverse and caring workforce. One that’s filled with forward-thinking people who each bring unique talents and skills. So whatever your life experience, we want you to join us - and you really can come as you are!