Team Lead/ Senior Driver

Lyreco Group; Hampton Lovett; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 37,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

31 days holiday

Pension & Life Assurance Scheme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Retail vouchers

Eye care vouchers

Volunteer days

Grow Our Own Talent Programme

Referral Scheme

Long Service Awards

Career break after 3 years

Sports & Social Club

Job summary

Lyreco is seeking a Team Leader for the Droitwich team to oversee delivery operations and support the RDC Manager. The role involves directing a team of delivery drivers, ensuring safe loading/unloading, and maintaining high standards of customer service in daily distribution activities.

The ideal candidate will have leadership and supervisory abilities, knowledge of vehicle regulations, scheduling skills, and a proactive approach to staff recruitment and safety checks.

Qualifications

• Supervisory and leadership capabilities to manage a team.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills for customer-facing operations.
• Ability to create schedules, plan workloads and meet deadlines.
• Experience coordinating with drivers and warehouse operations.

Responsibilities

• Support the RDC Manager to manage a team of Delivery Drivers, providing relief cover for holidays, sickness and training when needed.
• Load and unload trucks and deliver orders to customers, maintaining high levels of customer service.
• Assist in unloading/breakdown of pallets and sortation of goods into route order.
• Assist with random vehicle checks ensuring correct items are loaded.
• Undertake weekly vehicle checks for damage and faults and report issues promptly.
• Involve in recruiting new staff members.

Skills

Supervisory skills

Communication skills

Scheduling

Deadline management

Job description

Team Leader

Location – Droitwich

Salary – £34,000 per annum

Hours of Work – Monday to Friday

Contract: Permanent

Lyreco are the market leader in Workplace Solutions and specialise in providing workplace solutions to businesses globally, across a variety of sectors.

Ready to create something great?

At Lyreco, we’re about empowering people to create great – and we’re looking for a Team Leader to join our Droitwich team.

As a Distribution Team Leader your responsibilities are:

• Support the RDC Manager to manage a team of Delivery Drivers, providing relief cover for holidays, sickness and training when needed.
• To load and unload truckers where applicable to deliver orders, which may be furniture or General Office Products, to the customer and maintain a high level of customer service.
• Assist in the unloading / breakdown of pallets and the sortation of goods into route order as required.
• To assist with random vehicle checks making sure that items loaded are correct.
• Undertake weekly vehicle checks for damage, wear, and tear. Report any mechanical faults, GV9 offences or accidents at the earliest opportunity.
• Be involved in recruiting new staff members.

The ideal Distribution Team Leader will:

• Basic knowledge of Highway Code and regulations relating to the operation of delivery vehicles
• Basic working knowledge of tachographs and EU regulations relating to the working time directive.
• Good supervisory and communication skills
• Ability to schedule, plan and meet deadlines.
• This job role requires regular contact with the company’s customer base so excellent customer service and interpersonal skills are essential.

What you’ll get

Alongside a salary of £34,000 per annum , you’ll receive:

• 31 days holiday, inclusive of bank holidays.
• Pension & Life Assurance Scheme.
• Opportunity to participate in the Cycle to Work Scheme, access retail vouchers and eye care vouchers.
• 2 fully paid community volunteering days each year.
• Grow Our Own Talent Programme – promoting internal career development.
• Referral Scheme.
• Long Service Awards – to celebrate your career milestones.
• Opportunity for career break – after 3 yrs of service
• Sports & Social Club – access to discounted trips and excursions.
• All Work to Company Values: Passion, Respect, Agility, Excellence.

Create great with us

At Lyreco, Empowering people to create great is more than our EVP. We want our people to have the opportunity to contribute, develop, share ideas and make an impact.

As a diverse and forward-thinking employer, we embed the principles of equality, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. That includes our staff, customers, suppliers, and our local community. We’re committed to the wellbeing of all our staff and to the sustainability of our environment.

Lyreco prides itself on being an inclusive employer. We value and celebrate equality in opportunities, and we welcome applications from people who reflect the diversity of our communities.