Trainee Class 2 Driver

Warburtons; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 1,620,000 - 2,050,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Driver CPC funded training

Early start 3:30am

43-hour week schedule

Profit sharing

Job summary

Warburtons is recruiting a delivery driver at the Basingstoke depot. The role starts with an early 3.30am shift and involves picking orders, loading the vehicle, and delivering bakery products to West London and surrounding areas.

Training for a Class 2 licence is provided at no cost, with ongoing CPC modules during in-work hours. You will join a team that values reliability, customer focus, and safe driving, with a rotating schedule and opportunities for personal development and pension

Qualifications

• Full UK driving licence with no more than 6 points.
• Good knowledge of transport legislation.
• Reliable, responsible and customer focused.
• Preferably with multi-drop or home delivery experience.
• Previous order picking experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Open early start at around 3.30am and maintain steady shift patterns.
• Accurately pick orders from delivery notes or electronic device and load vehicle.
• Deliver bakery products to destinations in a timely and professional manner.
• Work 43 hours a week across a rotating 5 days including weekends.

Skills

UK driving licence

Transport legislation knowledge

Reliable and customer focused

Multi-drop/home delivery experience

Order picking experience

Education

Full UK Driving Licence with <=6 points

Job description

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Salary: £684.70 per week (rising to £866.38 per week upon completion and move into Class 2 position)

Do you have your class B car licence with the desire to further your career and gain your Class 2 licence, with all of the costs of your training and licence taken care of?

To join the Warburtons family, you’ll need a full current UK Driving Licence with no more than 6 points. You’ll also have a good knowledge of transport legislation, be reliable, responsible, customer focused and used to working in a fast paced environment, ideally with multi drop or home delivery experience and ideally previous experience of picking orders.

The Recipe

• Be supported by the driver training teams in an intensive training course, to gain your Class 2 Licence, with no cost to you.
• Ongoing fully funded Driver CPC (Your Driver CPC training is in work hours too, not outside of them)
• Be an early riser. Your shift will start at around 3.30am, so it’s an early start, but your afternoons will be your own.
• You will also enjoy plenty of autonomy. As a driver you’ll be given delivery notes (or an electronic device), from which you’ll accurately pick the orders (either prior to leaving or out on your route) and load your vehicle with bakery products.
• Work set contracted hours and have stable shift patterns. That’s 43 hours a week, working a rotating 5 days including weekends, although a typical week can be less than that. All of which will hopefully help you to plan your life around work more easily.

About Us

Basingstoke Distribution Depot is proud of our One Team culture and the role we play in distributing our freshly baked products to our customers. Basingstoke has around 80 colleagues working across distribution and warehousing from a wide range of nationalities, who support in the delivery of over one million items per week. Our drivers pick and deliver to West London from Watford to Croydon, Including Central London as far as Battersea, Fulham, and Bayswater.

Extra Dough

At last and by no means yeast you will want to know what your breads worth:

• Basic Weekly Pay of £684.70 per week (rising to £866.38 upon completion and move into the Class 2 position)
• A slice of the annual profits (discretionary profit share)
• Ongoing CPC Modules - your Driver CPC training is in work hours too, not outside of them.
• Award winning pension scheme with company contributions up to 7%
• Life assurance
• Products you'll love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website
• Continued investment in your personal development
• Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy with your daily brew!

We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do.