Van Driver - Glasgow Depot

William Jackson Food Group Limited; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 12,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Volunteering day

Discounts on products

Cycle to Work Scheme

Charity payroll donations

Employee assistance services

Free meals

Job summary

Wellocks, part of the William Jackson Food Group, is seeking a Van Driver at the Glasgow Depot to deliver orders to customers, ensuring they arrive in perfect condition. You will operate in a depot team, pack crates, follow delivery instructions, and maintain vehicle cleanliness.

The role requires full UK driving licence, understanding of GB hours rules and UK driving laws, and the ability to work 8.5 hours per day across 5 of 6 days including bank holidays.

Qualifications

• Understands GB domestic drivers’ hours rules.
• Understands UK driving laws.
• Holds a Full UK driving licence.
• Able to stand for approximately 8.5 hours per day.
• Reliable and conscientious with good problem solving.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver orders to customers in a timely and courteous manner.
• Pack crates and goods into the vehicle in an organized order.
• Ensure orders match the delivery instructions and raise issues if not.
• Verify invoices at delivery and raise any discrepancies to the depot team.
• Adhere to UK driving laws at all times.
• Complete paperwork within set timescales.
• Debrief with depot management on return to depot.
• Keep the vehicle clean and tidy.

Skills

GB domestic hours

UK driving laws

Full UK licence

Reliability

Problem solving

Communication skills

Job description

Van Driver - Glasgow Depot - £14.30 per hour

This role will require a start time of3am-5amwith a finish time dependent on when your last order in delivered and you return to the depot. You will be working5 out of 6 days Monday to Saturday, inclusive of Bank Holidays.

You will work as part of our Depot Team to ensure that all orders are delivered to our customers in line with requirements ensuring everything arrives in the chef’s kitchen in perfect order.

What you will do:

• Always ensuring that our customer’s received first class customer service during their delivery; interacting with customers in a respectful and professional manner.
• Pack crates and goods into your assigned delivery vehicle in an organised manner that matches the routed manifest in order of delivery.
• Ensure each order is delivered to our customers as per the delivery instructions. If it is not possible to deliver as per the instructions that this is raised immediately to the Depot team.
• When delivering to the customer, ensure that the order is a per the invoice. If there are any issues, ensuring that these are raised to the Depot Team.
• Ensure that you adhere to UK driving laws at all times.
• Complete all paperwork appropriately and within the designated timescales.
• Complete the full de-brief with the depot management team on your return to the depot.
• Ensure that your vehicle is kept clean and tidy at all times in line with the cleaning schedule.

What you will need:

• Good understanding of GB domestic drivers’ hours rule.
• Good understanding of UK driving laws.
• Full UK driving licence.
• As this is a manual role, you will need to be able to be on your feet for 8.5 hour per day.
• You will be working on your own so will need to be reliable and conscientious.
• Strong problem solving skills to assist in minimizing disruption to our customers.
• You will need strong verbal and written communication skills and have an enthusiastic, can do attitude

Let us tell you some more benefits you would receive:

• Fancy volunteering? We will give you one day off a year to take part in volunteering.
• Generous discounts on our products
• Cycle to Work Scheme that offers discounted bikes and cycling equipment.
• Donate through your pay to a charity of your choice. The money is simply deducted through your pay before tax, so for every pound you donate, the 20p that usually goes to tax will go to the charity instead!
• We also have a range of employee assistance services which can be tailored to give you support on various matters such as financial, health and wellbeing advice.
• We treat our teams to a free meal every few months, from our visiting fish & chip van, to freshly made bacon baps from our in-house chefs

About us

Wellocks, is one of the leading UK food distributors in the hospitality industry. We provide fruit, vegetables, dairy, eggs, poultry, meat, store cupboard essentials and everything else chefs will need in their restaurant kitchen. Thanks to our highly skilled team, we also offer pre-prepared veg and freshly-made pasta which is a key part of our service.

From our humble beginnings in 1961 supplying potatoes to local pubs and restaurants, 60 years later we now supply over 1,200 restaurant kitchens across the country with amazing ingredients.

We’re proud to be part of the William Jackson Food Group, a dedicated family‑owned food business which started in 1851. Our sister businesses is Abel & Cole, Jacksons Bakery and Belazu. Family values and the commitment which comes with such a long‑standing business is rooted in our culture here at Wellocks.