Driver

Activate Group Limited; United States; Remote; USD 38,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days holiday (incl. bank holidays)

Annual pay review

Personal health cash plan

Enhanced parental pay

Life assurance: 3x salary

Free breakfasts and fruit

Birthday surprises

Job summary

Activate Group seeks a Driver for its Birmingham activation team. You will collect and deliver customer and courtesy vehicles, complete documentation, and collect excess payments. You will drive safely, report faults, and ensure paperwork is accurate at handovers.

Role requires a full driving license, logistics experience, and exceptional customer service. You will liaise with reception and bodyshop teams, handle delays, and follow health and safety guidelines to deliver reliable service.

Qualifications

• Full driving licence with the correct classification to carry out duties.
• Logistics experience is essential for coordinating collections/deliveries.
• Experience of vehicle appraisal helps in assessing car condition.
• Exceptional communication and customer service skills are required.
• Interpersonal and communication skills should be excellent.
• Attention to detail is critical for paperwork and handovers.
• The right attitude and time management at each booking are essential.

Responsibilities

• Carry out collection and delivery of customers' vehicles as scheduled, completing all relevant paperwork detailing claims and related damage, and collecting excess payments.
• Drive vehicles safely and report faults or incidents to the Bodyshop Manager without delay.
• Ensure all documentation is correct when transferring vehicles and report any issues.
• Collect payments and receipts, ensuring correct financial procedures are followed on return to the office.
• Collect customer paperwork and check courtesy cars for damage and cleanliness before delivery.
• Notify customer and reception if a delay is imminent and document all details.
• Complete all customer paperwork in presence of the customer, noting vehicle details and damage.
• Adhere to housekeeping and Health & Safety regulations applicable to the role.

Skills

Driving license

Logistics experience

Vehicle appraisal

Customer service

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Attention to detail

Time management

Job description

Timely collection and re-delivery of customer and courtesy vehicles, ensuring the customer is aware of delivery/delays. Vehicle checks and the collection of excess payments. Explaining the repair and processes to the customer. Dealing with customers in a professional manner, ensuring high standards of customer service.,

• Carry out collection and delivery of customers vehicles as scheduled, completing all relevant paperwork detailing claim and non-related damaged and collecting excess payments, ensuring that the customer is treated in a professional and efficient manner.
• To drive vehicles in a safe, lawful manner taking into account the weather and traffic conditions, reporting all faults with vehicles driven.
• Ensure all documentation is correct when transferring vehicles.
• Report any accidents, incidents to your Bodyshop Manager without delay.
• To be responsible for the collection of payments and receipts and to ensure the correct financial procedures are followed on return to the office.
• Collect all necessary customer paperwork from reception, checking courtesy cars for damage and cleanliness before delivery to the customer.
• Confirm any damage or cleanliness issues with reception team.
• Notify customer and reception when a delay is imminent.
• Complete all customer paperwork in presence of customer, noting down vehicle details on both courtesy car and customer vehicle, confirming claim damage and old damage.
• To be aware of and adhere to all the Housekeeping and Health and Safety regulations and policies applicable to your position and working environment. e.g. driving whilst under the influence of sleep-inducing medication, driving vehicles for which you are not insured or trained. Chemicals, fluids and cleaning agents used in the cleaning process.
• To ensure that vehicles comply with safety standards when returned to customers, or that faults have been reported and noted on job card.
• Complete necessary office paperwork - fuel and drivers log
  Full driving license with the correct classification to carryout duties
• Logistics experience
• Experience of vehicle appraisal
• Exceptional communication and customer service skills
• Interpersonal and communication skills should be excellent standard
• Attention to detail
• The right attitude to get the job done
• Time management at each booking is essential
  We're looking for a Driver to join our team, and play a key role at Activate Accident Repair Birmingham.
• Activate Group is a growing UK business approaching 1,000+ team members nationwide. This is an exciting opportunity to build a long-term career with a company that values its people and offers genuine development and progression opportunities. Role Overview, At Activate Group, we want everyone to have the tools and support they need to do their best work. We're an innovative business that continuously reviews and improves our systems, processes and ways of working, making sure they support our teams to do their jobs effectively. Every role at Activate Group is aligned to our wider business vision and purpose - making someone's bad day better. You'll understand how your role contributes to the bigger picture and how your work helps deliver excellent outcomes for customer and partners. We believe work should be enjoyable. We make time to celebrate success, recognise achievements and bring people together at team events and company-wide celebrations. We'll also support your ongoing development through regular feedback and career planning. Whether you're based in one of our contact centres in Halifax, Peterborough or Huddersfield, working at an Activate Accident Repair (AAR) site, or working from home, you'll be part of a supportive culture where people are encouraged to succeed. A bit about us Activate Group is a fast-growing business approaching 1,000 team members nationwide. We work with some of the UK's largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in road incidents through our contact centres in Halifax, Peterborough and Huddersfield. We manage every step of the repair journey - repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair (AAR) body shops, as well as through a UK-wide network of trusted independent repair partners. We also work with the UK's largest vehicle manufacturers, supporting their approved repair programmes, and deliver innovative technology solutions to fleets, vehicle repair centres and dealerships. Our purpose & values Our purpose underpins everything we do: Make someone's bad day better Our values define how we work with our team members, customers and suppliers:
• Make it happen - Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.
• Strive for better - Be bold. Challenge the norm - make small improvements often.
• Win together - Be a team player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.
  33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Annual pay review
• Personal health cash plan - claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups
• Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay
• Life assurance: three times basic salary
• Free breakfasts and fruit
• Birthday surprise for everybody!