7.5T Delivery Driver
Department: Distribution
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Basildon Distribution Centre
Reporting To: Distribution Centre Manager
Compensation: £37,000 - £40,000 / year
Description
Want to drive your career forward at a company where you’re truly valued?
Then we’d love you to join us at ScS as a Delivery Driver. You’ll be part of a supportive team dedicated to bringing smiles to customers’ faces, not just furniture to their door. In a career that rewards hard work with great benefits.
What’s the opportunity?
If you’re all about making the people around you smile and delivering a great service for customers then you could be the perfect for us. All you need in order to apply is a 7.5 tonne vehicle licence, a driver digital tachograph card and the relevant drivers CPC qualification (certificate of professional competence). We’ll sort the rest!
Previous furniture delivery experience can be a benefit, but we find personality and the ability to learn new skills more important.
What does the role involve?
- Delivering and installing furniture in customers’ homes
- Working through a delivery schedule with the support of your crew mate
- Work as part of a wider distribution centre team in helping to load and unload furniture onto our vehicles
- Providing a brilliant service to our customers and encouraging their feedback
- Making sure the team is safe by carrying out checks and driving safely
- Work 44 hours over 4 days with every Sunday off. Flexibility would be required in peak periods
- Heavy lifting
Who are we looking for?
- Previous experience within a driving role
- 7.5 tonne vehicle licence
- Driver digital tachograph card
- Relevant drivers CPC qualification (certificate of professional competence)
- Knowledge and understanding of safety requirements of operating a vehicle and is familiar with the use and regulation of tacographs
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to follow process and procedures
- Strives to achieve the highest level of customer satisfaction
- Physically fit and able to undertake manual handling as this role involves heavy lifting
- Hard working
- Team player
- Experience in a warehouse environment (desirable)
What’s in it for you?
- Basic salary of £37,000.0 with the opportunity to earn £40,000.0 (on target earnings).
- Individual and team bonuses paid annually.
- A five day rest period every three weeks
- Development plan
- 33 days holidays including bank holidays pro rata
- Employee benefits platform – access to 100s of high street discounts and more – holiday discounts, gym discounts, cinema discounts, e-vouchers, cashback and more!
- Colleague Discount
- Career progression
- Long service awards
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Leave
- Access to our dedicated Employee Assistance Programme – to give you free access to advice and information on a range of topics
- Medicash – low cost health plans
- Virtual GP – Access to a GP service 24/7
- Salary finance scheme
- Pension Scheme
- Death in Service
- Life assurance
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Refer a friend scheme
