Van Drivers Upper Poppleton, England
Job description
At Pavers, we have opportunities for 2 Van Drivers to join our Warehouse Distribution Team at our Head Office & Distribution Centre in York, Upper Poppleton, on a full time basis. The positions are offered as a 40 hour per week contract, working Monday to Friday on shifts between 6.30am and 3.30pm, occasional flexibility might be required.
You’ll need a full driver’s licence to apply (the Vans are 3.5 tonne Luton vans so there are no HGV licence requirements) and for insurance reasons, you will need to be over 21. The role will include some heavy lifting at times so a good level of physical fitness is required. Previous delivery driver experience is preferred.
You’ll join a team of drivers who work on rotation and when not driving, you’ll help out in the Warehouse with duties as required. You’ll be a key player in the distribution side of the business to ensure stock arrive safely and timely in our stores throughout the UK!
Role Responsibilities for Van Drivers include:
- Deliver and bring back stock designated for other shops
- Maintain vehicle health checks, i.e. oil levels, tyre depths etc
- Provide cover for van routes
- Comply with road traffic laws
- Process returns (COPS)
- Distribute pre-packed cartons into designated shop packing areas.
- Re-box small cartons into default cartons ready for despatch.
- Count number of cartons for despatch
- Load outgoing shipments onto transport
- Keep Warehouse and surrounding areas clean and tidy
- General Warehouse duties
- Comply with the Company Health & safety policy
- Any other duties required by the Company
Requirements to be one of our Van Drivers:
- Previous experience in Delivery Driving preferred
- Conscientious driver 21+ (for insurance reasons)
- Ideally a clean Driver’s License
- Good communicator with a positive can do attitude
- Good level of physical fitness
- Ability to use initiative
- Team player
- Good level of literacy and numeracy
- Good timekeeping skills
Pay & Benefits for our Van Driver:
Rate of Pay: £10.80 per hour with opportunity to increase to £11.25 per hour following completion of our in house additional training programme.
- Generous Staff Discount
- Free onsite parking
- Holiday Entitlement (Increases with service)
- Company Contribution Pension
- Access to RetailHUB (Wellbeing & Financial Support)
- Access to the Pavers Foundation: an employee-led grant application and charitable giving scheme
- Access to Pavers Academy for Training & Development opportunities
About Us
Pavers has been trading for over 50 years and is a highly profitable family owned-and-run retail business with a strong balance sheet, over 170 retail locations, and a rapidly expanding digital presence. We also own the Jones Bootmaker and Herring Shoes footwear businesses, remain acquisitive, and employ over 1600 people. We were recently recognised by Best Companies as one of the UK’s Top 10 Retail Employers, are Carbon Neutral, have donated more than £1m to charity in the past 3 years, are currently applying for B Corp accreditation, and are imminently undertaking a significant expansion and modernisation of our Warehouse, Head Office, and Retail estates.
At Pavers we are passionate about providing comfort and happiness to our customers, and we make sure to employ people who are as passionate as we are. We always look for happy, confident, upbeat people, and we provide great jobs in a supportive family environment for them. We know that without our colleagues there is no business, and so the better we look after you, the better service you will provide our customers. We always try and do the right thing by our people and in 2021 were recognised at one of the Top 10 Retailers in the country by Best Companies.
We strive for diversity of thinking across the business and believe strongly in supporting our local communities. In 2018 we donated over £2.2m to establish the Pavers Foundation, with the specific purpose of providing grants for causes important to all our colleagues in the areas of health, education, and community. In terms of the environment, we are constantly seeking to reduce our impact. Since 2021 we have been fully carbon neutral, and we also have one of the largest solar arrays in the North-East of England on our warehouse generating clean energy. Because every year we give a percentage of our annual profits to our Foundation, our overarching aim is to be financially successful, but to achieve this in an environmentally and socially responsible manner.
If this sounds like the kind of business you’d like to know more about, we’d love to hear from you - please apply today for the role of Van Driver!
