Home Removals Foreman HGV driver
White & Co PLC – Dunfermline KY11 8UT
Job description
Overview.
To be a key member of the home removal team reporting to the Branch Manager. To lead the team ensuring the home removal job is completed on time and to the customer’s satisfaction. The HGV Removals Driver will pack customer items in their home, liaise with the customer. Facilitate the safe loading and securing of goods to and from the vehicle. In some circumstances this may be unsupervised therefore they must use their initiative to foresee any potential problems and solve them as they arise. Work will involve travel throughout UK and Europe for which subsistence allowance is provided.
Extensive work away from base with generous subsistence allowance paid.
Main Responsibilities
· Extensive travel away from base throughout UK & Europe
· Act as customer facing representative of the company
· Lead the removal team on site
· Safely drive and be responsible for the HGV vehicle
· Vehicle defect checking and reporting
· Comply with tachograph and WTD legislation
· Lift and manoeuvre furniture and effects safely
· To protect furniture as required with packing materials
To pack personal effects into suitable cartons with protection
· Write inventories of goods moved / shipped
· Complete paperwork for jobs correctly
· Act as banksman for vehicle driver
· To act and behave in accordance with Health and Safety Requirements
· Be able to work aware from home within the UK
· Be able to work away from home within Europe
· To drive company transit van or car, as required
Personal Data
· Physically fit
· Lives local to branch
· Legible handwriting and good verbal communication skills
Education & Training
· HGV Driving Licence
· Driver CPC Qualification card current
· GSCE Maths and English or equivalent standard desirable.
· Attended Basic Practical Course and passed assessment
· Attended Advanced Packing Skills course passed assessment desirable.
· Attended Fork Lift Truck training (desirable)
Practical Knowledge & Experience
· Confident and courteous handling of customers
· Good local geographic knowledge
· Knowledge and compliance of Working Time Regulations
· Ensuring all Company and legal instructions are complied with at all times
· Government or other association organization security cleared (desirable where applicable)
· Understanding of Health & Safety requirements / use of PPE
· Manual Handling Training / Experience
Skills & Personal Attributes
· High personal standards of appearance
· Co-operative and flexible (to work any 5 out of 7 days)
· Polite and courteous
· Have a clean disciplinary record for the previous 12 months
· Able to work efficiently unsupervised
· Conscientious attitude towards work.
· Good interpersonal skills.
· Weekend working as directed.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £35,550 to £55,000+ OTE per year plus £40 (tax free) per night overnight subsistence allowance
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £35,550.00-£55,000.00 per year
Benefits:
Experience:
- lifting home furniture safely: 1 year (preferred)
- packing personal home effects into cartons: 1 year (preferred)
- Driving a Goods Vehicle: 1 year (required)
- driving: 1 year (required)
Licence/Certification:
- HGV licence (required)
- passport (preferred)
- Driver CPC (required)
Willingness to travel:
Work Location: In person
