Job Description

INTERNATIONAL REMOVAL PORTER PACKER TRANSIT VAN DRIVER

If you enjoy working at a different location each day and helping different people move home this could be the job for you! White & Co need punctual, enthusiastic people who enjoy a hard days work moving furniture while being cheery and polite to our customers.

Substantial amount of working away from base and subsidence allowance given. European travel a possibility.

Zero hours contract initially with the opportunity of full time for the right worker and HGV training and salary upgrade for the right worker after probation period.

Overview

To be a key member of the removal team reporting to the Driver Foreman. To support the team ensuring the home removal job is completed on time and to the customer's satisfaction. The Removal Transit Van Driver and Porter Packer will pack customer items and or act as a porter. In some circumstances this may be unsupervised therefore they must use their initiative to foresee any potential problems and solve them as they arise.

Main Responsibilities

Driving transit van

Act as customer facing representative of the company

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

Valid UK driving licence

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

Valid UK driving licence

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

Valid UK driving licence

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.

Further information

The scope of the job is for 5-6 days work each week with immediate start.

Valid UK driving licence required

The work involves packing and protecting personal effects and furniture, loading / handling the effects onto shipping containers, and unloading goods from shipping containers into customer home addresses and unpacking and unwrapping furniture. On the job trading will be provided along with Uniform and PPE.

Salary: Lots of overtime available working 5 days one week then 6 days the next week.

Subsistence allowance working away from base paid tax free in advance at 40 per night.

Job Types: Full-time, Zero hours contract

Pay: 23,400.00-29,858.00 per year

Additional pay:

Bonus scheme Performance bonus Tips
Schedule:

10 hour shift 8 hour shift Day shift Monday to Friday Overtime Weekend availability
Application question(s):

travel away from base at least one week every two weeks
Experience:

driving: 1 year (required) manual furniture handling: 1 year (preferred) packing personal effects into cartons: 1 year (preferred)
Licence/Certification:

transit / car driving licence (required) passport (preferred)
Willingness to travel:

50% (preferred)
Work Location: In person