Job Description

Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent
Join us to be an integral part of the Fleet team who are responsible for maintaining and managing the Council's fleet vehicles.
Working across the city, you'll deliver vehicles to various destinations including vans, cars, various C1 category vehicles including a 7.5T Lorry and a 7.5T Hook Skip Lorry. You'll carry out general maintenance and daily checks of the vehicle including oil, water, tyre pressures, battery, vehicle body checks. You'll collect rubbish and unwanted goods and deliver them to the waste transfer station.
With experience of carrying out labouring duties, you'll have a good understanding of health and safety. You'll have experience of utilising tail-lift to assist with deliveries and collections as well loading, unloading, and delivering vehicles. Physically able to carry out the duties, you'll be able to climb ladders and lift heavy objects.
This is a full-time, permanent role, working 37 hours per week from Monday to Friday. It is essential that you hold a full driving licence with C1 category. You'll be based at 88 Leycroft road but will be required to work across various locations in the city, county and occasionally further afield.
What we can offer you
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You'll enjoy generous annual leave and membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme. We'll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including childcare vouchers, discounts on city buses and trains and help with relocation to Leicester, where appropriate. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at out benefits calculator.
Join us
We're committed to recruiting a diverse and highly talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That's why we've designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We'll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the 'our approach to recruitment' page.
For a chat about this post, please feel free to contact Micah Rees at
Interviews will take place on Tuesday 27th January 2026.

Skills Required