Job Description

Joining our friendly and hard working family as a Relief HGV Driver Class 2, you'll be on the front line dealing with our customers both in branch and off site (when making deliveries); playing a vital role in our continued success, providing a first class service whilst keeping colleagues and customers safe at all times. Providing driving cover for branch driver holidays, absences and peak trade.
What's in it for you?
Sociable hours: Monday to Friday only
Full-time, permanent hours: Employed directly with Travis Perkins.
Competitive salary: Plus quarterly bonus + regional relief driver allowance + travel expenses
Periodic CPC training: Fully funded and arranged by the branch.
Staff discounts: Enjoy 20% off at Toolstation and across our Group businesses.
22 days holiday + bank holidays: Plus yearly pay reviews to recognise and reward commitment.
Share schemes: Potential profit from selling shares of the business.
Company pension: Flexible contribution options.
Driver of the Year Awards: Celebrating and rewarding top drivers.
Ongoing development: We're committed to your career progression, with many of our managers and directors having started in similar roles.
What will you be doing?
You'll be delivering building materials from our branch to local customers, making sure everything's safe and sound. You'll load up your vehicle with the HIAB, double-check it's all properly packed and legal, and then hit the road. As our face on the road, you'll keep it professional while making around 14 drops a day, then head back to the branch to reload when needed.
Who you are
Requirements: You'll need a Class 2 driving license, up-to-date CPC records, and 12+ months of driving experience.
HIAB experience: Don't have HIAB experience? No problem! We'll fund your HIAB training.
Customer-focused: You'll be confident building and developing relationships with customers.
Safety-focused: You'll prioritise safety in every aspect of your work, completing tasks in a professional manner.
What will I be doing?
No one day is the same as the next in TP branch life, but here are a few pointers:

• Our success is built on strong relationships so it's essential that you can help deliver the highest standards of service - the key thing is to be helpful and friendly, as you will likely get to know our customers on a first name basis.
• Driving our transit and flatbed vehicles (up to 3.5 ton) you will carry out multi-drop deliveries from our branch direct to our local customers and be responsible for ensuring they receive their orders on time and in one piece, safely, every time.
• Safety is at the forefront of everything we do, your aim will be to ensure that our standards never slip, by adhering to all stay safe policies and procedures especially whilst unloading, loading and driving our vehicles.
• Want a work life balance - Our working hours are Monday to Friday between the hours of 7am - 4.30pm, every other Saturday 8am - 12pm.

Does this sound like you?
We hope you can say 'Yes' to all of the characteristics below - they are in the DNA of all our fantastic Relief HGV Drivers.
Are you:

• Someone that is highly adaptable, resilient and tenacious with high levels of energy and drive.
• Someone who thrives in a dynamic and fast paced environment.
• Someone with the ability to work under pressure efficiently and safely and a flexible attitude to work.
• Someone who is as comfortable working in branch as they are out on the road

You'll also receive Competitive pay + Benefits (which includes a colleague bonus, contributory pension, private healthcare, life assurance, sharesave scheme, group wide colleague discounts across the Travis Perkins Group (including Toolstation). Plus we have a number of online discounts at leading retailers from airport parking to theme parks to eating out and cinemas. Our working hours also offer a great work life balance - most of our customers choose to enjoy their weekends and bank holidays which means you can too!
You may not know much about Travis Perkins, but if you look a bit closer you might be surprised, despite our size, we have the values of a family run business and the mindset and ambition of a forward thinking Company. We pride ourselves on being a great place to work that's why we have been voted one of the UK's Top Employers every year since 2010. We offer our employees access to extensive career opportunities across our 5 leading businesses. We operate out of more than 1400 outlets nationwide and have over 20,000 colleagues.
We're driving to become a truly inclusive employer. We want everyone to be at their best and it's our ambition that everyone within our Group feels safe, welcome and confident to be their authentic selves.
You be you, it makes us, us.
#TP/BC/Untiered

Travis Perkins