HGV Class 1 Driver
| Posting date: | 21 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 June 2025 |
| Location: | Falkirk, FK2 7YS |
| Company: | Wincanton |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 12654 |
Summary
PERMANENT ROLE – MONDAY TO FRIDAY – £43,195.00 PER ANNUM
Wincanton are recruiting for an HGV Class 1 Lorry Driver to join the team at our Falkirk site. The vehicles you could be driving will be a mix of crane vehicles, drawbar, and rigid crane vehicles.
£43,195.00 per annum
Monday to Friday
48 hours per week
04:00 - 07:00 start times
9.6 hours per day
Overtime available
Home every night/with the option to tramp
How will you contribute?
You will be delivering customer orders to building sites and homes in the region, so you’ll have a positive ‘can do’ attitude with excellent customer service skills and be able to stay calm and professional when challenges arise.
You will operate a crane vehicle ensuring that you maintain the vehicles by cleaning them daily. After all, you are the face of Marshalls.
You will put the customer at the heart of everything you, so ensuring you work to a high level of health and safety and are compliant to specific customer requirements.
You’ll be punctual to ensure on-time deliveries and we offer various day or night shifts with overtime and occasional weekend work offered.
What will you bring?
Must have valid C+E Class 1 licence
Must have valid CPC
Must hold Digital tachograph card
Must not have more than 6 points on licence
Must not have more than 6 points on licence
Experience in cranes/drawbars desirable
HIAB, Palfinger roll loader/fixed mounted cranes experience and brick grab experience would be advantageous
Possess excellent customer facing awareness skills
Good timekeeper and able to work unsupervised
Enthusiastic and reliable with a commitment to delivering first class customer service and a flexible can-do attitude to work
Must have good English communication skills and writing skills
Must have a good geographical knowledge
Benefits include:
Uniform
Pension scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Drivers Awards and recognition
Access to various high street and restaurant discounts
Extensive wellbeing programmes and initiatives accessible to all employees
Continuous training and development opportunities including DCPC and further licenses on completion of probation
For every driver that you refer, you can earn an impressive £1,000 (subject to conditions)
Our Culture & Benefits
In addition to generous renumeration, we really value our people and offer a friendly, safety-first working environment, along with other benefits including company pension scheme, generous holidays, cycle to work scheme, employee benefits include, online discount platform, onsite parking and much more. Our people are at the core of our business and what makes Wincanton great. That’s why we also provide significant opportunities for career development and progression, as well as training enrichment and multi-skilling, in a dynamic working environment.
Be a part of our values; We’re Thoughtful, We’re Aiming High and We’re Prepared.
Our Commitment
We are committed to providing equality of opportunity for all employees. We strive for an environment where all colleagues feel included, supported, and valued, whilst feeling they can be their whole selves within our workplaces. We are proud that our colleagues represent us, and our successes and we welcome your application.
Find out more: Wincanton champions a diverse workforce
About Us
Wincanton is a leading supply chain partner for British business, providing supply chain solutions up and down the country with 20,000 colleagues working across more than 200 sites.
Through a wealth of experience and knowledge Wincanton provides business critical services including storage, handling, and distribution; high volume eFulfilment; retailer ‘dark stores’; two-person home delivery; fleet and transport management; and network optimisation for many of the UK’s best-known companies.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme