Class 2 Driver

Job Title: Class 2 Driver
Reports to: Warehouse & Distribution Manager
Depot: LWC Leyland

Overview:

To deliver products to customers within a specific area in a safe and friendly manner. Responsible for the care and upkeep of your designated vehicle. To provide excellent customer service standards to every customer.

Main Duties:

• The responsibility of preparing the vehicle by conducting operator maintenance, ensuring all products for a delivery are correct and that they have been loaded onto the vehicle correctly and safely.
• Responsible for completing delivery notes, return sheets and collecting payments.
• Execute any special requests from customers by picking up and delivering items as directed on the delivery note.
• Maintain customer confidence by keeping information strictly confidential regarding premise security and operational information.
• Responsibility for checking the run sheets, picking orders for your deliveries and routing.
• To plan your route and requirements for the drop by studying the schedule and any requests by the customer that are on the delivery note.
• Make customers aware of any stock shortages or problems with their delivery.
• Responsible for returning all empty cases and gas bottles, and ensuring that they are correctly stored in the empties yard and unloaded in the correct manner.
• Ensure that correct health and safety procedures are adhered to.
• To complete all required checks and ensure that check sheets are passed to the distribution manager.
• The ability to help in the warehouse when required.
• To look presentable in the correct LWC Drinks uniform at all times.
• Physical and manual handling is involved.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Good safety practices and driving habits.
• Possess the correct driving licence required for the vehicle.
• Good communication skills.
• Excellent customer service skills.

Pay:

The starting salary will be £36,395, but will increase to £38,000 based on the successful completion of the probationary period.

Additional Information:

• Rotated shift pattern, Week One, Mon - Fri, Week Two, Tues – Sat

LWC Drinks Ltd provides licensed establishments with all their bar and sundry supplies. However, we are more than just a distributor, becoming the fastest growing privately owned drinks company in Britain, placing 24th in the Sunday Times PWC Profit Track 100. Our aim is to provide the best customer service in the industry, employing over 1,500 people at 18 depots across the UK, with a Support Centre and Hub Distribution Centre based in Manchester