Night Driver - Casual Worker

Are you an experienced night driver looking for casual work to fit in around your life with the flexibility to pick and choose the nights you work? At Biocair, our Night Drivers are a truly vital part of our organisation. This is one of the most crucial roles in our company where what you do will make a true impact on someone's life. It is something you can be proud to be associated with. It is not about dropping 200 parcels in one day; it's about ensuring you transport a select number of time critical and temperature sensitive consignments (whether medicines or a sample from a cancer patient) in a safe, careful, and timely manner whilst maintaining the highest levels of customer care. This is a busy and fast paced role with customer care being at the centre of all you do.

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring all the correct documentation is accurately completed and processed with the shipment.
• Performing duties to maintain a clean, tidy, and safe warehouse, ensuring all materials are stored in the designated areas as well as ensuring fridges, freezers and warm room temperatures are checked and remain within prescribed parameters and maintain accurate records thereof.
• Report any shortfalls of packaging stock to the appropriate person, to ensure minimal stock levels are always maintained along with the maintenance of all relevant storage logs to 100% accuracy.
• Responsible for the cleanliness of the vehicles as well as carry out daily and weekly vehicle maintenance checks and perform simple maintenance tasks as required.
• Responsible for building positive working relationships with other drivers, departments, and management to deliver excellent communication and customer service and working proactively to overcome problems and implement process improvements.

Key Competencies:

• Excellent customer service skills.
• Must hold a current, full, Category B (or equivalent) driving licence (maximum of 3 points).
• Previous 3.5t commercial van driving experience.
• Confident driving a manual transmission.
• Demonstrable experience of working well under time pressure as well as the ability to check and maintain accurate documentation.
• Resilience, the ability to build strong working relationships and be a true team player.
• Experience of working within a cold chain or time sensitive multimodal freight forwarding or pharmaceutical industry (ideally in a logistics setting) is highly desirable.

Employment Details:

• Based at our London Heathrow office, hours as required Monday to Friday (20:00-05:00).
• This is a casual worker role so if you are looking for extra hours based around other commitments then this could be the role for you.
• The hourly rate for this role is between £15.90 - £16.27.
• This is a UK based role and the right to live and work in the UK will need to be established during the recruitment process.
• Please note we are not currently a Home Office visa sponsorship licence holder.
• As a regulated agent, we must fulfil our obligations under the Aviation Security Act. You will need to complete a thorough pre-employment screening process prior to starting work with us. This will involve your right to work in the UK as well as providing references/background checks for the last 5 years together with a criminal record check.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Biocair provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Recruitment Notice:

Please be aware that we are NOT inviting recruitment agencies to submit candidates for this role and as such any approaches will be rejected. Thank you for your understanding.