Delivery Driver - Retail Country Stores in Eggleston

We are seeking a highly motivated and organised Delivery Driver to join our dynamic team at Barnard Castle Country Store. This exciting opportunity is ideal for someone passionate about serving and supporting the rural and agricultural industry and who wants to assist with the day‑to‑day running of the country store alongside an established distribution team, ensuring the highest level of customer satisfaction and standards are achieved at all times. The role is for 24 hours per week and involves delivering products out to our customers in a timely manner while also:

• Actively supporting other team members to ensure targets and tasks are completed
• Delivering good working relationships with all team members
• Promoting the business and work to a required standard
• Following company procedures to complete tasks without assistance
• Working to get routine daily tasks done in time and to the standard required
• Following through customer enquiries, requests and problems and dealing with them promptly
• Confidently dealing with customer problems and establishing customer needs
• Ensuring all policies and procedures in respect of health, safety and environment are adhered to, providing a safe and secure environment for self, staff and customers
• To also comply with legislation surrounding UFAS, FIAS and NOPS assurance schemes
• Being aware of the risks in the work environment and their potential impact on self, colleagues, customers and visitors and taking action to address them
• Attending training and developing relevant knowledge and skills
• Ensuring deliveries required on the van are done in a timely and professional manner

Qualifications

• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to liaise between a number of departments
• Exceptional customer service skills as dealing with many internal and external customers
• Full UK driver’s licence so able to do van deliveries to customers
• Qualified forklift truck and telehandler driver with experience in actively loading and unloading vehicles
• Team player, with a genuine interest in helping others

Desirable Skills

• Holds a tacograph card
• Agricultural knowledge and experience

Every day we provide rural and agricultural communities with the support they need to succeed. Whether they are after a healthier herd or flock, increased yields, faster growth rates, a decent return on their land or even just a helping hand, we have the people, products, and services to help our customers get from where they are now to where they want to be. This is why every role at Carr's Billington is hugely important to our shared success and why we welcome talent from across all different backgrounds to work across our retail, feed, machinery, fuel and central support divisions. Carr's Billington Agriculture is a subsidiary company of The Billington Group, who are also the proud owner of Criddle & Co., English Provender Company and Billington Foods.

Benefits

• An attractive salary package
• Annual salary reviews in September each year
• A minimum of 25 days annual leave
• Opportunity to work for a well‑established family‑owned business with ambitions for growth and innovation
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which offers counselling and health and wellbeing advice
• Generous company sick pay entitlement
• A health cash plan allowing colleagues to claim back money spent on everyday health care such as optical, dental, physiotherapy and more
• Staff discount on selected products at our Country Stores
• Cycle‑to‑work scheme: a salary sacrifice scheme saving you tax on the purchase of a new bicycle and associated equipment
• Flexible life assurance and critical illness cover with preferential rates
• Access to an exclusive member’s discount website (My Savings Hub) for over 3,500 brands, where you can save money and earn cashback on a wide range of purchases
• Savings schemes, preferential rate loans and wage advances available through payroll, with tools for financial education
• Company pension scheme enrolment after 3 months of employment
• Role‑specific training and ongoing training and development opportunities identified through our annual appraisal scheme