Delivery Driver in Leatherhead, Surrey

Key Information for 3.5 ton Delivery Driver:

• Location: Leatherhead and the surrounding areas.
• Hours: Monday to Friday, between 7:30am - 5:00pm
• Salary: £13 per hour (with overtime paid at time and a half)

Our client is seeking an experienced, proactive and efficient 3.5 ton Delivery Driver to join their team in the Leatherhead area. This role will require the successful candidate to hold a full, clean UK drivers licence, have a willingness to work in the warehouse when required and to be a supportive team player.

Key responsibilities:

• Ensuring standards of the delivery vehicle – including daily vehicle checks, maintaining the cleanliness of the vehicle and ensuring faults are reported within a timely manner.
• Assisting with deliveries – assisting the driver with directions, picking and packing, loading and unloading of vehicles, and ensuring that deliveries arrive in expected condition and in a timely manner.
• Warehouse duties – Stock taking (when required/ for yearly stock check), day-to-day administration and manual tasks (as directed by line manager), ensuring that the warehouse is tidy and safe for yourself and your colleagues.
• Ensuring that you are fulfilling legal duty to take reasonable care of yourself and others, co-operating with Health and safety guidelines of the company.
• To ensure that you are following GDPR requirements (of both the company and their clients).
• Resolve customer queries/warranty/credits/complaints to the satisfaction of all parties.
• Identify and work with third party distribution providers, identify potential problems to ensure the smooth flow of orders and customer satisfaction.
• Maintain close contact with customer service staff, understand their working practices and be proactive in preventing the occurrence of avoidable problems for our customers.
• Communicate enquiries to the External Sales Engineers to enable maximisation of potential sales.
• Provide cover within the branch / trade counter, at which you are based during unplanned absences.
• Ensure that the warehouse and trade counter support sales in achieving product sales / and market share in accordance with company objectives.
• Communicate effectively with the Branch Manager.
• Acquire and demonstrate the necessary selling skills, product knowledge and understanding of company policy to work effectively.
• Provide assistance and motivation to all colleagues when required.
• Work within Focus sales procedures in the branch environment.
• Work with the Branch Manager to ensure that customers’ required levels of service are being met.
• Ensure that complaints, as they affect your direct responsibility, are promptly dealt with, in a professional manner.
• Maintain company property to the required standard.
• Represent the company in a business-like manner and maintain a standard of dress and appearance in-keeping with the job and position within the company.
• Be prepared to assist with out-of-hours services to customers when the need arises.
• Participate in company annual stock check.
• Any ad hoc duties as required by the Branch Manager or a Director.

Essential qualities for the role:

• To be an effective communicator.
• To be a team player and helpful in assisting colleagues and customers.
• The selling skills, product knowledge and understanding of company policy required to work effectively on the trade counter.
• ADR qualification in order to carry refrigerant / hazardous goods over 999kg.

Nature of the Role: This position is a temporary position, covering someone on holiday. We look forward to hearing from experienced 3.5 ton Delivery Driver candidates at Team CV LTD.