Job Opportunities: Secondary Distribution Driver in Bolton

Function: Distribution

Contract: Full time, Permanent

Hours: 4 on 2 off rolling rota (starting between 03:30 and 04:00)

Location: Bolton

Salary: £733.25 per week

Are you a Class 2 Multi Drop Driver at the top of your game, but looking for something that puts you more in charge and able to provide a great customer service?

Essential Ingredients

• Full UK Driving Licence with Class C entitlement
• Digital Tacho Card
• Full CPC

The Recipe

You’ll receive a 6-week induction and support from our in-house driver training team. You’ll be an early riser—shifts start around 03:30 (some patterns may vary). The upside? Your afternoons are all yours. You’ll enjoy plenty of autonomy. You’ll be given delivery notes (or an electronic device), from which you’ll accurately pick the orders and load your own vehicle with our baked goods—either at the depot or on the move. To help keep your day smooth and safe, knowledge of basic vehicle maintenance and transport legislation (Driver Hours, Working Time Directive, Highway Code, etc.) will be key in order to relay faults on defect forms. Once your route for the day is loaded into your onboard computer, you’re off! You’ll deliver to multiple customers daily (they’re like family to us), so top-notch service, strong relationships, and professionalism are a must. This includes being able to manage difficult conversations in a calm manner and acting as an ambassador for our brand. You’ll work a defined rotating 4 on 2 off shift pattern, including weekends. All of which will hopefully help you to plan your life around work more easily.

At Warburtons, you’re more than a driver. There’s no aimless wandering looking for things. You load your own vehicle, making things that little bit easier to find. You’ll also make sure each delivery is picked accurately and in full from your delivery notes or electronic device. So, if you like to be hands-on, love a bit of organisation, and want to keep the nation’s eggs in their soldiers, then hop in and join us on the road to bread-based glory.

Key Accountabilities and Measures

Did you know there are two bakery sites in Bolton (Bolton & Variety), a distribution hub, a newly built Innovation Centre, Test Bakery, and our Head Office? We have approximately 480 colleagues working across Bolton and Variety manufacturing and distribution. We produce 1.5 million units per week, across 5 automated lines that bake our delicious fresh bread, crumpets, bagels, morning goods and muffins which is delivered daily to our customers across the UK.

There has never been a more exciting time to join our Bolton Bakeries, with new site and group initiatives and projects, you can instantly make an impact driving our Unbeatable Quality vision of being Britain’s Best Food Business! You’ll be our safe hands, and we know you’ll love to be a part of it.

Extra Dough

And last but by no means yeast... what’s your bread worth?

• Weekly pay of £733.25
• A slice of the profits (discretionary annual profit share)
• Ongoing CPC Modules (Your training is during working hours—so no need to give up your free time)
• Award-winning pension scheme with company contributions up to 7%
• Life assurance
• Product you’ll love, plus deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough platform
• Continued investment in your personal development
• Kitchens fully stocked with our tasty products—perfect to enjoy with your daily brew

We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do.