A little bit about the company:
Jarvie Plant Ltd is a leading independent plant and equipment hire company with over 60 years of experience in the industry. We provide a wide range of plant and equipment hire solutions to the construction, civil engineering and industrial sectors. Our Head office is based at Newbridge, Edinburgh, with depots across Scotland and Manchester. We operate through 6 divisions incorporating Plant, Handling, Access, Accommodation, Power and Commercial Vehicles. As a family business with family values our focus is on delivering excellent customer service every time.
The role of HGV Driver:
As one of our HGV Drivers, you will be an essential part of our Transport Operations, delivering and collecting plant and accommodation equipment to and from customer premises. This role requires a customer-focused approach, safety consciousness, and a passion for providing excellent service. Key area's of responsibilities will include:.
- Supervision of loading: Ensure that equipment/plant is correctly loaded onto the vehicle in a safe and efficient manner, in line with customer orders.
- Delivery & Collection: Safely deliver and collect plant and accommodation equipment, respecting the customer's property and site requirements.
- Customer Interaction: Check goods off with the customer upon delivery, ensuring accuracy and obtaining a signature for the delivery form.
- Safe Driving: Operate the vehicle safely and in full compliance with traffic laws, ensuring the safety of yourself, the vehicle, and others on the road.
- Reporting: Report any damages, safety issues, accidents, or significant problems to the Transport Compliance Manager in a timely manner.
Are you the right person for this role?
We require our HGV Driver applicants to have the following skills/qualifications and experience:
- HGV Cat C+E Licence (Essential).
- Hiab Ticket (Essential) – Experience operating a Hiab crane to load/unload goods.
- Strong communication and customer service skills to interact with clients in a professional and friendly manner.
- A flexible approach to work, including willingness to adapt to changing schedules and tasks.
- Good time management skills to ensure deliveries are completed efficiently.
- Safety-conscious with a keen awareness of road safety regulations and best practices.
- Solid geographical knowledge of Scotland and the ability to navigate effectively to customer locations.
- Experience in a similar HGV driving role, ideally in plant/accommodation hire.
- IPAF (International Powered Access Federation) certification for operating mobile elevating work platforms - Preferred, but not required.
- ADR (Hazardous Goods) Certification – Preferred, but not required.
In addition to your skills and experience, does your work ethic align with our core values:
- Safety Conscious – Safety comes 1st in all Jarvie Plant Operations
- Collaborative – Strong individual performer, but a Team Player to help one another reach our goals.
- Dependable – Strong Team member that the Service Control team and Customers can rely on to do the right thing.
- Progressive – possess a drive to assist with continual improvement
- Responsible – we make the communities that we call home a better place
If yes, this could be the opportunity for you.
The benefits of working at Jarvie Plant:
Our Company vision and values are at the core of everything we do here at Jarvie Plant. With an attractive rewards package, that includes a competitive hourly rate, our wide range of generous benefits include:
- Monday to Friday work pattern
- Tailored Learning Opportunities and Learning & Development Programme
- Our Employee Discount Scheme
- Staff Discount
- Extra Holidays
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee recognition scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Company Pension Scheme
If you have the skills and drive to join our Transport Team and are looking for a challenging and rewarding role, we would love to hear from you! Apply today by submitting your CV via our Swag recruitment portal by using the following link:
https://jobs.employmenthero.com/jobs/jarvie-plant-hgv-driver-grangemouth-depot
If you have any further questions regarding this role please contact recruitment@jarvieplant.co.uk
What we need you to know before applying and/or accepting a job offer from us: Unfortunately, we will not consider applications from candidates that require sponsorship. International applicants will only be considered for interview on receipt of documentation to confirm your Right to Work in the UK.
If we offer you a position, this will be subject to the completion of certain satisfactory checks. Depending on the requirements of the role, this may include a DVLA points check, credit and/or criminal reference checks, as well as providing satisfactory references.
Jarvie Plant - where people are and always will be our greatest asset!
Jarvie Plant Ltd is an employer that welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons. Regardless of disability, age, race, religion, gender identity, sexual preference or sexual orientation we are committed to promoting a culture that protects the physical and mental health of all our staff.