3.5T Van Driver - FTC

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Role: 3.5T Van Driver - Secure Collection & Manual Handling Role</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Location: Newbridge, EH28 8TP</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Salary: £(phone number removed)</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Hours a week: 45 hours, 07:00 - 16:00 depending on business requirments</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Days of work: Monday to Friday (No Night Shifts) </p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Contract type: 3 Month, Fixed Term Contract</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">This isn’t your typical driving role. As a 3.5T Van Driver - Secure Collections Operative, you’ll combine professional driving with hands-on, physical work as part of our secure collections team. You’ll be visiting client sites, collecting confidential documents, and ensuring their safe and secure transport for destruction.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">This role involves regular manual handling and lifting, so it’s well suited to someone who enjoys being active and takes pride in doing a job that keeps them moving throughout the day. </p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Duties & Responsibilities:</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Handle and move heavy sacks of paper, emptying them into secure containers and transporting them to the vehicle</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Collect and transport a variety of waste streams, including confidential paper, IT equipment, WEEE, DMR and other secure materials</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Work across small & large customer sites, transporting paper waste between collection points, which may involve extended periods on your feet, long corridors, and stairs</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Represent Restore Datashred in a professional manner, delivering excellent customer service and maintaining positive client relationships</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Carry out daily vehicle checks, completing defect sheets and reporting any issues promptly</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Ensure all equipment required for the day’s duties is loaded and secured before leaving the depot</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Review job sheets and plan your route effectively</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Use the PDA to record daily collection activities and customer information</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Ensure all paperwork is completed for each job and securely hand in copies at the end of each shift</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Keep all materials safe and secure during loading, transport, and delivery</p>

<h5 class="fw-bold text-success mt-4 mb-3">About you</h5>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Confident with manual handling and physically demanding work</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Professional and customer-focused, with strong communication skills</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Able to maintain confidentiality and discretion at all times</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Reliable, organised, and proactive in getting the job done safely and efficientlySome of our benefits include:</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Annual Leave - 23 days + bank holidays</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Life Assurance - 2x basic annual salary</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Bereavement Counselling - Support during difficult times</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Free Onsite Parking</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) - Confidential counselling via Health Assured</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3"> Eye Care Support -Free eye tests and up to £70 towards glasses for DSE users and drivers (includes retinal photography for drivers over 40)</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Access to Stream - Stream is a financial wellbeing app that allows you to track your earnings in real time and access a percentage of your pay as soon as you’ve earned it. You can also save directly from your wages, set financial goals, and get money management tips, all designed to help you budget better and reduce financial pressure between paydays.)</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Restore Commitment to Disability Confidence </p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">We assess candidates based on their experience and suitability for the role, as outlined in their CV and application. You can let us know about any adjustments you may need via the application form.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">As a Disability Confident employer, we guarantee an interview to applicants with a disability or health condition who meet the essential criteria, where it is fair and appropriate to do so</p>