Class 1 HGV Driver
Job Description & Overview
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Do you want to play a vital role in keeping goods moving across the UK and Europe? Are you a reliable, safety-focused driver who takes pride in delivering excellent service when it matters most? If so, you could be the newest addition to our team as a Class 1 HGV Driver based in Immingham.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">As part of our professional driving team, you'll help ensure the safe and efficient movement of goods, supporting customers and communities while contributing to one of the UK's leading transport and logistics operations.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Be part of the movement – and play your part.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">About the role</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Based near Immingham Docks, this role offers the flexibility to choose between general haulage or fridge work on night shifts to suit your lifestyle. As a key link in our international supply chain, you’ll work with DFDS‑owned trailers and equipment from our terminals and vessels, as part of Northern Europe’s largest integrated shipping and logistics network.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Nights Package</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Basic: Weekly £765.03/£17.00 per hour</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Overtime (Mon – Sat): £18.00 per hour</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Overtime (Sun): £18.31 per hour</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">All hours paid for including breaks. All CPC Training provided by DFDS Killingholme during working hours.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">You will be responsible for:</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Safe transport of goods using curtainsider or refrigerated trailers</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Timely collections and deliveries across the UK</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Usage of DFDS apps to give customers real-time updates</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">(For fridge work) Monitoring and maintaining correct trailer temperatures</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Daily vehicle checks and defect reporting</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Accurate record-keeping of deliveries and driving hours</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Compliance with all road safety and transport regulations</p>
<h5 class="fw-bold text-success mt-4 mb-3">About you</h5>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">You’re a professional Class 1 Driver who takes pride in doing the job right. Whether your background is in general haulage, fridge work, or both, you’re thorough with vehicle checks, safety-conscious, and confident working independently.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">You’re up to date with your CPC, DIGI card, and driving hours, and you bring a customer-first attitude to every job. Experience with ferry trailers or dockside operations is a bonus.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">This role is ideal for someone seeking steady, well-organised work with a supportive transport team.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">We think the strongest teams are built on diversity and inclusivity. Contrasting opinions, varied skills and strong characters bring out the best in us all. And we cannot wait for you to join.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Working at DFDS</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Join the movement and grow with us.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">We’ll support you on your journey and create the conditions that make it worthwhile.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">We’ll encourage you to challenge yourself, to acquire new skills and attributes. We want you to develop and progress within your career. At DFDS, we believe that development happens first and foremost through activities in the workplace, and we've developed training courses to support you.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Now about what we can give you. You’ll be able to access some fantastic benefits such as:</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Life assurance cover</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Contributory company pension scheme</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Holiday Purchase Scheme</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Free ferry travel for up to 4 guests between Dover and Calais / Newcastle and Amsterdam with no limit on trips</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Full employee assistance programme including:</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Proactive financial, emotional, mental, and physical health care support including face to face counselling, fast 24/7 access to a GP, a second medical opinion and legal support for colleagues and their family.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Huge range of retail discounts from high street and online retailers</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Cashback on health care including dental, optical, physiotherapy, prescriptions, specialist consultations and much more.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Access to myStrength, our Wellbeing platform, which has plenty of content to support and improve your mental wellness needs.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Access to mental health first aid and opportunity to join support webinars with a focus on all areas of positive wellbeing.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Are we a match? Then what are you waiting for? Apply now.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">If you think your personality, skills, experience, and desire match this role, we’d love to hear from you. Please send us your CV as soon as possible, as we’re keen to meet potential candidates on an ongoing basis.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">We look forward to hearing from you</p>
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Key Details
- Date Posted: 17 Sep 2026
- Location: Immingham, United Kingdom
- Employment Type: Permanent
- Licence: Class 1 (C+E)
- Category: Distribution
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