Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services
Class 1 Delivery Driver
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Class 1 Delivery Driver
Location: Daventry
At Mitie, our people are our greatest strength, and our promise is to create a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day. We're looking for a Class 1 Delivery Driver to join our team in Daventry, delivering hazardous chemicals safely and efficiently to customers across the UK. You'll play a vital role in maintaining high standards of safety, compliance, and customer service while supporting critical operations nationwide.
Role Responsibilities
- Safely deliver hazardous chemicals to customer sites across the UK through palletised deliveries and bulk transfers into customer storage tanks.
- Conduct daily vehicle inspections, maintain accurate tachograph records, and ensure compliance with all driver legislation and company procedures.
- Load, secure, and verify deliveries against manifests to ensure products are transported safely and correctly.
- Adhere to all Health & Safety, COSHH, ADR, and Standard Operating Procedures, including emergency spill response processes.
- Build positive relationships with customers and colleagues, ensuring clear communication and providing excellent customer service at all times.
- Liaise with production planners and operational teams, proactively communicating delays, issues, or changes to delivery schedules.
- Support warehouse activities when required, including forklift operation and IBC inspections.
- Manage delivery routes and workloads effectively to ensure operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.
Required Qualifications
Applicants must meet the below defined requirements for the role:
- Class 1 or Class 2 licence and a full UK driving licence.
- Previous experience transporting hazardous goods, with a strong understanding of chemical handling and transportation regulations.
- Forklift Counterbalance licence, or willingness to obtain one.
- Experience operating material handling equipment in a warehouse or distribution environment.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to remain calm and effective in a fast-paced environment.
- Valid ADR Licence (training provided)
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What We're Looking For
- A strong commitment to safety, compliance, and operational excellence.
- Excellent customer service skills with a professional and proactive approach.
- Good organisational skills with the ability to manage routes and priorities effectively.
- A reliable team player who can also work independently when required.
- Flexibility to support both transport and warehouse operations as business needs demand.
What's in it for you?
- Competitive salary with opportunities to increase earnings through overtime.
- Comprehensive training, development, and ongoing support to help you succeed and grow within your role.
- The opportunity to join a supportive and collaborative team within one of the UK's leading facilities management businesses.
- Access to Mitie's employee benefits package, wellbeing support, and reward and recognition programmes.
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Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
- We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home.
- We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
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- We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme.
- Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Zehdan Raja at zehdan.raja@mitie.com.
Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.
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