Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services
Laundry Driver & Stores Operative
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Job title: Laundry Driver & Stores Operative
Rate of pay: £14.34 per hour
Position type: Permanent
Type of employment: Full time
Contractual hours: 39 hours per week
Location: Sellafield, Seascale, Cumbria, England CA20 1PG
Job Overview
To ensure the accurate and timely collection, transportation, and distribution of clean and soiled laundry items between the Laundry Store and Changing Rooms across the Sellafield and Low Level Waste (LLW) sites, maintaining service standards and compliance with contractual and operational requirements.
Main Duties
- To undertake and document daily vehicle inspections in accordance with company policies, procedures, and statutory requirements, reporting any defects promptly to the Laundry Supervisor.
- To accurately record vehicle faults and maintenance issues on the designated vehicle checklist and ensure timely escalation where required.
- To safely load and unload vehicles at the Non-Active Laundry, ensuring full compliance with company procedures, site security protocols, and health and safety requirements.
- To safely load and unload vehicles at the Medium Active Laundry, maintaining compliance with company procedures, site security protocols, and health and safety requirements.
- To load and unload vehicles at Changing Rooms across the Sellafield and Low Level Waste (LLW) sites, ensuring all activities are conducted in accordance with company policies, security arrangements, and health and safety standards.
- To prepare and load laundry cages for transportation, ensuring items are handled securely and efficiently.
- To utilise lifting and lowering tail-lift equipment to safely transfer laundry cages between vehicles and designated loading areas.
- To ensure the efficient collection, delivery, and distribution of laundry items between the Laundry facilities and Changing Rooms, maintaining service levels and operational standards.
- To support Laundry Stores operations, including daily stock preparation, inventory monitoring, and associated administrative activities.
- To maintain high standards of housekeeping, safety, and security within all work areas and during all transportation activities.
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What we are looking for
- Previous experience of stock control but not essential.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Understanding of Health & Safety requirements and safe working practices.
- Strong customer service and customer care focus.
- Full UK Category B driving licence with a clean driving record.
- Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
- Good organisational skills and attention to detail.
- Reliable, flexible, and committed to delivering high standards of service.
Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme
Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme 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 benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!
- 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 is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10,000 - giving peace of mind for your dependants. We also offer 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!
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About Mitie
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