Class 1 Driver

Company Description

Job Description

This role will be on a 30hr contract across 3 days Thursday, Friday & Saturday 3am Start at £15.76 PH 

Join us as a Class 1 Driver based from our Medina Food Service Depot in Newport, Isle of Wight, and enjoy a professional driving career with world-class, award-winning training and high operational standards. We offer a level of security, stability and opportunity that’s hard to find. 

You’ll start with a thorough induction - then you'll be providing our customers a friendly totally dedicated delivery service of food orders taking care to resolve any issues along the way.  It's a vital role, and it can be hard work, but a Medina Food Service Driver makes it look easy! 

You'll need to pay attention for maintaining product temperatures in a multi-temperature controlled vehicle.  You'll need awareness of VOSA compliance to ensure your vehicle checks are completed to a high standard to ensure roadworthiness.  The role includes manual handling of our food produce to the customers premises so you will need to comply with Health and Safety (SSOW), hygiene and other related legislation.

You'll require a full class 1 drivers licence and extensive road knowledge of our local area.  As our Trunk driver you'll use your strong communication and teamwork skills, knowledge and initiative to solve basic problems and make routine decisions. 

You’ll enjoy some pretty impressive benefits too;

• Heavily discounted quality food through staff sales
• Reward, recognition and referral schemes
• Pension scheme
• Generous annual leave with option to buy more
• Charitable events to get involved with
• And last but not least, a health and wellbeing programme.

There’s a lot on offer, so what are you waiting for? 

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Additional Information

At Medina everyone is welcome. We don’t want you to ‘fit our culture’ we want you to help define it and we actively celebrate the unique talents of each and every colleague. We don’t just look at your CV, we’re more focused on who you are and your potential. As part of our values, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone has a voice, is appreciated and has the same opportunities. We work hard to ensure that everyone feels part of our business, as we care for one another and connect the world through food and trusted partnerships. Our ultimate goal is to ensure that everyone belongs and thrives at Medina and we recognise that Medina Foodservice can only thrive when everyone feels they belong. We'll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our resourcing team who will be happy to support you.