Class 1 Driver - Dagenham

at  Hovis

Welcome to Hovis. We are the proud guardians of over 130 years of baking experience that make up our iconic and much-loved brand. We produce bread and bakery products created with Hovis goodness at the heart of each. We deliver around 1.3million loaves, every day of the week throughout the UK and Ireland, where we also make Mothers Pride and Ormo products.
We are 2,800 people working within 8 bakeries, 1 flour mill, and 2 regional distribution centres across the UK. Our success is a result of the hard work of our people; they are experts in their field whether it’s baking, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, or the many departments within the central functions team based in our head office in High Wycombe. We are a values-led business and expect our colleagues to live, breathe, and embed Quality, Accountability, and Trust into their ways of working.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for Primary (Class 1) Drivers to be based at our Dagenham site, to be responsible for the delivery of products to Hovis sites and to other third party customers as required. You will work in a professional manner at all times and be polite, courteous and well presented when dealing with customers, working within a team in a way which supports the Company’s ethos on Safety, Quality, Continuous Improvement and high work standards

• LGV Cat C+E (HGV Class 1) Licence
• Complying with all legislative duties, including tachographs, Working time Directive, pre-use inspections and defect reporting, load safety and licence requirements
• Knowledge and experience of a short shelf life products and daily delivery operations.
• Ensuring goods and vehicles are quality checked and paperwork is complete and up to date
• Follow Safe Systems of Work (Health & Safety)
• Ensure products are delivered to customers safely and of the quality expected
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience of shift working
• To carry out any other ad-hoc duties that may be required