Van Driver – Leeds
Location: Leeds
Job Type: Permanent
Contract: Full time
Pay: £13.30 per hour
Johnsons Hotel Linen is one of the UK’s largest laundry and linen hire companies, suppliers to the hotel industry, servicing high quality Hotels across England and Wales. A Johnson Service Group PLC company. We are seeking a talented individual to join us as Van Driver to strengthen our Transport team.
The Role:
Responsibilities of the role include:
· Carry out deliveries to hotels as and when requested by the Transport Manager and/or offices
· Maintaining Vans on a daily/weekly basis and ensuring that vehicles are always clean and road worthy/legal
· Maintaining regular and constant contact with the Transport Manager and/or office
· Delivering and collecting clean and soiled linen
· At all times you are expected to represent the Company in a professional manner, being polite and courteous towards all customers
· Keeping the inside of your vehicle clean and dispose of any rubbish in the bins provided in the yard
· Ensuring that vehicles are always left overnight at the production facility as company insurance requires all vehicles to be left in secure premises
· Completing a daily safety check on your vehicle prior to leaving the depot to check key maintenance issues including tyres, levels and lights, wear Hi-Vis jacket and other safety equipment on site and at customer premise.
. You will ensure that Yard Safety is of paramount importance and work with line management to challenge any Safety concerns or issues.
. Work with the transport team to manage & co-ordinate offloading of soiled cages by route and linen type.
. Organisation of Empty Available Cages
. You will be expected to bring cages into the building to keep sorting area fully supplied with soiled cages.
. You will record any near misses that occur in the Yard.
. You will support the loading of the DD Artic with clean or soiled linen when required.
. Act as Banksman in the Yard – training will be provided.
. Other Ad hoc duties as required.
The position covers a variety of shift patterns and the successful candidate, you must be prepared to be flexible in your approach to working hours including weekends. Start times will vary and will include weekend working.

Please refer the Job description for details