Delivery Driver - Multi Drop

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Multi Drop Delivery Drivers to join Direct Seafoods Colchester.

Direct Seafoods Colchester, forms part of the Bidfresh Group, which is Britain’s largest fresh fish supplier to the catering industry, a national supplier with strong local heritage.  Our regional depots are run by the best men and women in the business; fish mongers with the finest artisanal skills and expertise.

As a Multi Drop Delivery Driver your duties and responsibilities will be:

• Transportation and delivery of quality seafood to restaurants and hotels
• Accepting payments and adhering to strict cash handling procedures
• Monitoring temperatures and quality of produce
• Completing / processing paperwork such as daily manifests and goods return slips
• Manual handling i.e. loading and unloading of goods
• Carrying out vehicle checks and ensuring the van is kept clean, tidy and ready for inspection at any given time
• Complying with legislative requirements and company policies and procedures
• Ability to understand and follow directions / instructions

An ideal for Multi Drop Delivery Driver you will be required to be:

• Of smart appearance and professional in manner
• Possess a personable approach with customers and colleagues alike
• Able to demonstrate a 'can do' attitude
• Good verbal and written skills essential
• Able to work well on your own, must be enthusiastic and self motivated
• Clean, valid driving license essential, we will accept a maximum of three points
• Responsible and reliable with excellent time keeping skills
• Good general geographical knowledge of the UK would be an advantage
• Basic numeracy skills i.e. for cash handling purposes
• All candidates will have previous multi-drop experience and may be subject to a driver check

In line with our insurance policy all applicants should ideally be 21 or over in order to comply with the Company’s insurance requirements.

Your working hours will be approximately 44 hours per week, Monday to Saturday. Our routes change on a daily basis therefore your start and finish times will change in order to accommodate such, however, in general you will commence at a time between 2am and 6am until all drops have been completed.

In return for this you will receive a salary of £20,000 - £26,000 per annum. 

Your annual holiday entitlement will be 28 days including bank holidays (pro-rata).

For an opportunity to join this expanding company please submit your CV online together with any relevant qualification / certificates.

Applications for this role will close on 19th December 2016.

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