Trainee or Qualified Bus Driver - Tycroes

If you're looking to start an exciting new career journey, we can offer you a rewarding career with a difference. Going out on the open road in Tycroes, you'll work on your own initiative and take ownership of your bus on its travels, looking after passenger safety and providing a great customer experience.

As a bus driver you will be earning GBP8.69 per hour and GBP9.31 for overtime + great benefits. You will be contracted to a 39 hours per week (this is a permanent position).

As part of our friendly and professional depot team, you'll drive different routes, issue tickets and drop people off at their destinations on time. Enjoying lots of responsibility and variety, you'll receive all the training and support you need to develop your skills, achieve your full potential and get a manual PCV (Passenger Carrying Vehicle) licence.

A friendly face who can work confidently on your own and handle cash responsibly, you must be passionate about providing the best service to our passengers. Aged 18 or above, you should also be helpful, reliable and a good communicator. Happy to work a variety of flexible shifts including early mornings, late evenings and weekends, you'll need to be calm under pressure and have a full driving licence with no more than 3 points.

Once you've completed your probation period, you'll enjoy fantastic benefits:

• Free travel - On our buses
• First Xclusives - Discounts on First UK rail and bus and over 3,000 offers on goods and services for you, your family and friends
• Share in our success - Buy discounted shares in First
• Pension - You'll automatically join our scheme and start building a pension pot
• Free life assurance - For all members of our pension scheme.

About Us:

South Wales Transport commenced operating on 2 May 1914 in Swansea with the early buses having solid tyres and staff and passengers exposed to the weather.

Nowadays we are at the forefront of on bus technology, leading the way with real time information, tracking and contactless payments!

In April 1995 after several mergers South Wales Transport was to form FirstBus and all Welsh operations were rebranded as First Cymru.

Now the company operates around 200 bus services in the south Wales area, in and between Haverfordwest, Pembroke, Tenby, Carmarthen, Llanelli, Swansea, Pontardawe, Neath, Port Talbot, Maesteg, Bridgend and Cardiff.

We in the West Wales area, are a smaller group of employees, of around 110 and have work-family orientated feel in each of our depots at Llanelli, Tycroes, Carmarthen and Haverfordwest. We also provide a friendly, reliable service to some of the remote areas of our beautiful countryside, with good links to the city of Swansea.