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ROLE: Class 1 Delivery Driver
LOCATION: Daventry
At Mitie, our people are our greatest strength, and our promise is to create a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day. We’re looking for a Class 1 Delivery Driver to safely deliver hazardous chemicals across the UK, ensuring excellent customer service while maintaining the highest standards of safety, compliance, and operational efficiency.
Role Responsibilities
- Safely deliver hazardous chemicals to customer locations across the UK via palletised deliveries and bulk transfers into customer storage tanks using IBC totes.
- Complete daily vehicle checks, maintain accurate tachograph records, and ensure compliance with all driver regulations.
- Load, secure, and check deliveries against manifests, ensuring all products are transported safely and correctly.
- Follow all Health & Safety, COSHH, ADR, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), including spill response procedures.
- Communicate effectively with customers, colleagues, and production planners, proactively highlighting delays or operational issues.
- Support warehouse operations when required, including forklift operation and IBC inspections.
- Manage routes and workload efficiently while maintaining excellent customer service standards.
Required Qualifications
- Valid ADR Licence (Class 1 or 2) and a full UK driving licence.
- Previous experience transporting hazardous goods and a strong understanding of chemical handling and transportation regulations.
- Forklift Counterbalance licence (or willingness to obtain) and experience operating material handling equipment.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to remain calm and effective under pressure.
- Commitment to high standards of safety, compliance, and customer service.
What’s in it for you?
- Competitive salary with opportunities for overtime.
- Comprehensive training, development, and support to help you succeed in your role.
- The opportunity to join a supportive team within one of the UK’s leading facilities management organisations.
- Access to Mitie benefits, wellbeing support, and employee reward programmes.
There’s a place for you at Mitie, join us today!
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle. We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans. When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices! We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all.
If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Zehdan Raja at zehdan.raja@mitie.com.
And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie). We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000! Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.
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