Roles & Responsibilities
- Provide consistent, high‑quality, customer‑focused delivery and collection service for libraries, museums, community hubs, and associated traded services.
- Transport a wide range of resources, including books, furniture, shelving, salvage, and other equipment, across West and North Northamptonshire, supporting teams in delivering services.
- Commit to delivering an excellent customer experience, ensuring high standards of customer service at all times.
- Safely and efficiently deliver resources, operating a van in line with Road Traffic Act regulations, following planned schedules and responding to ad‑hoc requests.
- Carry out daily vehicle checks, maintenance, cleaning, and refuelling in accordance with council procedures.
- Support all aspects of loading, unloading, and warehousing of service and supplier resources.
- Ensure safe van operation in all conditions and adhere to all relevant processes, promptly reporting any issues to the appropriate manager.
Qualifications
- A full, clean UK driving licence.
- Experience or willingness to operate a van in compliance with Road Traffic Act regulations.
- Strong customer service orientation.
- Reliability, punctuality and adherence to schedules.
- Good organisational and communication skills.
Our Benefits
Benefits information is available on our careers site: Why you should work for us | West Northamptonshire Council.
About Us
At West Northants Council, it’s about our people. People who thrive with ambition, bubble with new ideas, demand better ways of working, caring about every detail, and who never shy away from a challenge. Our culture is a gateway for new experiences. A place to forge new opportunities. To empower you in your career and unite you with like‑minded people.
Our vision is ‘to make West Northants a great place to live, work, visit and thrive’. We truly stand by this and work hard every day to make this a reality.
Our corporate values, THRIVE, stand for: Trust, High Performance, Respect, Innovate and Empower, they underpin everything we do and how we deliver services.
We are committed to ensuring diversity, equality, equity, and inclusion is woven into the fabric of WNC and everything we do, to enable all colleagues to develop and maximize their full potential. We are a disability confident employer, a member of the Armed Forces Covenant, and a Care Leaver Covenant partner.
The following film was created by us to communicate our intentions – watch WNC colleagues explain what DEI means to us.
Application Support
If you need additional support or reasonable adjustments during the application process, including needing the job description in another format or language, please email careers@westnorthants.gov.uk for support.
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