Trainee Class 2 Driver

HGV Class 2 Driver focuses on handle stock, goods, deliveries, routes, checks, or dispatch activity according to the role focus.

What the role involves

• Handle stock, goods, deliveries, routes, checks, or dispatch activity according to the role focus.
• Keep records, equipment, vehicles, or work areas accurate and safe during the shift.

Skills and requirements

• To join the Warburtons family, you’ll need a full current UK Driving Licence with no more than 6 points.
• Be supported by the driver training teams in an intensive training course, to gain your Class 2 Licence, with no cost to you.
• Ongoing fully funded Driver CPC (Your Driver CPC training is in work hours too, not outside of them).
• Be an early riser. Your shift will start at around 3.30am, so it’s an early start, but your afternoons will be your own.

Confirmed role details

• 43 hours per week, 5 over 7 rolling rota.
• £581.09 per week (rising to £756.46 per week upon completion and move into Class 2 position).
• Do you have your class B car licence with the desire to further your career and gain your Class 2 licence, with all of the costs of your training and licence taken care of?

Candidate fit

• safe driving habits, compliance awareness, reliability, and good route discipline

Additional role context

• Title: Trainee Class 2 Driver.
• Our Newton Abbot Distribution Depot is Warburton’s most southernly site, nestled in the foothills of Dartmoor National Park and less than 10 miles from the nearest beach in South D.
• We operate around 42 delivery routes every day which zigzag their way across the West Country peninsula from Poole, to Weston-Super-Mare, all the way down the coast to Lands’ End.