At a glance: Role: 7.5T C1 Driver Various Positions: Driver Trainee & Driver Installer Pay: The Driver Trainee pay will start at £12.50, hourly and the starting rate for Driver Installer pay will be £ £31,213, Annual Position: Permanent Hours: 41 hours (4 days in 6, no Sunday or Bank Holiday working required) Working 06:00 - 17:00 Monday - Saturday Location: Hill Barton, Exeter Please note: Due to the nature of this role, we require all applicants to be over 18 to apply. Our working environment is important. At Hill Barton, we have a variety of great things to offer to make your work-life balance better, these include: Free car park and great transport links (bus) Daily lunch subsidy Free fruit and hot drinks Onsite shower facilities Subsidised Partner Dining room (with pool table / TV) Flexible working: Shift Patterns that suit your needs Health & Wellbeing support Our Customer Delivery teams are the face of the John Lewis & Partners brand. As part of a two-person crew, you will deliver, assemble, and install a wide range of home furnishings, electrical products, and sports equipment, ensuring every delivery is made with the highest level of customer service. As a driver for the Partnership, you will promote the Partnership brand by being professional and courteous to other road users. About the roles: DRIVER TRAINEE We will guide you through a 12-month Customer Delivery Driver Trainee program to become a qualified John Lewis Customer Delivery Installer and assist you in obtaining your C1 license. DRIVER INSTALLER You will need a C1 license to apply for this job profile. Your typical day will start with completing all daily vehicle checks and following correct defect reporting procedures. After you have safely loaded/checked your route you will then undertake your deliveries and collections for the day alongside your colleague. Communication with your customers is key and you will need to ensure you call every customer 30 minutes before you are due to arrive. Upon arrival, you will deliver the customer's goods to their room of choice and undertake any services that have been booked. These may include: Installation and disconnection of white goods Assembly of flat pack TV installations Finally, you will offer to take away the packaging. Upon return to the customer delivery hub, you will complete your end-of-day vehicle check and debrief, ensuring any issues/defects are reported. Please note that this role involves heavy lifting. To find out more about these roles please visit our 'Customer Delivery Driver' page on JLP Jobs: https://www.jlpjobs.com/john-lewis-and-partners/customer-delivery-drivers/ Essential skills you’ll need Previous driving experience You should have verbal communication skills suitable for phone and face-to-face interactions Able to cope with the physical requirements of the role (involves heavy lifting of washing machines, large fridge freezers and other white goods as part of a 2 person crew) Required Qualifications: A Clean UK Category B license to apply for the Driver Trainee position A valid C1 Driving license (with a maximum of 6 points) to apply for the Installer position We believe in rewarding our Partners for their time and effort. After all, they’re the ones that make the John Lewis Partnership special. Benefits include: Once you’ve been with us for three months, you’ll get a Partnership discount in-store and online on a majority of products. That’s 25% off in John Lewis & Partners (12% off electrical products, some exclusions apply) and 20% off in Waitrose & Partners. You’ll also be able to nominate someone you live with to share your discount. The Partnership has a competitive pension scheme where your contributions will be matched by the Partnership (up to 8% of pay) Excellent work-life balance, including a focus on well-being and flexible working and our marketing leading equal parenthood leave Policy And much more Find out more about our benefits here: https://www.jlpjobs.com/about/benefits/ Please see the full details and the key accountabilities about the role in the Job Outlines attached. For current partners only - Please view the job outline here using your internal Partnership device or email address: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Ffmrv9GEU8liMFyzhKTs9SpJ1tdKDLN/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U9zm9BMnulSabOaHGPT1Cgq83pJABsnt/view Important note: Please be aware that due to the nature and activities of this role, all successful candidates will have a DBS check carried out on them through a 3rd party registered body. For more details on DBS checks and what these entail, please visit the Government website. LI-JLPWTR LI-HEADOFFICE LI-JLPJL