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Class 2 Tanker Driver
Full Time - 43 hours per week
4 days per week
Permanent Days (no nights out)
Salary - £30,062
Location - Howdon
LGV (Class 2) Vacuum Tanker Driver. Transporting Sewage Sludge from treatment facilities to onward processing across the Northeast
About the role:
We’re looking for an LGV Tanker Driver with proven experience of transport legislation compliance including driver’s hours regulations and also the Working Time Directive in line with ‘O’ licence legislation and company procedures.
As part of the role, you will Maintain a clean and compliant vehicle, ensuring pre-use checks and defect reporting procedures are practiced, satisfying DVSA requirements. You will also take charge of the safe and secure loading/unloading of a Vacuum Tanker adhering to all NWL Health and Safety requirements, ensuring that you contribute and work in line with our “Everyone Home Safe Everyday” policy.
Here at Northumbrian Water, we are passionate about the environment and the sustainability of our business, this in mind you will adopt a safe and fuel-efficient approach to driving ensuring optimum vehicle performance.
Our customers are at the heart of everything that we do, so we would love you to deliver excellent customer service to our wastewater teams, ensuring work is carried out in a positive and manner whilst representing our brand in the best possible way.
About you:
To be successful, you will need have a class 2 licence entitlement, a valid Driver tachograph card and Driver CPC. You will need to be able to demonstrate a good working knowledge of EU Drivers Hours rules and Working Time Regulations.
Please note as part of the role you will work a rotational day pattern so your flexibility will be important. You will meet lots of great people here at Northumbrian water and will become part and work within a team, this is not to say that on occasion you will not work on your own.
Vacuum Tanker experience preferred but don’t worry if you don’t have this as we will give you the training and support you need to be successful in the role.
Please note – This role has been defined as a safety or security critical role and as a condition of a formal offer of employment you’ll be required to undergo a drug and alcohol test. Prospective employees and agency workers in defined safety and security critical roles will be required to undertake a drug and alcohol test after the job offer has been made.
This will be prior to or within four weeks of their start date. Prospective employees and agency workers who fail a pre-employment urine drug screen will have their sample analysed by the Company appointed laboratory as a matter of course. Failing a pre-employment drugs or alcohol test may lead to the job offer being revoked.
Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, and encourage all colleagues to bring their most authentic self to work.
Our colleague network groups include our Rainbow Support Network (LGBTQIA+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks. They provide a safe space for colleagues from diverse backgrounds, welcoming all colleagues regardless of their personal characteristics to participate in valuable conversation that improves our organisational awareness, understanding and inclusivity.
We encourage and welcome all applications, as we strive to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to having diverse communities represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation.
About us
NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England as Northumbrian Water, and water services to 1.5 million people in the South East of England as Essex & Suffolk Water.
We are proud to serve our customers and we're committed to delivering great service, putting our customers at the heart of everything we do.
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Our values are:
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