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Biffa Waste Services · Onsite · Lochgilphead, Scotland, United Kingdom

LGV Lead Driver - Lochgilphead
Salary: £36,138.96 per annum
39 hours per week - Monday to Friday

Permanent

We are seeking a dedicated LGV Lead Driver to oversee our driver team and ensure smooth, compliant, and efficient transport operations. This role involves coordinating schedules, monitoring performance, and serving as a key point of contact for drivers, all while maintaining a strong focus on safety and customer service. Ideal candidates will have a valid LGV license, CPC qualification, and experience in both driving and team leadership.

Your key responsibilities:

  • Responsible for communicating with Drivers regarding customer service information and addressing day to day issues out with the depot
  • Providing holiday cover for the Logistics Manager.
  • Provide holiday cover for other drivers when necessary.
  • Ensure a high level of health & safety of compliance are maintained at all times.
  • Assists in the delivery of a safe operation within the transfer station & operational areas
  • Assist in the continuing operations and participating in maintaining vehicles and equipment
  • Providing training/support to drivers and operational staff

Requirements

Essential

  • Previous experience in a similar role.
  • Class 1 HGV Licence
  • In-depth knowledge of Biffa Vehicles
  • Team player
  • Nationally recognised Driver CPC driver Card
  • Driver Digital tacho card

Preferable

  • Experience in working in a waste management environment
  • A.D.R Licence
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This role pays $48,383/yrin line with the typical range for Driver roles.

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About Biffa Waste Services

Biffa have been servicing the waste management needs of the UK since 1912 and we’re now a UK leading integrated waste management company.

We are proud to lead the waste and recycling industry. With operations at over 195 sites spanning the length and breadth of the country, we service over 2.3 million households and collect 4.3 million bins per week just within our municipal division. From our conception in 1912, our business has developed far beyond waste collection and into recycling, treatment and energy generation services

Our Vision

To be the leader in UK sustainable waste management.

Our Purpose

We're here to change the way people think about waste.

Our values truly reinforce what we are all about:

We act as a team

- We are working towards a common goal

- We look out for each other

- We all have an equal voice and respect each other

We make things happen

- We are hands on and get stuck in

- We find a way

- We go the extra mile and always deliver

We do the right thing

- We are honest, transparent and responsible for our actions

- We keep our promises

- We build trust by being consistent and fair

We take pride in what we do

- We continually develop our knowledge and expertise

- We know our work matters

- We take price in a job well done


We are a progressive business and innovation is core to our strategy. This means continually developing and improving our extensive UK-wide infrastructure to provide greater flexibility, an innovative and broad range of services and the utilisation of technology to ensure we are easy to do business with.

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