Salary
£13.23 Per hour. Overtime paid at £17 per hour.
Coach driving with REAL benefits.
Join the UK's Number 1 bus company today.
We are looking for qualified bus drivers and PCV license holders to join our team immediately. The role will involve driving our MegaBus and Joint Venture routes to destinations such as Glasgow, Edinburgh, Perth, and The Isle of Skye. Whilst primarily focussed on longer distance routes, there will be a very limited requirement to perform some local service work.
Brilliant benefits including free Highlife Highland individual or family membership (up to £37.40 per month value)
You’ll be one of 128 staff who transport our fantastic customers safely and comfortably every day to healthcare and employment, to shopping and leisure, and to friends and family.
Aside from the satisfaction of being a key worker in your community, there’s loads of reasons for you to join the Stagecoach Highland team…
1. Great benefits including a generous company pension scheme, 28 days holiday rising to 33 days after 2 years, free travel for you and a companion, free financial education and affordable loans, and finally a range of money-saving opportunities including discounts on holidays and retail, cinema outings, dental insurance, vehicle breakdown cover and hotels and attractions
2. Free Highlife Highland individual or family membership (up to £37.40 per month value)
3. State of the art coaches. We are in the process of undertaking a major upgrade of our JV fleet.
4. Free travel for you and a companion on our buses – so on your days off you can be off shopping without worrying about parking the car, or heading off for a day in the city or by the seaside without worrying about the cost of fuel
5. Guaranteed 39 minimum hours with overtime for those who want to increase their earnings
6. Training. If required, we will take care of CPC renewal and then keep you qualified.
7. Plenty of job security from being a key worker at the heart of our communities, where we always need great people behind the wheel
8. Pay Rates £13.23 Per Hour. £17 per hour overtime rate.
9. UK-wide opportunities whereby if you’re moving out of choice or circumstance, as we run bus companies across the UK, you can transfer to a new location
10. Supportive and high quality training from some of the best (and nicest!) driving instructors and training managers in the industry – we’ll teach you everything you need to know about our routes, our vehicles, our tickets and more
11. Career development including our Trade Up scheme for drivers who want to move into engineering, promotion opportunities to Lead Driver, Inspector, Controller and Driving Instructor, and routes into management and leadership for those who want that
12. Secondment opportunities to work elsewhere in the business, either on big events or into our head office support functions
13. An employee assistance programme to support health and wellbeing through a confidential service available 24 hours a day which provides specialist guidance and assistance on a range of personal and work-related issues, from dealing with stress and anxiety to managing financial, marital or legal issues. Face-to-face counselling sessions are also offered, alongside telephone and online support.
14. A great working environment with loads of opportunity to make new friends from a bunch of great workmates, managers who work hard to create great places to work, and employee networks building inclusive environments for women, veterans, carers, multicultural and LGBTQ+ colleagues
The recruitment process is simple – you apply online, we’ll get you in for an interview and to see the depot, and that’s it!
What we're needing from you...,...
15. You need a full D category license.
16. You will need or be prepared to apply for a tacho card. We will pay for this if necessary.
17. You need to want to deliver great customer service
18. You need to have a patient, safe and courteous approach to driving.
Stagecoach workplace culture is one where everyone can be themselves and where all the differences our people bring to the business are celebrated. We welcome applications from all, irrespective of background, gender, ethnicity, race, religion, beliefs, disability, neurodiversity, sexual orientation or age.
Location:
Inverness Depot 1 Seafield Road Inverness IV1 1SG