We are looking to boost our Relief Driving Team with the appointment of experienced Cover Drivers to join us on a variable hours basis and help at busy periods and to cover our permanent team.
All the relevant skills, qualifications and experience that a successful applicant will need are listed in the following description.
We are working to deliver inputs and collect combinable crops to and from farms across the UK.
The Relief driving role is for experienced Class 1 Drivers, as delivering to farms is a skilled operation.
Working daytime hours, which could be extended to include nights-out if preferred.
The role will cover our permanent driving team when they are on holiday, away for other reasons, and for extra help during seasonal peaks especially at Harvest time, which is August and September.
Work will include bulk tipper and curtain-side, delivering agricultural crops, aggregate and pallet work and we collect combined crops from farm when they are ready for export.
UK based, work will include bulk tipping and curtain side work
Collecting and delivering agricultural, aggregate and general freight.
Nights-out work is available for premium pay up to 3 to 4 nights-out per week if desired
Monday to Friday working week with some weekends during the Summer Harvest period (end of July to September)
We keep our Relief Driving team busy 9 to 10 months of the year.
Our driving team work across the Southern Counties of the UK helping our agricultural business Bartholomews Agri Food Ltd to service our farmer customers, ensuring that goods are delivered in first class condition, bulk loads are collected efficiently from farms or aggregates from third party customers. Our south coast depots include Chichester, Shoreham, Petersfield, Eastleigh, Blandford and Maidenhead.
Highly competitive remuneration and benefits package:
£16.65 per hour
Night-out allowance of £25 per night.
To Apply
Please send your Covering Letter telling us a little more about yourself and why you would to apply, together with your CV.
We would like to hear from you if you have 1 to 2 years experience with a C+E license and put customer service at the forefront of all that you do.
We would prefer you to have some experience delivering to farm, bulk tipping experience is also advantageous.
About Us:
Churchill Freight Services Ltd is a customer focused company with a first class reputation and part of the Bartholomews Group, a well established, privately owned agricultural group who has successfully traded in the Agricultural & Animal Feeds markets for more than 140 years. We are highly respected and recognised for the very high standards that we set for all of our activities across the broad range of markets that we are involved in. The business is continuing to grow and we consider that our people are our most important asset.
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