About the Role
As a delivery and collection driver, you’ll make collections and deliveries to GP surgeries, retail pharmacies, wholesalers and hospitals. You will also be required to make deliveries to patients and on occasion assist them with the rotation and return of stock items, for this we are looking for applicants who can demonstrate excellent levels of customer service.
Responsibilities
- Check and scan all consignments
- Complete daily safety checks of vehicle and refrigeration unit
- Deliver consignments on an accurate and timely basis ensuring products stay within the required temperature range
- Ensure that records of deliveries are electronically captured and driver manifests are completed
- Maintain daily communications to provide service updates
- Demonstrate professional and safe driving competency at all times
- Present a smart working appearance at all times
Requirements
- A minimum of 2 years’ driving experience
- Must hold a B category driving licence (ideally no more than 3 points)
- Previous delivery driver experience advantageous
- Excellent communication and customer service skills
- Ability to build effective working relationships with customers/clients, whilst appreciating the need for maintaining confidentiality
- Good organisation skills with the ability to prioritise
- Enhanced disclosure criminal record checks will be processed for successful applicants
Skills
- Excellent communication and customer service skills
- Good organisation skills
- Ability to prioritise
- Professional and safe driving competency
Location
- 648 River Gardens, Feltham, TW14 0RB
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Minimum of 2 years’ driving experience
Benefits
- 28 days’ holiday (including bank holidays) building to 33 days (including bank holidays) in the sixth full holiday year
- Company pension scheme
- UPS Perks At Work scheme
About the Company
- Polar Speed, a UPS company, is a logistics company and innovative provider of temperature sensitive transportation and pharmaceutical supply chain solutions in the UK.
- Polar Speed has a reputation for quality, compliance, operational and customer facing technology and monitoring solutions in the growing temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical logistics market in the UK.
- The company specialises in active temperature-controlled deliveries to hospitals, pharmacies, wholesalers and medical care surgeries as well as to end patients which it serves through its homecare business.
- Its customers include some of the best known pharmaceutical brands in the world.
Equal Opportunity
- UPS is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.
