Winter Service Drivers

Job description

ENGIE is a leading energy and services company focused on three key activities: production and supply of energy, services and regeneration. Our 17,000 employees combine these capabilities for the benefit of individuals, businesses and communities throughout the UK & Ireland.

We enable customers to embrace a lower carbon, more efficient and increasingly digital world. Our customers benefit from our energy efficient and smart building solutions, the provision of effective and innovative services, the transformation of neighbourhoods through regeneration projects, and the supply of reliable, flexible and renewable energy.

ENGIE improves lives through better living and working environments. We help to balance performance with responsibility, enabling progress in a harmonious way.

Globally, the ENGIE Group employs 160,000 people worldwide and achieved revenues of €60.6 billion in 2018.

ENGIE are recruiting for Winter Service Drivers x 2, to be based at Doughty Road Depot, Doughty Road, Grimsby DN32 0LL. These are permanent full-time roles, working 28 hours per week. This role offers a minimum of £11.61 per day whilst on standby, and a minimum call out of £78.73 per gritting call out.

Working on a rota which covers the 12-hour period between midday and midnight (evening shift) and midnight to midday (morning shift). The hours worked each week will vary dependent on the number of gritting call outs whilst on standby

General Overview:

The successful candidates will be part of a team that has responsibility, under delegated powers, to ensure that the Local Authority discharges its statutory duty for winter service to ensure the highway is safe for all users of the network and the wider community, having regard to core objectives of safety, serviceability and sustainability. The position is a seasonal post typically from the beginning of November until the middle of April each year, although it may be extended to account for seasonal changes and weather patterns. This role reports into the Highway Supervisor.

Main Responsibilities/Duties Include:

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Drive gritting vehicles to spread salt on the highway (with a snow plough fitted during adverse weather conditions) during both normal working hours and out of hours.

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In addition to driving the gritter, duties will also include loading the gritter with salt at the start of the route and Cleaning the vehicle upon completion of the route.

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Required to work an alternating shift pattern between midnight to midday or midday to midnight, including weekends and bank holidays.

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Must be able, whilst on shift, to attend the Operating Centre at Grimsby Town Centre within 60 minutes of being called out.

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Required to drive specialist winter service vehicles and equipment, subject to license, training and competency, including fixed bodied gritters, demount gritters, and loading shovel.

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Required to operate ancillary equipment such as snow plough attachments and gritting trailers.

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Familiar with drivers’ hours legislation and be able to complete accurate records, including drivers hours books and vehicle defect books.

Qualifications or Required Experience:

·  Applicants will hold a LGV Cat C (HGV Class 2) licence
·  Applicants will hold full CPC qualification with drivers card to support the qualification
·  Applicants should preferably be trained to NPORS Telescopic handler or similar.
·  Applicants should preferably hold a City and Guilds 6159 Winter Service qualification, although training will be provided to suitable candidates.
·  Applicants must be able to work methodically and systematically and maintain accurate records.
·  Applicants must be self-motivated and be able to work unsupervised.
·  Applicants must be able to demonstrate a commitment to continuous professional development.

For more information about ENGIE, please visit:

http://www.engie.com/en/candidates-area/

For this role, you must have evidence of the right to work in the UK. There is no re-location package with this job role. ENGIE do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

The ENGIE Resourcing Team supports this job advert. Agency involvement is not required. All related enquiries must come to the resourcing team not direct to ENGIE Managers.

If you are a disabled applicant and meet the minimum outlined in the job description, you will be given the opportunity to demonstrate your abilities at interview.

Additional Information
·  Posting Date: Aug 29, 2019