Joining the Travis Perkins family as a Yard Supervisor, you will ensure the safe and efficient running of our yard. You will also be responsible for leading and inspiring a team of Yard Assistants who are on the front line dealing with our customers that come into our yard. As part of the branch team you will play a vital role in our continued success, providing a first class service.

What will I be doing?

No one day is the same as the next in TP branch life, but here are a few pointers:

• Our success is built on strong relationships with our customers so it’s essential that you can help deliver the highest standards of service – the key thing is to be helpful and friendly at all times, you will likely get to know our customers on a first name basis.
• You will be based outside leading the external yard team, processing our customer orders, loading and unloading customer and company vehicles.
• You will also unload our building products from supplier deliveries and accurately book them in the branch warehouse.
• Experience of using a forklift is ideal, but don’t worry full training is provided
• Safety is at the forefront of everything we do, your aim will be to ensure that our standards never slip, this means maintaining a tidy and safe working environment at all times.

What skills do you need?

This is a key customer facing role, you just need the ability to provide great customer service and have experience in a supervisory role, we can teach you the rest.  

Does this sound like you?

We hope you can say ‘Yes’ to all of the characteristics below – they are in the DNA of all our Yard Sales Supervisors.  Are you:

• Someone that is physically active, as this role is located outside, it will involve lifting heavy building materials.
• Passionate and an engaging leader, who has the ability to create a “one team” approach through collaboration and motivation.
• Someone that has a friendly and outgoing personality who is happy to communicate face to face with customers and build strong relationships.
• Someone that is adaptable, resilient and tenacious with high levels of energy and drive.
• Someone who thrives in a dynamic and fast paced environment.

Being a Yard Sales Supervisor in TP gives you a fantastic opportunity to excel and to continue to develop your career, if you choose.  As a new colleague you will be encouraged to enroll onto a TP development scheme – which are available to colleagues and managers at all levels of our business. How will you know you are doing a great job and developing your career? Simple. We will support you with a development plan, that embraces our values.

 

You’ll also receive £Competitive pay + Benefits (which includes an annual colleague bonus, contributory pension, private healthcare, life assurance, sharesave scheme, group wide colleague discounts across the Travis Perkins Group (including Toolstation).  Plus we have a number of online discounts at leading retailers from airport parking to theme parks to eating out and cinemas.  Our working hours also offer a great work life balance – most of our customers choose to enjoy their weekends and bank holidays which means you can too!

You may not know much about Travis Perkins, but if you look a bit closer you might be surprised, despite our size, we have the values of a family run business and the mindset and ambition of a forward thinking Company.  We pride ourselves on being a great place to work that’s why we have been voted one of the UK’s Top Employers every year since 2010. We offer our employees access to extensive career opportunities across our 5 leading businesses.  We operate out of more than 1400 outlets nationwide and have over 20,000 colleagues. 

Joining our friendly and hard working family as a Multi-drop Van Driver/Customer Service Assistant, you’ll be on the front line dealing with our customers both in branch and off site (when making deliveries); playing a vital role in our continued success, providing a first class service whilst keeping colleagues and customers safe at all times.

• Our success is built on strong relationships so it’s essential that you can help deliver the highest standards of service – the key thing is to be helpful and friendly, as you will likely get to know our customers on a first name basis.
• Driving our transit and flatbed vehicles (up to 3.5ton) you will carry out multi‐drop deliveries from our branch direct to our local customers and be responsible for ensuring they receive their orders on time and in one piece, safely, every time. 
• Safety is at the forefront of everything we do, your aim will be to ensure that our standards never slip, by adhering to all stay safe policies and procedures especially whilst unloading, loading and driving our vehicles. 
• Want a work life balance – Our working hours are Monday to Friday between the hours of 07:30 – 17:00, every other Saturday 08:00 – 12:00.

You will need to be an experienced driver with a minimum Cat B licence (up to 3.5ton) held for at least 12 months. Experience within our industry is advantageous but not essential as long as you have an ability to learn quickly, a strong work ethic and are physically fit.  We are looking for candidates with exceptional customer service experience, health & safety awareness, the rest we can teach you along the way. We will provide you with a great introduction into our business and provide you with all the tools needed.  

We hope you can say ‘Yes’ to all of the characteristics below – they are in the DNA of all our fantastic Van Driver/Customer Service Assistants. Are you:

• Someone that is highly adaptable, resilient and tenacious with high levels of energy and drive.
• Someone who thrives in a dynamic and fast paced environment.
• Someone with exceptional customer service experience, the ability to work under pressure efficiently and safely and a flexible attitude to work.
• Someone who is as comfortable working in branch as they are out on the road.