Job Vacancy: Driver’s Mate

Who are we?

JERICHO is a charity and family of seven social enterprises that provide supported work opportunities for people facing challenges in getting a job. These challenges could include trauma, insufficient work experience, health and wellbeing needs, education barriers and communication difficulties. Currently we primarily support survivors of modern slavery and young people.

About the Wood Shack

Our Wood Shack social enterprise reclaims, reuses and recycles wood. There are 3 main aspects of the Wood Shack; wood collections, the wood yard, and production.

Our collection team go out daily to collect ‘waste’ timber from construction and manufacturing sites and bring as much re-useable timber back to site as possible.

The wood yard then sorts and sells this wood to the public, local schools and businesses, ensuring that no wood goes to landfill.

We also use this reclaimed wood to make a small selection of set-product.

What’s the job?

We are looking for a driver’s mate to join the collections team to go out onto building and manufacturing sites to collect waste timber.

The driver’s mate will work alongside one of two drivers on a daily basis to attend sites and assist with the manual loading and unloading of the vans. They will be working on a range of sites, including HS2 sites, so they must adhere to strict health and safety procedures at all times. There will also be deliveries to be completed

Please be aware that this is a manual job, that requires working in all weathers, so you must be able to climb onto the back of vans, and safely lift pallets and full plywood sheets.

• Job Title: Driver’s Mate

• Salary: £22,308

• Full-time Permanent

• Annual leave: 20 days plus bank holidays plus an additional day off for every year of completed service, up to 5 years

• Working hours: 37.5 hours across Mon-Fri

• Reports to: The Wood Shack Manager

• Based at: The Wood Shack, Norris Way, Sutton Coldfield, B75 7BB

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Support the van drivers, including but not limited to road directions, answering the phone and being safe on the roads

• Call ahead to site managers and customers who are receiving deliveries confirming arrangements

• Safely, manually load the van with any waste timber – working under the guidance and supervision of the drivers

• Ensure paperwork is correctly completed by site managers and book in future collections if required

• Use banksman skills to guide the drivers when parking and tipping up the waste wood

• Assist with deliveries, calling ahead, locating the house and unloading wood into a suitable location

• Follow all site health and safety requirements at all times, including wearing appropriate PPE

• If there is time at the end of the day, then the driver’s mate will get involved with the processing and de-nailing of wood, as well as breaking up pallets

Other activities

• Undertake training in-house or off site as agreed with the Manager, in addition to routine training for Health and Safety and First Aid or any other training agreed with the Manager

• Any other reasonable duties the Manager asks of you

Personal Specification

Essential:

• CSCS card

• Banksman training

• Experience of working as part of a team

• Commitment to and passion for our social and environmental aims

• Experience with following strict health and safety requirements

• Physically able to lift wood and work in any weather

Desirable:

• Health and Safety and/ or First aid qualification

• Medically fit for Safety Critical Work certificate

• Driver’s licence

• Able to drive company vehicles on occasion

• An interest in wood, woodlands and /or carpentry