Brakes
Class 1 Driver
Class 1 Driver at Brakes, based in Derby, East Midlands, paying £40,482 per annum. This is a permanent role.
- Pay
- £40,482 per annum
- Hours and contract
- Permanent · On site
- Location
- Derby, East Midlands
- Closing date
- Sector
- HGV Driving
- HGV Class 1
- Driver CPC
About 17% above the going rate for hgv driving
Reference 57510114
About the role
Job Description
Class 1 Driver
Location: Derby
Salary upto £40,482 (dependent on experience)
Working Hours: Any consecutive 5 from 7
Take your driving career to the next level with Fairfax Meadow, part of Sysco GB. Fairfax Meadow is the UK’s favourite foodservice catering butcher and have been putting great meat on the menu for over 50 years. Join us as a Class 1 Driver and help us to keep even more people happy.
A satisfying role
As a dual temperature-controlled lorry driver, you’ll work at the heart of our business, expertly delivering our fantastic, chilled, and frozen products to customer depots. Building strong relationships with clients across our network, you’ll deliver to set time windows, maintain food hygiene standards, minimise any damages and meet the highest standards of health and safety. Keeping accurate records and resolving depot and customer issues, you’ll enjoy a varied role and all the support and training you need.
What you bring to the mix
A friendly, focussed and physically fit person, with an eye for detail, you have everything it takes to succeed with Fairfax Meadow:
- Experience as a Class 1 driver with valid CPC cards.
- A passion for providing the highest standard of customer service.
- Great communication skills.
- A love of working in a team.
- Experience as a food service and/or logistics driver.
- Experience of using MHE such as pump trucks
Bags of benefits
The facilities and working environment at our Derby site include benefits such as pension scheme, generous holiday, health cash plan, discount scheme, wellbeing initiatives, Christmas hamper and ongoing training. You’ll also get fantastic discounts from our staff shop.
Reference: 57510114 · Posted 13 hours ago · Closes 13 Dec 2026 · Listed via Brakes
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