HGV Class 2 Driver

HGV Driver

Location: Rainham, Essex

Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 inc. overtime + London waiting

Contract: Permanent and full time, 48 hours per week

Hours: Monday to Friday, with evening and weekend overtime opportunities

Our client is a well-established, national provider of environmental and industrial services, with a strong reputation for delivering high-quality, compliant solutions across a broad range of sectors. Operating from a network of depots across the UK, they specialise in environmental protection, asset maintenance, and emergency response, supporting both commercial and public sector clients with a professional, can-do approach.

Based at the company’s Rainham depot, this is a varied, hands-on role sitting within a busy technical operations team. As a HGV Multi-Skilled Operative, you will play a key part in the day-to-day delivery of environmental and industrial services across client sites. You’ll be expected to work both independently and as a part of a team, representing the company professionally on site and contributing to a wide range of planned and reactive works.

About the role:

• Operating company HGV and other vehicles in a safe and compliant manner, including adherence to tachograph regulations

• Completing daily vehicle checks and reporting any defects to supervisors promptly

• Carrying out high pressure water jetting and industrial cleaning duties

• Responding to spills and emergency clean-ups using specialist equipment and resources

• Installing, servicing, inspecting, and decommissioning of interceptors and storage tanks

• Undertaking groundworks, remediation, and civils project support

• Preparing surfaces and spray lining using specialised equipment

• Uplifting and offloading materials in a compliant and safe manner

• Completing job reports on site, with all relevant information

• Communicating with customers on site and identifying opportunities to recommend additional services

• Participating in a standby/call-out rota, including occasional evening, weekend and away working

About you:

• Valid UK HGV Class 2 license with ideally zero points (up to 6 points may be considered)

• Must be willing to comply with both a DBS check and drug and alcohol screening

• Previous experience in a similar environmental, industrial, or multi-skilled operative role

• Experienced in completing RAMS documentation

• A flexible, can-do attitude with the ability to adapt to emergency and reactive works

• Strong team player, capable of supporting colleagues under pressure

• Right to work in the UK

Desirable but not essential:

• Valid ADR license

• Previous experience operating plant machinery

• CPCS/NPORS Excavator cert

What makes this role so great?

• ·        Competitive starting salary of £42,000 to £47,000

  ·        Regular overtime potential to increase earning opportunities

  ·        Permanent, full time role with a stable, growing national business

  ·        Genuine variety of work – no two days are the same!

  ·        Opportunities to develop skills across multiple disciplines and gain additional qualifications

  ·        Supportive team environment

 To apply for this fantastic opportunity please do forward your CV.