Trainee Class 2 Driver
Title: Trainee Class 2 Driver
Function: Distribution
Contract: Full-time, Permanent
Hours: 43 hours per week, starting between 03:30 and 04:00, on a 5 over 7 rolling rota
Location: Newton Abbott
Salary: £581.09 per week (rising to £756.46 per week upon completion and move into Class 2 position)
Do you have your class B car licence with the desire to further your career and gain your Class 2 licence, with all of the costs of your training and licence taken care of?
Essential Ingredients
To join the Warburtons family, you’ll need a full current UK Driving Licence with no more than 6 points. You’ll also have a good knowledge of transport legislation, be reliable, responsible, customer focused and used to working in a fast paced environment, ideally with multi drop or home delivery experience and ideally previous experience of picking orders.
The Recipe
- Be supported by the driver training teams in an intensive training course, to gain your Class 2 Licence, with no cost to you.
- Ongoing fully funded Driver CPC (Your Driver CPC training is in work hours too, not outside of them)
- Be an early riser. Your shift will start at around 3.30am, so it’s an early start, but your afternoons will be your own.
- You will also enjoy plenty of autonomy. As a driver you’ll be given delivery notes (or an electronic device), from which you’ll accurately pick the orders (either prior to leaving or out on your route) and load your vehicle with bakery products.
- Work set contracted hours and have stable shift patterns. That’s 43 hours a week, working a rotating 5 days including weekends, although a typical week can be less than that. All of which will hopefully help you to plan your life around work more easily.
About Us
Our Newton Abbot Distribution Depot is Warburton’s most southernly site, nestled in the foothills of Dartmoor National Park and less than 10 miles from the nearest beach in South Devon. We operate
around 42 delivery routes every day which zigzag their way across the West Country peninsula from Poole, to Weston-Super-Mare, all the way down the coast to Lands’ End.
As the UK’s No.1 bakery brand, we’ve been baking up a storm since 1876. Today, we’re a proud sixth-generation family business, delivering over 70 products to more than 18,000 retail customers from 11 bakeries and 16 depots—including gluten and wheat-free options.
We’re committed to becoming a net-zero business by 2050 and are passionate about minimising our environmental impact while making a positive difference in the communities we serve.
Extra Dough
And last but by no means yeast... what’s your bread worth?
- Basic Weekly Pay of £581.09 (rising to £756.46 upon completion and move into the Class 2 position)
- A slice of the profits (discretionary annual profit share)
- Ongoing CPC Modules (Your training is during working hours—so no need to give up your free time)
- Award-winning pension scheme with company contributions up to 7% (Rising to 12% with length of service)
- Life assurance
- Product you’ll love, plus deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough platform
- Continued investment in your personal development
- Kitchens fully stocked with our tasty products—perfect to enjoy with your daily brew
We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do.
