Driver’s Mate

  • Job ref: 065/02667
  • Type: Temporary
  • Location: Ipswich, Suffolk
  • Salary: £13.50 - £15.00 per hour
  • Recruiting office: Bury St Edmunds
  • Date posted: 2 October 2026

Job details

  • Temporary
  • Ipswich, Suffolk
  • 13.5 - 15 USD / Year
  • Job Ref: 065/02667
  • Salary: £13.50 - £15.00 per hour

Driver Hire Bury St Edmunds & Ipswich

Driver’s Mate

Pay rate: £13.50 – £15

Contract: Type: Temporary

Location: Ipswich

Start Date: ASAP

We are looking for Driver’s Mate to start ASAP for our client based in Ipswich, with all the support from our experienced Driver Hire team.

The successful Driver’s Mate will receive:

£13.50 basic.

£15 overtime.

Guaranteed 10hrs per day.

28 days holiday prorated on PAYE.

Upskilling to HGV, ADR and HIAB after satisfactory probation period.

Referral Bonus – Introduce a friend to us and you receive a bonus!

What to expect as a Driver’s Mate:

Working Monday to Friday you’ll be starting between 5am – 6am. You’ll be assisting workshop waste HGV drivers with the manual aspects of the job such as:

Loading empty containers at depot – bins/drums/IBC’s,

Exchanging empties for full containers on customer sites,

Use of drum trolley/electric pallet truck and tail lift on 18T rigid box to exchange workshop waste.

Waste material is generally waste oil. No human waste.

This is a physically demanding role.

As a Driver’s Mate you must:

Able to communicate / engage with customers and colleagues, demonstrating a positive attitude to customer service

Be a reliable team player

Ability to manage physically demanding role.

Call us now on 01284 766722 or apply below – shifts available immediately!

This position is commutable from Stowmarket, Leiston, Woodbridge, Great Blakenham and other areas nearby to Ipswich.

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Driver Hire Bury St Edmunds

Welcome to Driver Hire Bury St Edmunds. We are part of a nationwide network of over 100 offices providing experienced and fully vetted Class1, Class 2, 7.5t, HIAB, ADR and van drivers, as well as a full logistics staffing solution to the transport and distribution industries. Uniquely we also offer the largest range of online CPC courses in the UK, as well as our very own DH licence checking software and other services. This enables us to provide a bespoke logistics staffing support service to all our customers. Please call us on 01284 766722 to find out more.

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