Approved Driving Instructor

Ocado is a highly successful online grocery delivery business. Ocado recognises the importance of our people, and the importance of having an effective and efficient Training and Development team to provide high quality training, driving assessments, and associated services to Ocado employees, to reduce their occupational road risk, enabling the company to meet its core health and safety objectives.

We are currently looking for a trainer to be part of our Service Delivery Training and Development Team. The successful candidate will be based in West Drayton with travel to various locations and must be a current DVSA ADI. Working hours will be Monday - Friday 8am - 4pm with very occasional weekend work. 

Reporting into the Region Manager, you will be an experienced ADI with a proven ability in but not limited to carrying out assessments of full licence holders and identifying areas requiring further development to improve both safety and driving skills. 

If you’re passionate about driving, training and have excellent communication skills then please read on and apply now! 

What will you be doing?

• Delivering a wide range of classroom training including: customer service, manual handling, safe systems of work and other associated workshops
• Delivering practical and theory based driver training in both classroom and on-road environments to promote the benefits of a positive driver attitude to reduce road risk
• Writing accurate reports, both verbal and written and give honest feedback
• Delivering a wide range of training and development including: customer service, manual handling, safe systems of work and other associated workshops
• Provide practical and theory based driver training and development to enhance individual risk awareness and driving skills, and promote the benefits of a positive driver attitude to reduce driver risk.
• Conducting risk assessments of potential drivers and the re-assessment of existing drivers to ensure their driving competency and suitability for their particular driving duties. Provide information on trainee performance and driving development needs.
• Assisting in the development of new initiatives for all aspects of driver training, road/driver safety and driver assessments.
• Completing all training reports and assessment summaries promptly and to a high standard. Develop a good working knowledge of the Quality Assurance process including course evaluation to enable the team to meet all objectives.

About you

• Full, clean current driving licence
• Be flexible and able to work in remote locations
• Driving Vehicle Standards Agency Approved Driving Instructor 
• Experience in the provision of light commercial vehicle driver coaching and development
• Proven ability in carrying out assessments of full licence holders and identifying areas requiring further development to improve both safety and driving skills
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and as part of a specialist team
• Good knowledge of basic  IT skills
• Full knowledge of relevant traffic regulations and codes of practice
• Knowledge of effective design/presentation skills
• Demonstrable skills in controlling and communicating with candidates
• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to motivate the timid and firmly control the strong willed in the classroom and during in-car training to ensure complete safety at all times
• Able to give meaningful, honest feedback to enable all candidates to be aware of their progress and their shortcomings.
• Sound knowledge of current vehicle technology and basic maintenance

Ocado Group is an equal opportunities employer and as such makes every effort to ensure that all potential employees are treated fairly and equally, regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, age, disability or union membership status.  

For more reasons to apply, please visit: Working at Ocado Group, Diversity & Inclusion at Ocado Group, Core Pillars

About Ocado Group 

When our journey started, we were all about changing the way people shop for groceries. 20 years later, we’re a FTSE 100 business developing our own ground breaking technology, opening multiple sites at an accelerating rate and engaging in exciting new business partnerships around the world!

Transforming an industry also means transforming the way we do business. As we continually develop new technologies and customer propositions, we’re looking for the brightest talents to lead us into the next stage of our evolution: enhancing our capabilities, inspiring our teams and developing new ways of working.

Benefits 

All Ocado employees are offered a benefits package of - 25 days holiday, 15% discount on your weekly ocado shop, pension, share options, discounts on gym memberships and family friendly offers.