' It would be no surprise to us that you’ve never considered Tool and Plant Hire as a career, in fact, a number of our managers and directors can say the same thing but have successfully carved out a successful career in an industry they’ve grown to love. Take Charlotte as an example. Charlotte joined us on our Tool Hire Development Programme after working in the care sector and is now an Assistant Manager in our Wycombe branch. You can read about Charlotte’s story here .

Key Responsibilities:

No one day is the same as the next in TP branch life, but here are a few pointers:

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  Ordering, replenishing and merchandising of branch stock levels inside the sales shop area.
• General day to day counter sales and customer ledger building
• Servicing and Testing our ToolHire equipment (6 month training course to be given)
• Forklift Truck Operations
• Potential to expand into delivery driver roles.

What experience do you need?

This is a key customer facing role, you just need the ability to provide great customer service, we can teach you the rest.

Does this sound like you?

We hope you can say ‘Yes’ to all of the characteristics below - they are in the DNA of all our fantastic Customer Sales Assistants. Are you:

• Someone that is highly adaptable, resilient and tenacious with high levels of energy and drive.
• Someone who thrives in a dynamic and fast paced environment.
• Someone that has a friendly and outgoing personality who is happy to communicate face to face with customers and build strong relationships

Being a Customer Sales Assistant in TP gives you a fantastic opportunity to excel and to continue to develop your career, if you choose. As a new colleague you will be encouraged to enroll onto a TP development scheme - which are available to colleagues and managers at all levels of our business. How will you know you are doing a great job and developing your career? Simple. We will support you with a development plan, that embraces our values.

You’ll also receive £Competitive pay + Benefits (which includes a half yearly colleague bonus, contributory pension, private healthcare, life assurance, sharesave scheme, group wide colleague discounts across the Travis Perkins Group (including Toolstation). Plus we have a number of online discounts at leading retailers from airport parking to theme parks to eating out and cinemas. Our working hours also offer a great work life balance - most of our customers choose to enjoy their weekends and bank holidays which means you can too!

You may not know much about Travis Perkins, but if you look a bit closer you might be surprised, despite our size, we have the values of a family run business and the mindset and ambition of a forward thinking Company. We pride ourselves on being a great place to work that's why we have been voted one of the UK’s Top Employers every year since 2010. We offer our employees access to extensive career opportunities across our 5 leading businesses. We operate out of more than 1400 outlets nationwide and have over 20,000 colleagues.