Trainee & Qualified Bus Driver

  • Location: Stagecoach, Perth
  • Hours: Minimum 39
  • Salary: £23-£30k per year

Are you sick of being sat behind a desk? Bored of the same four walls? If so, bus driving may be the career for you!

Don’t stop reading when we say “bus driver” (humour us and read on) – there’s so much more to it than you may think, and it’s so much more rewarding than you’d expect!

You’ll be the face of our business – playing an incredibly important role each and every day safely and comfortably transporting our fantastic customers to work, to the high street, to our cities and towns, to healthcare and community services, to days away and nights out.

We’re relying on you to give them a fantastic journey to remember with your focus on all things customer. You’ll need to operate the bus safely of course, but we’ll teach you all of that for free in our in-house training school.

If that’s not enough, you’ll be part of an incredible family. We employ over 150 colleagues in Perth alone, and 25,000 across the UK. You’ll be part of one of the UK’s greatest business success stories, driving us forward (sorry about the pun!) to even bigger success.

Aside from the reward of delivering an incredible experience to our customers, there’s plenty more we can offer:

  • Job security – we’ve been going since 1980, we turnover £1.3bn per year, and we’re not planning on hanging our boots up anytime soon!
  • Free travel – for you and your companion on our buses. That means on your days off (of which there are plenty!) you can be off shopping for free without worrying about parking the car, or heading off for a day in the city without paying a fortune in petrol or train fares!
  • A great regular income – paid weekly so it’s never too long between pay cheques (not that we pay be cheque – straight into your account every Friday!)
  • A brilliant working environment – you’re not stuck at a desk, and your boss isn’t stood over you. You’re out and about, trusted to look after our customers and enjoy yourself while you’re doing just that.
  • A skill for life – we’ll teach you to drive a bus. We’ll pass on our expertise so you drive it with as much ease as you do your everyday car.
  • Promotions – want to start by driving a bus but want to fly up the ladder? Great! We’ve got plenty of colleagues who started life as a driver but are now Inspectors, Trainers and Managers within our business. Likewise, if you’re happy driving a bus and nothing else, that’s absolutely fine by us.
  • UK wide opportunities – fancy a move to Devon in a few years but not sure how you’d get a job there? Other half is keen to live in Yorkshire? You decide to go to university in London? We run bus companies across the country so if you do move from Perth, rest assured you’ll be okay for employment!

There are only two things we need from you:

  1. A driving license with no more than 6 penalty points on it.
  2. A passion for delivering a great customer experience.

And that’s it…we’ll help you with everything else you need to know!

So if you like the sound of being a professional driver and customer ambassador for Stagecoach East Scotland, click Apply Now! We can’t wait to get your application!

Apply online through our career website

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Closing Date: 10 December 2019