Truck Driver
Visa sponsorship
Logistics · Christchurch, New Zealand · Full-Time · $30 - $34/hr · Visa: Employer sponsored
Drive heavy vehicles for Christchurch civil and infrastructure work. The Class 5 role transports aggregate, chip seal, machinery and equipment and includes practical assistance to site crews. Drivers need genuine truck and trailer or articulated experience and safe operating habits around active construction.
Sponsorship is available for eligible suitably experienced candidates.
An English CV should identify your Class 5 Driver Licence and WTR Endorsement alongside civil transport experience. build a Christchurch civil transport truck driver CV with examples of quarry cartage, machinery loads and safe load securing. Describe transmissions, combinations and any civil equipment you operate.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive Class 5 trucks for civil and infrastructure projects, moving aggregate and chip seal between quarries and sites and transporting heavy equipment and machinery.
- Operate truck and trailer or articulated combinations with road ranger and automatic transmissions.
- Tip, spread, jack-knife and load or self-load materials with suitable equipment.
- Operate excavators, loaders, rollers or similar plant as required and assist practical site work with civil crews.
- Check vehicles and equipment routinely, secure loads properly and comply with workplace safety and transport requirements.
Requirements & Eligibility
- Full Class 5 Driver Licence and WTR Endorsement, with solid heavy vehicle and proven truck and trailer or articulated driving.
- Road ranger or automatic truck experience, civil transport or aggregate cartage and heavy machinery transport experience.
- Tipping, spreading and jack-knife experience is preferred; civil equipment operation experience is preferred.
- Genuine, verifiable employment experience, serious safe driving and site habits and willingness for hands-on site duties.
- Available Monday to Friday days with flexibility for occasional Saturdays.
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