Apprentice Customer Service/Operations/Road-freight operator

SUREFREIGHT (INTERNATIONAL) LIMITED

Bury (BL9 7BR)

Closes in 20 days (Friday 22 August 2025)

Posted on 28 March 2025

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Summary

Immediate start at Surefreight for the right person to join our small and friendly team. You will be responsible for providing excellent customer service to our clients, resolving enquiries and ensuring customer satisfaction.

Wage

£14,722.50 to £23,809.50, depending on your age

National Minimum Wage

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Negotiable dependant on experience

Training course
Customer service practitioner (level 2)
Hours
Monday – Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

Duration

1 year 4 months

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

  • Answer phone calls and emails from customers in a timely and professional manner.

  • Maintain accurate records of customer interactions.

  • Liaise with various carriers and hauliers

  • Taking bookings by telephone and email

  • Building /creating jobs (multi-freight)

  • Customs preparation - CDS / Thyme-it / TSS entries

  • Booking in final deliveries

  • Filing and post

  • Weekly min 6 hour off the job training

Where you'll work

First Floor, Derwent House
Waterfold Business Park
Bury
BL9 7BR

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

BURY COLLEGE

Training course

Customer service practitioner (level 2)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Use a range of questioning skills, including listening and responding in a way that builds rapport, determines customer needs and expectations and achieves positive engagement and delivery.
  • Depending on your job role and work environment: Use appropriate verbal and non-verbal communication skills, along with summarising language during face-to-face communications; and/or
  • Depending on your job role and work environment: Use appropriate communication skills, along with reinforcement techniques (to confirm understanding) during non-facing customer interactions.
  • Depending on your job role and work environment: Use an appropriate ‘tone of voice’ in all communications, including written and digital, that reflect the organisation’s brand.
  • Provide clear explanations and offer options in order to help customers make choices that are mutually beneficial to both the customer and your organisation.
  • Be able to organise yourself, prioritise your own workload/activity and work to meet deadlines.
  • Demonstrate patience and calmness.
  • Show you understand the customer’s point of view.
  • Use appropriate sign-posting or resolution to meet your customers needs and manage expectations.
  • Maintain informative communication during service recovery.

Training schedule

  • CUSTOMER SERVICE PRACTITIONER L2 APPRENTICESHIP STANDARD
  • Mandatory Monthly College attendance

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

GCSE English and Maths (grade 4/C or above)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • IT skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental

Other requirements

You must be/have: • Mature and dynamic personality, which enables the focus of interaction with colleagues to be proactive. • Have good organisational skills • A good understanding of how important customer satisfaction and trust is to the business. • Proficiency in Microsoft office • Ability to work independently and part of a team • Self motivated, Enthusiasm & willingness to learn • Good communications skills, including the ability to communicate effectivity at all levels • IT literate • Time and self-management skills • Ability to work under pressure • Ability to use own initiative • Specific on the job training specific to the role

About this employer

European Roadfreight operator, distribute throughout EU & UK with partners and agents. General forwarding & UK Transport. 4 Branches in UK looking to develop new markets and grow branches.

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Company benefits

Company fleece provided 20 Days + Bank holidays Free Parking Smart casual dress code Additional training tailored to the individual’s skills, strengths and interests

After this apprenticeship

  • Subject to a successful Apprenticeship, including performance and availability, you may be employed by the company and considered for a full-time role

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

BURY COLLEGE

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000312539.

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Closes in 20 days (Friday 22 August 2025)

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