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Travis Perkins is a builders merchant.

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Travis Perkins job reviews

Showing 40 reviews

  • Best thing

    Everyday a challenge

    Worst thing

    The atmosphere has been lost after staff Cuts , more stress to deal with

    7.3

    Travis Perkins Employee, March 2024

  • Best thing

    The going home after being disrespected.

    Worst thing

    My manager bully boy .and a liar

    1.2

    Travis Perkins HGV driver, March 2024

  • Best thing

    People and progression opportunities

    Worst thing

    Long hours

    9.5

    Travis Perkins Assistant manager, March 2024

  • Best thing

    Social hours, great team

    Worst thing

    N/A

    8.9

    Travis Perkins Driver, May 2023

  • Best thing

    Just about pays the bills

    Worst thing

    Everything, would only wish this job for my absolute worst enemy

    3.2

    Travis Perkins Sales assistant, April 2023

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  • Best thing

    Remote working and easy going nature of the company.

    Worst thing

    Inability of management to understand how to modernise the company.

    9.7

    Travis Perkins Employee, April 2023

  • Best thing

    How close to home

    Worst thing

    Managers and staff

    3.4

    Travis Perkins Customer assistant, January 2023

  • Best thing

    Staff

    Worst thing

    Stress, long hours , understaffed at times

    8.3

    Travis Perkins Employee, December 2022

  • Best thing

    Customer relations

    Worst thing

    The work load l
    Not enough staff being replaced

    2.5

    Travis Perkins Yard operative, November 2022

  • Best thing

    Opportunities to progress
    Job security

    Worst thing

    Pay structure (can be pretty difficult to get fair pay rises at times)

    9.5

    Travis Perkins Supervisor, November 2022

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  • Best thing

    The people you work with, not for.

    Building relationships with customers.

    Worst thing

    Expectations outweigh your pay grade.
    Too many middle management types are out of touch and unrealistic.

    3.7

    Travis Perkins Assistant manager, October 2022

  • Best thing

    Lots of break time

    Worst thing

    Bordem

    9.8

    Travis Perkins Sales assistant, September 2022

  • Best thing

    Great team for the most part.
    Great customers mostly.
    Outside.
    Fairly basic.

    Worst thing

    Workload is very manual.
    Last minute changes in orders add stress.
    Outside no matter what.
    Fairly basic.

    8.2

    Travis Perkins Customer service, September 2022

  • Best thing

    Great training and apprenticeship opportunities. Good perks. Flexible and sociable work hours

    Worst thing

    No overtime. Telling my superiors issues and not being dealt with a sit is health and safety related

    9.6

    Travis Perkins Employee, August 2022

  • Best thing

    Time off when needed at short notice.

    Worst thing

    Pay and being understaffed.

    7.5

    Travis Perkins Employee, July 2022

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  • Best thing

    It’s Monday to Friday and I don’t work weekends

    Worst thing

    Pay and the work level

    1.0

    Travis Perkins Warehouse operative, July 2022

  • Best thing

    Good team, relaxed atmosphere

    Worst thing

    Targets and figures, pressure to call people

    6.3

    Travis Perkins Employee, June 2022

  • Best thing

    The team and customer interactions

    Worst thing

    The pressure to perform

    8.7

    Travis Perkins Assistant manager, May 2022

  • Best thing

    Flexibility in terms of if you need to go early one day.

    Worst thing

    The amount of problems you get with vehicles

    8.9

    Travis Perkins Employee, February 2022

  • Best thing

    Convenient

    Worst thing

    Low wages
    No real incentive
    No wages rises for years

    6.2

    Travis Perkins Supervisor, February 2022

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  • Best thing

    Working as a team to serve customers and assembling orders for delivery loading and offloading delivery vehicles.

    Worst thing

    Working in cold and rain

    10

    Travis Perkins Yard operative, December 2021

  • Best thing

    I love what I do but some times I can't get help lifting heavy stock items as everyone is too busy as we are short staffed

    Worst thing

    Do not get regular breaks or time for a coffee sometimes I have one drink all day

    3.2

    Travis Perkins Stock controller, September 2021

  • Best thing

    Working alone

    Worst thing

    The constant demand for more work

    5.5

    Travis Perkins HGV driver, July 2021

  • Best thing

    The people, the structure

    Worst thing

    Not enough people

    7.3

    Travis Perkins Branch manager, May 2021

  • Best thing

    Great hours. Busy challenging role

    Worst thing

    Other colleagues

    9.7

    Travis Perkins Administrator, March 2021

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  • Best thing

    Various jobs

    Worst thing

    The cold warehouse

    9.9

    Travis Perkins HGV driver, January 2021

  • Best thing

    The pay and the people (some of them anyway)

    Worst thing

    Some of the people I work with

    8.7

    Travis Perkins Warehouseman, January 2021

  • Best thing

    Family feel

    Worst thing

    Hours of work

    9.0

    Travis Perkins Branch manager, December 2020

  • Best thing

    Guaranteed hours, friendly Colleagues, some friendly customers, good breaks

    Worst thing

    Working Saturdays, some extremely rude and arrogant customers,1 or 2 staff that aren't pleasant. Can get overwhelmed by customers due to lack of staff numbers

    3.5

    Travis Perkins Forklift driver, October 2020

  • Best thing

    Learning new job skills. Personal improvement.

    Worst thing

    Stress. Lack of trust from management. Unrealistic targets. Worry at night about consequences of not finishing all my work. Have to stay late unpaid to finish my work.

    1.8

    Travis Perkins Customer assistant, August 2020

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  • Best thing

    It's the job I trained to do

    Worst thing

    The over Accountability.
    The this must be done and this and this.
    The endless emails and the expectation you will read and respond the same day

    3.0

    Travis Perkins Branch manager, July 2020

  • Best thing

    Good salary and Perks

    Worst thing

    lack of communication

    7.0

    Travis Perkins Flexible warehouse operative, July 2020

  • Best thing

    Regular pay

    Worst thing

    Stress caused by unrealistic goals

    4.3

    Travis Perkins Warehouse, June 2020

  • Worst thing

    No communication or back up from line management

    2.7

    Travis Perkins Administration, June 2020

  • Best thing

    A good variety of experience and ambition.

    Worst thing

    Branch closures and an uncerrain future

    6.3

    Travis Perkins Branch supervisor, June 2020

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  • Best thing

    Good people too work with

    9.8

    Travis Perkins Yard supervisor, June 2020

  • Best thing

    Customers

    Worst thing

    Favouritism uncaring feel like a slave and to much put on my shoulders

    1.4

    Travis Perkins Yard man, February 2020

  • Best thing

    I am my own boss on the road

    Worst thing

    To many drops in a day

    8.7

    Travis Perkins Lorry driver, October 2019

  • Best thing

    The staff I work with, The manager and driving a brand-new lorry

    Worst thing

    Overworked for one lorry

    8.4

    Travis Perkins Driver, October 2019

  • Best thing

    Indepedence

    Worst thing

    Under pressure no help

    6.2

    Travis Perkins Driver toolhire, October 2019