Jobs in Coalville

Coalville is a former mining town of about 35,000 in north-west Leicestershire, on the A511 corridor between Leicester and Burton-on-Trent. The economy here is logistics country — Bardon Hill quarry has been the centrepiece of the local employment base for over a century, and the surrounding A511 has been steadily filling up with regional distribution centres for two decades.

Tarmac (which owns Bardon Hill), Palletline, Aggregate Industries and a long string of grocery and 3PL DCs run shifts round the clock. Driving and warehouse work dominates the listings — class 1, class 2, FLT, picker/packer, transport planner, traffic clerk. Pay sits a touch above the Leicester city average because the recruitment competition is fierce — every operator on the A511 is trying to staff against the same labour pool, and the better-paid sites have been raising rates yearly.

The town centre itself is modest — Coalville's high street has thinned considerably over the past decade — but the surrounding villages (Whitwick, Thringstone, Hugglescote, Ellistown) carry the housing for the warehouse workforce. East Midlands Airport sits 10 miles north up the A50, adding another layer of logistics demand. Postcode: LE67 covers Coalville and most of the A511 industrial corridor.