Product Recovery & Quality Co-worker

Job description

Who you are

You are passionate about sustainability and home furnishing. You enjoy working in a hands-on environment and have good attention to detail, are solution focused and have a cost-conscious mindset. You value giving products a second chance while keeping quality, compliance, circularity, and sustainability top of mind. A Product Recovery & Quality Co-worker has:
• A passion for building furniture and working with our products and our sustainability initiatives
• A ‘Togetherness’ mindset where you’ll work closely with your team and other departments yet also be able to work independently
• Problem solving ability and be able to think outside of the box
• Experience with regular use of computers and IT systems
• Strong customer focus, ensuring we keep the customer in mind no matter what we do
• Ability to prioritise tasks in a fast-paced environment
• A safe mindset, and being comfortable with physical work and manual handling including repetitive heavy lifting

Your responsibilities

As Product Recovery & Quality Co-worker your responsibilities will include, but not limited to:
• Ability to make decisions with how and which products are provided a second chance whilst maintaining quality, compliance, circularity and sustainability
• Unpacking, sorting and recovering a mix of pallets consisting of discontinued and damaged stock
• Building and taking apart furniture where needed
• Supporting the team to ensure all written-off, damaged or returned items are transferred to Recovery

Together as a team

The Recovery department is a vital link in the success of the business working to recover costs by minimising internal damages through repacking, building and selling both damaged goods and customer returns. As the busy hub of every
IKEA store, a fantastic opportunity awaits those seeking a deeper understanding of the commercial internal processes and our product range. Championing sustainability and quality, this department will allow you to sink your teeth into
some complex problem solving.

IKEA believes in equal pay for work of equal value.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

We offer many benefits at IKEA other than just having the opportunity to work for a global company! Along with a focus on your personal and career development goals and being a part of an inclusive culture driven by values, you will be entitled to great initiatives including above award rates, penalty rates (including Sundays and public holidays), annual leave loading, co-worker discount, subsidised meals in our co-worker restaurant, free parking and our TACK! loyalty program. If you’re interested in working with us, apply now!

These roles are permanent part time, 30hrs/fortnight