SUEZ
Re-use Shop Operative
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Contract type: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full Time - Flexible Pattern
Location: London, W3 8DJ
Hours per week: 42.5
Salary: £13.00
Summary of vacancy
Do you take pride in providing great customer service, with a background that includes retail and merchandising? Would you like to work with SUEZ, a company working for a greener UK, recovering value from what other people no longer need?
When you join SUEZ, you get more than a brand-new role. Your work will help us deliver innovative and environmentally responsible solutions for water and waste management. You will get a chance to help us preserve and restore our planet’s natural capital for future generations. It’s a career that’s not only exciting, but full of opportunities as well as professional and personal fulfilment.
About The Role
Location: Stirling Rd, London W3 8DJ
Salary: £13.00 - £14.40 per hour
Working hours: 42.50 hours per week including lunch
Shift Pattern: Monday - Friday 10:00 am - 18:30 pm
Flexible attitude to work: Shift work and weekend work will be required.
This is a full-time permanent role working five days a week (to include weekends).
Full PPE provided
SUEZ Company benefit
The ReActon shop sells a wide range of pre-owned items that would previously have gone into landfill and are now being taken out of the waste stream and put back to good use.
These Include:
- Furniture
- Bikes
- Crockery
- Tools
- Garden Furniture and ornaments
- CDs, DVDs and records
- Sports equipment
- Electrical appliances
We are looking for enthusiastic people to join our ReActon team working in our Hub!
Key Responsibilities
- Ensuring the smooth operation of the shop, and the ReActon Standard Operating procedures and Policies are adhered to
- Assessing the stock that comes into the shop and its suitability for sale.
- Requesting more stock and items for delivery partners to repair when needed
- Pricing and displaying stock in the shop.
- Serving customers and building relationships, including support and sales advice to ensure repeat custom.
- Researching items to understand stock value.
- Working with Hub Manager to deliver online selling.
- Posting items online
- Coordinating collections and delivery of items
- Merchandising of stock and ensuring that we do not sell prohibited items.
- Working with the wider team to create an understanding of what works well in the shop and what we are unable to sell.
- Ensuring the highest standards of housekeeping and cleanliness are upheld within the shop.
- Maintaining the security of the shop premises, stock and all shop monies
- Completing and submitting all necessary paperwork to the Management team
- Any other duties required to achieve the smooth and profitable running of the shop
- Reporting to the Shop Supervisor.
- Being responsible for the shop in the Supervisor’s absence
- Provide support to Delivery Partners delivering training and skills onsite
- Ensuring learners are made aware of H&S of the site
- Ensuring learners are guided to the correct places onsite
- Addressing any issues that arise through the training and education courses being offered onsite
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Skills
- Confident and positive communicator with individuals from all walks of life.
- Ability to follow procedures relating to sale of goods and dealing with returned products.
- Aptitude to influence customers’ purchasing decisions by providing accurate guidance on product and price comparisons
- Competency to use a variety of sales techniques
- Ability to help match products to the customers’ needs.
- Talent to distinguish between sellable reusable items and waste.
- An eye for quality products and ability to price second hand goods.
- Creativity to market and display products to encourage sales.
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Behaviours: If you are an enthusiastic, hardworking team player with a love for recycling and upcycling this could be the job for you.
Knowledge
- Understanding the principles of supporting the overall financial performance of the re-use shops.
- Knowledge of how to maintain appropriate levels of the right stock to meet customer demand.
- Familiarity with health and safety and trading standards and other relevant legislation.
- Awareness and understanding of equality and diversity.
- Awareness of how to take responsible decisions to minimise negative effects on the environment in all work activities.
Who We Are
At SUEZ the efficient and sustainable management of resources around the UK is at the heart of everything we do. Respect – acting ethically and with integrity – is one of our core values. We’re passionate about the environment and believe in protecting our world. With true team spirit, we can give our customers a standard of service that goes above and beyond and ensure that our local communities have access to essential water and waste services.
We thank our people for all they do with development opportunities, wide-ranging benefits and rewards that reflect their hard work. In a friendly, supportive environment, you’ll be inspired to grow and play your part in creating a better future for all.
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Closing Date: 26/10/2026
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