Day Warehouse Operative

At IKEA, it is so much more than a job.

We have exciting opportunities for Dayshift Warehouse Operatives based at our Exeter store in our Self-Serve Warehouse. This is a customer-facing role where you will be working in our customer warehouse (Self-Serve), main warehouse (Full-Serve), and order fulfilment.

We are offering flexible contracts to accommodate you, and a host of amazing employee benefits.

Group interview date: 20 June or 28 June (18:00 - 20:00).

Scheduled induction date: 08 and 09 July or 15 and 16 July.

WHAT WE OFFER
- IKEA is a Living Wage Foundation Employer (£10.90 an hour).
- We offer a variety of contract sizes to give you flexibility, starting from 16 hours a week up to 39 hours a week.
- We operate 7 days a week, and will do our best to accommodate your availability.
- Our busiest times are at the weekends and evenings, and evening and weekend work will be required.
- Ordinarily, work will be over 3 in 4 weekends for part-time contracts, or 1 in 2 weekends for full-time contracts.

WORKING WITH US HAS ITS REWARDS

Our co-workers bring unique ideas and talent to work every day, and we offer a variety of benefits that suit their and their family's everyday needs.
- Affordable breakfast, lunch and dinner options (including free healthy meals), as well as snacks and desserts in our staff restaurant.
- 15% staff discount on all of our IKEA products and access to our Discounts Portal to help you save £100s on high street retailers.
- Free on-site co-worker parking at our IKEA store.
- We provide you with our lovely IKEA uniform and all the tools you need to work with us.
- Holiday on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, as well as an end of year present.
- A wide range of family-friendly policies and benefits, including generous annual leave.
- Commitment to your development at IKEA starting from day one.
- Free and confidential Employee Assistance Program and Wellbeing Portal.
- Life Assurance, enhanced statutory pension contributions, and interest free loans.

WHO YOU ARE

We are looking for proactive and energetic individuals who are not afraid to work in a fast-paced, physically-demanding environment. You will enjoy manual handling, as this role will involve quite a bit of it You will use your great communication skills and attention to detail to enable a successful shopping experience for our customers by ensuring that our products are in the right place at the right time.

Ideally, for this role, you will have previous experience in either a customer-facing role or logistics/warehouse role. However, full training will be provided, and if you have a can-do attitude and an eagerness to learn, you may still be perfect for this role.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING DAY-TO-DAY
- Maximising sales by ensuring your area of responsibility is clean, tidy, fully stocked and correctly priced.
- You will take responsibility to ensure a safe working environment for yourself, your co-workers, and our customers.
- You will be picking and preparing a large volume of orders for both online and in-store collection or delivery.
- You will also be required to meet the customer in the store in our Self-Serve Warehouse, and you will use your customer service skills to provide an excellent shopping experience.
- You will use your great IT skills to use the IKEA systems to collect and prepare orders to be dispatched to our many customers.

WE CARE FOR THE PEOPLE

RECRUITMENT PROCESS INFORMATION

If you have any special requirements during the interview process, please let us know as soon as possible.

Second step: If successful, you will be invited to a Group Interview with one of our hiring managers.

Come see things a little differently with us and be part of creating a better everyday life for the many.

IKEA reserves the right to close a job vacancy earlier than originally advertised.