Reuse Sales Assistant

Reuse Sales Assistant required at Norwich South Recycling Centre

Norwich, Norfolk - NR4 6FA

£12.71/hour

35 hours per week

Monday to Friday

Norse Environmental Waste Services (NEWS) are the waste and refuse management function for Norse Group, providing a full collection service across the local region. As well as this, we also provide a Reuse where we look to sell items donated to the centre from the public.

As we continue to deliver our frontline waste and recycling services across East Anglia, we currently seek a Reuse Sales Assistant to join our Reuse Shop team.

• To be presentable and professional at all times when dealing with the public.
• Advise and assist members of the public with items specifically donated or identified by site staff with potential for reuse.
• Keep the reuse area and shop tidy, clean and safe for use by the public.
• Basic safety testing of electrical items intended for reuse (training will be provided)
• Pricing items for sale.
• Selling items directly to the public from re-use shop or via internet sales.
• Reporting of sales figures / cash taken.
• Handling cash, card and electronic payments.
• Ensuring the shop is suitably stocked with items for sale on display
• Report any near misses/accidents or incidents.
• Travel to other recycling centres and reuse shops at times, if/when needed.

• Full Clean UK Driving Licence
• Experience in a similar shop-based sales assistant role.
• Experience in dealing with the public and cash handling
• Good customer service skills.
• To be able to identify value in pre-owned items brought to the recycling centre and suitable for reuse.
• Able to undertake basic safety inspection of pre-owned items suitable for reuse and complete records. (training will be given)
• Able to manually move and lift the reusable items through the reuse process.

With the opportunity to join a fantastic team on a Full-time basis, we also offer annual leave entitlement, pension scheme and statutory sickness scheme for all our staff.

This position is being offered on a permanent full-time basis, working 35 hours per week.

Please read the job description and person specification to ensure you meet the criteria for the role before applying.

We are committed to employment practices and behaviours which encourage diversity, promote equality of treatment and eliminate unlawful and or unfair discrimination.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications. If you have not been contacted within two weeks of the date you apply, please assume that your application has not been successful and will not be progressed to the next stage.