Returns Investigation & Resolution Techologist
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Coventry Store Support Centre - Ansty Park and Home, Coventry, CV7 9RD
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Argos
Closing date: 01 September 2026
Requisition ID: 400065408
When a product fails, understanding why is critical. As a Returns Investigation & Resolution Technologist, you'll go beyond reviewing data and customer complaints. You'll get hands-on with products, carrying out detailed fault investigations, disassembling items, conducting basic electrical testing and identifying root causes that drive meaningful improvements.
You'll play a key role in improving product quality across a diverse range of electrical and general merchandise products. From investigating serious customer complaints to influencing supplier corrective actions, your work will directly impact the products our customers buy and trust every day.
This is a hands-on technical investigation role. We're particularly interested in candidates who have experience diagnosing faults and analysing electrical or technical consumer products, rather than purely complaints, returns or quality reporting roles.
What You'll Do
Carry out hands-on product investigations, including disassembly, fault-finding and electrical testing, to determine root causes of failures.
Analyse returned products and customer complaints, combining technical findings with returns data to identify recurring issues and emerging trends.
Work closely with Product Technologists and suppliers to implement corrective actions that improve product performance and reduce future returns.
Produce detailed investigation reports, translating technical findings into clear recommendations for stakeholders.
Support quality reviews, supplier visits and product assessments, ensuring issues are resolved thoroughly and effectively.
Who You Are
You'll have experience investigating faults in electrical or technical consumer products and be comfortable getting hands-on with products to understand how and why they have failed. This isn't a desk-based quality or complaints role. We're looking for someone who enjoys product analysis, fault diagnosis and root cause investigation.
You may have gained your experience within a retailer, manufacturer, testing environment, supplier or service provider, but you'll be able to demonstrate a strong understanding of electrical or technical products and a track record of resolving product quality issues through practical investigation.
Essential Criteria
- Experience investigating faults in electrical or technical consumer products.
- Hands-on product analysis experience, including disassembly, fault-finding and electrical testing.
- Strong understanding of root cause analysis and product quality investigation.
- Experience producing technical reports and presenting findings to stakeholders.
- Ability to interpret returns, complaints and product performance data to identify trends.
- Confident influencing suppliers and cross-functional teams to drive corrective actions.
- Comfortable managing multiple investigations and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme. Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
