About the Role
As an experienced Upholsterer, you will play a key role in crafting high‑quality furniture, taking pieces from frame preparation and spring fitting to final fabric or leather upholstery. Working within a collaborative team, you will uphold our exacting standards of craftsmanship while maintaining a safe, efficient, and clean workspace.
Benefits
- Competitive Pay: £14.50 per hour until fully trained and piecework with potential earnings of £30–£40k per annum
- Shifts: PM Shift Monday to Thursday – 2.00pm to 12.20am
- Location: Somercotes, Derby, DE554QQ
- Growth and Training: Learn new skills and develop your career with us.
- Generous holiday allowance – the longer you’re with us, the more time you’ll get. Opportunity to purchase additional holidays each year.
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave: to give you the time you need to settle in with your new family member.
- Discounts: 30% off DFS and Sofology products for yourself, discounts for friends and family and cashback at hundreds of retailers.
- Well‑being Perks: Access healthcare services, an Employee Assistance Programme, and discounted gym memberships.
- Pension and Savings: Join our Group Pension and Share save schemes.
- Life Assurance & Sick Pay: Peace of mind with Life Assurance and Company Sick Pay.
Responsibilities
- Being self‑motivated to produce high‑quality upholstered products in line with specifications
- Ensuring all products produced are of the highest quality and ready to go to our customers
- Preparing frames for upholstery including adding different foams and fibres
- Using a range of springs to ensure our products are prepared for upholstery
- Filling cushions using different fillings to complete the product
- Working with a large range of materials including fabrics and leathers to upholster our products
- Cutting various materials ready for upholstery
- Ensuring tension and straining methods are used when positioning materials
- Using a range of trimmings and finishings including buttons, facings, piping and decorative studs
- Using compressed air equipment like staple guns as well as hand tools
- Creating different types of pleats including scroll arm, envelope and puckering
- Ensuring you work as part of a team on piece work production, to ensure manufacturing runs smoothly
- Maintaining your knowledge of all DFS products to ensure you know the specifications
- Ensuring that the Company’s Health and Safety Policies are applied and adhered to
- Ensuring your workspace is tidy and not causing any obstruction for you or your colleagues
- Assisting on other areas of manufacturing
Qualifications
- You have upholstery experience
- Hands‑on experience working with power tools
- Can work in a high‑pressure and high‑volume environment
- A keen eye for detail
- Logical problem solver
- Organised
- Highly motivated
Our Commitment to Inclusion
We’re committed to a culture where everyone feels welcome, valued, and can thrive at work. We celebrate diverse voices, champion inclusion, and support each other through our growing colleague networks. We invest in partnerships that drive change, from introducing the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower and supporting Doncaster Pride, to partnering with CarersUK and developing leaders with Diversity in Retail.
We’re proud to be an equal‑opportunities employer, committed to building a workplace that reflects the communities we serve. So, if your experience doesn’t quite match the specification, we would still really love to hear from you.
All roles are subject to satisfactory DBS checks.
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