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# IT Asset Specialist - Contract

- **Company:** KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd
- **Location:** Glasgow, UK
- **Salary:** £83,200.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Excel, Spreadsheets, Databases, IT Management, Networking Hardware, Inventory Management Software, Peripherals, Computer Equipment
- **Published:** August 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/it-specialist/ko2-embedded-recruitment-solutions-ltd-job107871930

## About the Role

* Exceptional organisational skills, with a proven ability to manage high-volume inventory projects
 * Proficient with spreadsheets (Excel/Google Sheets) and databases, maintaining detailed, error-free records
 * High accuracy in recording technical specifications and serial numbers
 * Physically capable of handling, lifting, and sorting computer hardware and peripherals daily in a warehouse or office environment
 * A proactive self-starter with a commitment to a structured, organised workspace
 * Confident communicator, able to give clear updates on inventory progress

Additional Information

This is a full-time, on-site role based in the Glasgow area. The successful candidate will need to be able to commute to site daily for the duration of the contract.

## Description

Our client, based in the Glasgow area, is running a major site consolidation and integration project and needs an IT Asset Specialist to lead the physical inventory, recording and sorting of a significant volume of legacy IT hardware.

This is a hands-on, on-site role critical to ensuring a clean transition of assets during site decommissioning. You'll carry out a full manual audit of hardware across the facility, log everything accurately into a central inventory system, and categorise each item based on its future use., * Carry out a comprehensive physical audit of all IT hardware on site, including workstations, peripherals, and networking equipment

 * Create and maintain accurate digital records in a central inventory database, tracking every item by serial number and specification
 * Categorise equipment for its next stage:

 * Retain - identify assets to be moved to other sites
 * Repurpose - identify functional legacy hardware for alternative internal use
 * Recycle/Dispose - coordinate with designated recyclers for ethical disposal of non-essential equipment

Work closely with the onsite enablement team and project engineers to support decommissioning tasks, ensuring all assets are accounted for prior to site closure

Organise the physical movement of assets and prepare hardware for secure transport or disposal collection

Provide clear, regular progress updates to IT leadership and project managers


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