Motor Vehicle or Caravan Salesperson

621311 · Light Next-day ready

Sells new and used motorcars, motorcycles, trucks, boats and caravans in a retail or wholesale establishment.

Determines customer requirements and advises on product range, price, delivery, warranties and product use and care; shows vehicles to customers and test drives vehicles with customers; sells motor vehicles and vehicle products such as parts, tyres, lubricating oils, batteries, car stereos and alarms; takes sales orders and prepares contracts of sale.

Outdoor and indoor work, car yards retail/warehousing areas.
Deals directly with the public.
Sales assistants will usually work in adequately heated and ventilated spaces. Outdoor car yard work will necessitate exposure to all weathers.
Workspaces will usually be clean and well-maintained and set-up to provide a welcoming sales environment for customers.

Sedentary to light work demand level.
Frequently requires standing or walking about the workspace to assist customers and locate certain vehicles.
Sits when participating in test drives or preparing contracts of sale or organising warrants and registrations for vehicles.
Manually or electronically enters customer purchases into the till, receives cash, cheques, eftpos and credit card payments and processes these and issues receipts. May issue customers sales invoices.
Bending, squatting or crouching movements are likely to be needed only occasionally, for example when inspecting car tyres.
Repetitive hand and finger movements are necessary when operating electronic tills and computers.
Driving is likely to be required in order to assist with vehicle deliveries, moving of vehicles in the car yard and undertaking test drives.
Use of office hand-held equipment such as pens or calculators will be occasional.
Mental skills needed include communication, memory, recording and calculating.

Entry signal Reviewed

No formal entry barrier — can start without prior training. Flagged next-day ready.

Entry barrier No formal entry barrier

Licence / registration No licence required

ANZSCO skill level 5

Next-day ready Yes

How this was determined (model-generated): Motor vehicle salesperson, Nil entry requirements (Level 5); no licence gate.