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Sales Assistant - Boat and Marine Supplies

621312 · Medium Next-day ready

Career data Close match

Retail sales assistants serve customers, maintain stock items and process sales and returns.

Most common salary $50k – $70k
Upper salary up to $91k
Training 0-1 year

Description

Sells boat and marine supplies in a retail or wholesale establishment.

Typical work tasks

Determines customer requirements and advises on product range, price, delivery, warranties and product use and care; sells boat and marine products such as sails, rigging, rope, motors, life-jackets, flares and safety equipment, paint and varnish, charts, electronic equipment, books and clothing; takes sales orders and prepares contracts of sale; receives orders for parts; determines part sizes and details; searches lists of parts to identify part numbers, price and availability.

Typical work environment

  • Indoor retail or wholesale shop environment.
  • Work occurs at counters or on the shop floor and employees deal directly with the public.
  • Employees will usually work in adequately heated and ventilated spaces.
  • Workspaces will usually be clean and well-maintained and set-up to provide a welcoming sales environment for customers.

Typical physical and mental demands

  • Typically light to medium work demand level.
  • Frequently stands at sales counters or walks about the workspace assisting customers, locating merchandise, shelving product or setting up shop displays.
  • 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.
  • Lifts and passes items purchased across the scanner (where used) and may need to wrap or pack goods.
  • Stretching and or twisting movements are likely to be required occasionally when moving items on the shop floor or re-stocking shelves.
  • Lifting, pulling or carrying requirements will be occasional and of a light to medium physical demand level for most of these types of products.
  • Bending, squatting or crouching movements are likely to be needed occasionally for the picking up of goods and the demonstration of certain products.
  • Repetitive hand and finger movements are frequently necessary to operate electronic tills, computers and pricing guns.
  • Driving is not likely to be required.
  • Use of office hand-held equipment such as pens or calculators will be occasional.
  • Mental skills necessary include communication, memory, recording and calculating.
Entry signal Reviewed

Enter via experience or on-the-job training; no mandatory pre-entry qualification. Flagged next-day ready.

Entry barrier Experience or on-job training
Licence / registration No licence required
ANZSCO skill level 4
Next-day ready Yes

How this was determined (model-generated): Level 4 sales assistant; experience can substitute for qualification, entered via on-the-job training.

Entry Requirements

An NZQF Level 2 or 3 qualification (ANZSCO Skill Level 4).

At least one year of relevant experience may substitute for the formal qualifications listed above. In some instances relevant experience and/or on-the-job training may be required in addition to the formal qualification.

Further Comments

  • There are opportunities for flexibility of movement.