Shelf Filler
891211 · Very Heavy Next-day ready Career data Verified
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
Fills up shelves and display areas in a store or supermarket.
Typical work tasks
- Placing goods neatly in bins and on racks, and stacking bulky goods on floors; filling shelves with goods ensuring goods with the earliest use-by dates are at the front of shelves; noting what has been sold and collecting goods needed from the stockroom using a trolley; maintaining shelf order by removing stock belonging to a different location; may help customers find goods they need; may price goods.
Typical work environment
- Works predominantly indoors in supermarkets and warehouses.
- Work environments will be adequately heated and ventilated. However, some work may occur in cold conditions of chillers or refrigerators.
Typical physical and mental demands
- Up to very heavy physical demand
- Constantly stands, walks and moves about the worksite as required. Does not usually sit.
- Stretching up or across is an occasional to frequent requirement, depending upon the specific work tasks being undertaken.
- Squatting or crouching movements are occasionally to frequently required.
- Twisting of the body or neck is an occasional to frequent requirement.
- Contact with skin irritants or water is not a significant component of the job.
- Lifting, carrying, pulling or pushing is frequently to constantly required.
- Climbing ladders or steps with loads is a frequent requirement.
- Repetitive movements are frequently required for many tasks such as pricing, stacking and moving stock.
- Driving is not a significant component of the job.
- Uses a wide range of hand tools include craft knives, pricing guns and pallet trolleys.
- Bending is a frequent requirement, especially where lifting is required.
- Mental skills necessary include practical and organisation capabilities.
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): Shelf filler, nil requirements — start now.
Entry Requirements
- Nil (ANZSCO Skill Level 5).
Further Comments
- There are opportunities for flexibility of movement but they are limited.