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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.