Shop Porter
Shop Porter
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Job Description
A shop porter is typically a support role within a retail or hospitality environment responsible for maintaining cleanliness organization and assisting with the smooth operation of the store or shop. The specific duties can vary depending on the business but heres a general description of the role:
Key Responsibilities:
General Cleaning: Ensuring that the shop floor stockrooms and other areas of the store are clean and wellmaintained. This includes sweeping mopping dusting and emptying trash bins.
Stock Assistance: Assisting with the delivery and unloading of stock ensuring that products are properly stored and organized in the shop.
Customer Service Support: While not a frontline customer service role a shop porter may assist customers by helping them locate items carrying goods or guiding them to the right area of the shop.
Product Display Maintenance: Ensuring that shelves are neat organized and wellstocked. The porter may help replenish stock or rearrange items to maintain an attractive and accessible display.
Inventory Checks: Assisting with stocktaking or inventory management ensuring that the stock levels are accurate.
Handling Equipment: Operating machinery like pallet jacks trolleys or forklifts in some cases to help move stock around the shop or warehouse.
Health and Safety Compliance: Ensuring that the store is compliant with health and safety regulations particularly in maintaining a safe and hygienic environment for both customers and staff.
Skills and Qualities:
Physical Stamina: Since the role can involve heavy lifting cleaning and moving around the shop physical endurance is important.
Organization: Ability to keep areas tidy and ensure that items are wellorganized.
Attention to Detail: Spotting areas that need cleaning or organizing and ensuring the store meets the required standards.
Teamwork: Works closely with other staff members to ensure the shop is running smoothly.
Basic Customer Interaction: Though not directly in a customerfacing role the porter should be courteous and approachable.
Work Environment:
In general the shop porter is a versatile and essential role within the automotive service business ensuring the establishment runs smoothly behind the scenes.
Employment Type
Full-Time
