Service Station Attendant - Tasks and specialisations

Kaihoko Penehini/Hinu

Tasks & duties

Service station attendants may do some or all of the following:
  • pump petrol into customers' cars
  • check car batteries, and oil and water levels
  • wash windscreens and check car tyres on customer request
  • sell motor accessories and food items
  • take payment for goods and give change
  • display, rotate and price stock
  • keep the shop and forecourt tidy
  • carry out minor workshop tasks such as fixing tyres
  • keep a record of account purchases
  • order new stock
  • check petrol tank levels by doing a tank dip and reading the pumps.
An attendant pumping petrol into car

Service station attendants may pump petrol for customers

Doug Thrush washing a car windscreen

Doug Thrush chats to a customer while cleaning her car windscreen

 

Updated May 2009