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.

Service station attendants may pump petrol for customers

Doug Thrush chats to a customer while cleaning her car windscreen
Updated
May 2009