Furniture Mover (Removals Porter) CV Examples & Writing Guide
A furniture mover or removals porter CV gets you hired when it shows how many moves you have done, what you can load and protect without damage, your claim rate, whether you can lead a crew, and which licences you hold: car licence, C1 or C if you have it, Driver CPC and a digital tachograph card.
Removals porter CV example (team leader, local and long distance)
This sample is for a removals porter with six years who leads a three-person crew and drives a 7.5-tonne removals lorry. The name and companies are invented. If you are a porter who does not drive, or you do furniture delivery rather than house moves, keep the layout and change the volumes and the driving section.
Deshawn Pryor
Removals Team Leader and Driver
Leeds · 07700 900154 · d.pryor.moves@email.com
Summary
Removals porter with 6 years in house and office removals, currently leading a 3-person crew on local and regional jobs. Has completed roughly 900 moves, loads a 7.5-tonne lorry high and tight, and keeps damage claims under 1 in 60 moves. C1 licence with Driver CPC and a digital tachograph card, plus 4 years of stairs and high-rise work.
Experience
Removals Team Leader and Driver · Local removals company, 14 lorries, house and small office moves
May 2022–Present
- Leads a 3-person crew on 4 to 6 jobs a week, from studio flats to 4-bedroom houses, averaging 180 to 220 moves a year.
- Drives a 7.5-tonne removals lorry on a C1 licence, carries out daily walkaround checks and keeps tachograph records, with a clean licence and no accidents or points in four years.
- Loads lorries tiered and tight so shifting does not damage goods in transit; damage claims run under 1 per 60 moves against a company average of 1 in 35.
- Wraps and protects everything before it moves: blankets and stretch wrap on wooden furniture, mattress covers, china cartons for kitchens, hardboard and door frame protectors in the home.
- Dismantles and reassembles beds, corner sofas, cots, treadmills and modular office furniture, keeping fittings bagged and labelled to the piece.
- Handles the paperwork: inventory sheets, job sheet, walkthrough with the customer at collection and delivery, and payment collection.
- Averages 4.9 stars across 140 customer reviews naming him by name, and trains new starters on wrapping and load planning.
Removals Porter and Packer · National removals and storage company, long-distance house moves
May 2020–Apr 2022
- Packed and loaded 60+ long-distance moves from 1,800 to 8,200 kg, tagging and recording every item on the inventory.
- Crated mirrors, artwork, marble tops and glass for transport, and built custom crates for 20+ high-value pieces.
- Worked in blocks of flats with lift bookings, building management rules and long carries, including 6 jobs with carries over 60 metres from lorry to door.
- Loaded and unloaded shuttle vans and storage containers, and helped hoist two oversized pieces through first-floor windows using rope and pulley with a spotter.
Furniture Delivery Driver's Mate · Furniture retailer's delivery contractor
Jun 2019–Feb 2020
- Completed 18 to 24 home deliveries a day on a two-person route, including assembly, packaging removal and customer sign-off.
- Kept damage-free delivery above 98% across roughly 4,000 stops in eight months.
Education
GCSEs including English and maths, then BTEC Level 3
Secondary school and sixth form college, Leeds, 2019
Certifications
- C1 driving licence with Driver CPC, clean licence
- Digital tachograph card and D4 medical, current
- IOSH Working Safely, 2023
- Counterbalance forklift certificate (accredited training), 2022
- Emergency First Aid at Work, current
Skills
What a removals planner or owner checks first
Removals companies hire in a hurry, especially between May and September, and they lose money on damage, no-shows and slow crews. Four things decide the call.
- Whether you can drive. A porter is easy to find; one who can legally drive the lorry is worth far more. Say your licence categories, whether you hold C1 or C with Driver CPC, whether your medical and tachograph card are current and how clean your licence is.
- Damage record. Claims per move, damage-free delivery percentage, or simply the number of moves without a claim. This is the difference between an experienced porter and a strong person.
- Load skills. Anyone can carry a box. Loading a lorry tight so nothing shifts over 400 miles is the skill that separates crews, so say it in those terms.
- Reliability and attitude with customers. On-time starts, reviews that name you, tips, repeat requests. Moving is done inside someone's home in one of their worst weeks.
“First question is always the licence and the medical. Second is the claim rate. If a CV says nine hundred moves, under one claim in sixty, C1 with a clean licence, that person can start Monday as a team leader. Most CVs I get just say "loaded and unloaded furniture".”
Licences, certificates and what to say about driving
This section is worth its own block near the top, because it changes what a company can pay you.
- Driving licence categories, and whether your licence is clean. Say how many years since your last points if it is a strong point.
- C1 or C entitlement if you hold it. Which licence you need depends on the vehicle's maximum authorised mass, so say the size of vehicles you have driven: panel van, 3.5-tonne Luton, 7.5-tonne lorry, 18-tonne rigid, articulated lorry.
- Driver CPC and a digital tachograph card, which professional driving of removals lorries over 3.5 tonnes normally requires, plus your D4 medical.
- Any experience of long-distance or overseas removals, including detailed inventories, volumes in cubic feet and the customs paperwork that comes with an international move.
- Forklift certificate, IOSH Working Safely, Emergency First Aid at Work, and a basic DBS check you already hold if the company will need one.
- If you do not drive, say so plainly and lead with your loading, packing and crew skills instead. Companies hire strong porters year round.
Removals porter personal statement examples
Removals porter and driver with 6 years in house and office removals, leading a 3-person crew on 4 to 6 jobs a week. Around 900 moves completed, damage claims under 1 in 60, and a 4.9 star average across 140 reviews. C1 licence with Driver CPC and tachograph card, and a clean four-year driving record.
Removals porter with 5 years on long-distance house moves. Packs and loads moves from 1,800 to 8,200 kg, records every item on the inventory, and builds custom crates for mirrors, artwork and marble. Comfortable with blocks of flats, lift bookings and long carries.
Removals porter with 3 years on local jobs, averaging 5 jobs a week. Wraps and pads before anything moves, works stairs and long carries without slowing the crew, and has 100% attendance across two summer peak seasons. No C1, but comfortable driving a 3.5-tonne Luton van on a standard car licence.
Delivery driver's mate with 2 years on home furniture delivery routes, completing 18 to 24 stops a day with above 98% damage-free delivery across roughly 4,000 stops. Handles assembly, packaging removal and customer sign-off, and is looking to move into house removals.
Physically fit worker seeking a removals porter position. 18 months in a warehouse handling cases up to 25 kg on 10-hour shifts with full attendance, plus two summers labouring for a landscape gardener. Full UK driving licence, comfortable with stairs and early starts, and available for weekends and peak season overtime.
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Furniture mover job description bullets, rewritten
| Generic duty | Rewritten |
|---|---|
| Loaded and unloaded furniture from lorries. | Loaded 7.5-tonne removals lorries tiered and tight for local and regional moves, with damage claims under 1 per 60 moves against a company average of 1 in 35. |
| Wrapped and protected furniture. | Padded and stretch wrapped wooden furniture, bagged mattresses, packed kitchens into china cartons, and laid hardboard and door frame protectors before any piece left the room. |
| Disassembled and reassembled furniture. | Dismantled and rebuilt beds, corner sofas, cots, treadmills and modular office systems, keeping fittings bagged and labelled to the piece so reassembly never stalled. |
| Drove the removals lorry. | Drove a 7.5-tonne removals lorry on a C1 licence with daily walkaround checks, tachograph records and a clean four-year licence covering roughly 200 jobs a year. |
| Worked with customers. | Ran walkthroughs at collection and delivery on every job, noted existing damage before loading, and averaged 4.9 stars across 140 reviews that named me on the crew. |
| Moved heavy and awkward items. | Handled pianos, safes, range cookers and oversized pieces with lifting straps, stair climbers and four-wheel dollies, including two hoists through first-floor windows with a spotter. |
| Completed removals paperwork. | Tagged and recorded inventory for 60+ long-distance moves, completed job sheets and delivery notes, and collected payment at delivery. |
| Supervised other porters. | Led a 3-person crew, assigned rooms and carry order at the start of each job, and trained 6 new starters on wrapping and load planning. |
Removals skills for a CV
- Load planning: tiering, weight distribution, load restraint, decking, filling voids so nothing shifts
- Protection: moving blankets, stretch wrap, tape, corner and edge protection, mattress and sofa covers, crating
- Packing: china cartons, wardrobe cartons, picture cartons, electronics, labelling by room
- Equipment: sack trucks, four-wheel dollies, lifting straps, stair climbers, ramps, tail lifts, hoisting gear
- Specialist items: pianos, safes, gym equipment, antiques, art, glass and marble
- Building work: lift bookings and building management rules, parking bay suspensions, long carries, tight stairwells, floor and wall protection
- Paperwork: inventory sheets, job sheets, delivery notes, walkthroughs, claim prevention notes
- Crew skills: leading a team, pacing a job, communicating with the office, handling upset customers
The traits that get removals porters taken back every summer are simple: you show up at 6.30am, you keep moving at hour nine, and you tell the customer the truth about a scratch instead of hiding it. Show those with attendance, review counts and claim numbers.
Getting a removals job with no experience
Removals companies hire porters with no background all the time, especially in the summer peak. The whole screen is whether you can do the physical work and whether you will show up on the second day.
- Lead with physical work of any kind: warehouse, labouring, construction, delivery, farm work, restaurant, gym or sports background.
- Give attendance evidence. Full attendance over a season is the strongest thing an inexperienced applicant can say.
- State your licence, your transport and whether you can start at 6 or 7am.
- Say you can lift 35 to 45 kg with a partner and work stairs in summer heat, because the planner will ask.
- Mention any customer-facing work. Porters are in people's homes, and one who can talk to a nervous customer is promoted quickly.
- Note availability for weekends and for the May to September peak, and whether you would take overnight or long-distance trips.
Format and length
- One page, or two at most. Planners read on a phone between jobs.
- Put the licence and certificate block near the top, right after the personal statement.
- Give a moves-completed number rather than only years, since job sizes vary a lot between companies.
- No photo, no date of birth. In the UK the job is usually advertised as removals porter, removals operative or removals driver, so use those words alongside furniture mover, which is the more American term.
- Mirror the advert's words: removals, house moves, local and long distance, load and unload, packing, crating, team leader, C1, Driver CPC, tachograph, claims, peak season.
- Say your availability plainly, including peak season and long-distance work. It is often what decides between two similar candidates.
Frequently asked questions
How do I write a furniture mover or removals CV?
Lead with how many moves you have completed, your damage claim rate and whether you can drive. Give each job bullets with numbers: jobs a week, load weights, stops per day, reviews, crew size. Put your licence categories, Driver CPC and tachograph card in their own block. Keep it to one or two pages.
What is a furniture mover's job description for a CV?
Protecting and wrapping furniture, dismantling and reassembling pieces, packing cartons and crating fragile items, carrying and using dollies and straps, loading lorries so nothing shifts, driving where licensed, completing inventory and job sheet paperwork, and doing walkthroughs with the customer.
What skills should a removals porter put on a CV?
Load planning and tiering, padding and wrapping, packing and crating, dismantling and reassembly, dolly and strap technique, stair and long carries, specialist items such as pianos and safes, home protection, inventory paperwork, and crew leadership if you have it.
Do I need a C1 licence to be a furniture mover?
Not for porter work, and not for vans up to 3.5 tonnes, which you can drive on a standard car licence. Removals lorries are often 7.5 tonnes or more, so C1 (or C for larger lorries) widens the jobs open to you and raises the pay, and professional driving also needs Driver CPC and a digital tachograph card. Check the category required for the vehicles the company runs.
How do I get a removals job with no experience?
Apply as a porter, especially between May and September when companies are short-handed. Build the page around physical work history, attendance, your licence and transport, and your ability to start at 6am. Say plainly that you can lift heavy items with a partner and work stairs in heat.
What numbers should a removals porter include?
Moves completed, jobs per week, load weights or cubic feet, stops per day for delivery work, damage claims per move or damage-free percentage, customer review score and count, crew size led, and years with a clean driving licence.
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