Order Picker CV Examples & Writing Guide
An order picker CV gets you called when the warehouse shift manager can see your pick rate and accuracy (for example 200 cases an hour at 99.8%), the equipment you are trained on (LLOP, powered pallet truck, high-level order picker, RF scanner, voice picking), your safety and attendance record, and that you can handle the shift, the cold and the manual handling. One page.
Order picker CV example (voice picker, grocery distribution, 4 years)
A one-page CV for an order picker who moved from an e-commerce fulfilment centre to a grocery distribution centre. The name and employers are invented. The numbers are the ones every warehouse tracks for you: pick rate, accuracy, attendance, safety incidents.
Luis Camacho
Warehouse Operative / Order Picker
Doncaster, South Yorkshire · 07700 900129 · luis.camacho.wh@email.com · Available for nights, weekends and overtime
Summary
Order picker with 4 years in high-volume warehouses, including nearly 3 years as a voice picker in a chilled and frozen grocery distribution centre. Averages 215 cases an hour against a 190 standard at 99.8% accuracy, trained on LLOPs, high-level order pickers and reach trucks, and has zero safety incidents and 97% attendance over 4 years. Comfortable with 10-hour night shifts, freezer work at -23°C and repeated manual handling up to 25 kg.
Experience
Order Picker (Voice Pick, Chilled and Frozen) · Grocery retailer's regional distribution centre (620,000 sq ft, 3 temperature zones, 210 stores served), Doncaster
Jan 2024–Present
- Pick full-case grocery orders using a Honeywell voice-pick headset and a long-fork low-level order picker (LLOP), building 2 pallets at a time to about 800 kg and wrapping them for store delivery.
- Average 215 cases an hour against a 190-case engineered standard (113% of standard) over the past 2 years, with 99.8% pick accuracy on weekly audits.
- Work the chill (1°C) and freezer (-23°C) chambers on 10-hour night shifts, 4 nights a week plus peak overtime; 12,000 to 14,000 cases a week in November and December.
- Zero lost-time injuries and zero product-damage write-ups since joining in January 2024; recognised in the monthly safety briefing 3 times for reporting near misses.
- Attendance 97% with no unauthorised absences; cover open shifts about twice a month when the shift manager asks.
Warehouse Order Picker · E-commerce third-party logistics warehouse (40,000 SKUs, 2 shifts), Sheffield
Jun 2022–Dec 2023
- Picked each-piece orders with an RF scanner in a 40,000-SKU warehouse management system (Manhattan), averaging 165 lines an hour at 99.7% accuracy on a 150-line target.
- Operated a high-level order picker to pick from racking up to 8.5 metres after completing accredited training and the employer's familiarisation and authorisation.
- Cross-trained on packing, replenishment and stock counting; counted about 400 locations a week with 99.5% match to system.
- Worked 6-day weeks through 2 peak seasons; picked 2,100 lines on the highest-volume day without an accuracy error.
Night Shelf Stacker · DIY and home improvement superstore (120,000 sq ft), Doncaster
May 2021–May 2022
- Unloaded 1 to 2 lorries a night with a 6-person team and filled about 900 cases a shift to planogram; used a hand pallet truck and roll cages.
Education
A-levels (3) and GCSEs including English and maths
Secondary school and sixth form, Doncaster, 2021
Certifications
- RTITB-accredited lift truck training: LLOP, high-level order picker and reach truck (2024); written authorisation from current employer
- IOSH Working Safely (2023)
- Food safety awareness for chilled and frozen distribution (employer, 2024)
Skills
What warehouse shift managers check on an order picker CV
Picker adverts get a lot of applications, and the person screening them is usually a shift manager or a recruitment agency consultant with 30 seconds each. They are looking for four things.
- Numbers: pick rate (cases, lines or units an hour) and accuracy. A picker who knows their own rate has worked somewhere that measured it, which is what the shift manager wants.
- Equipment you are already trained on: LLOP, powered pallet truck, high-level order picker, reach truck, RF scanner, voice pick. Training a new starter on a lift truck takes days; a trained one starts on the floor.
- Attendance and safety. Warehouses lose more pickers to no-shows and injuries than to anything else. An attendance percentage and "zero incidents" are worth more than any adjective.
- Fit for the shift and the environment: nights, weekends, 10- or 12-hour shifts, freezer work, overtime at peak, repeated manual handling. Say what you have done so nobody wastes an interview.
“Rate and accuracy first, then whether the person has run an order picker or a pallet jack before, then attendance. A CV that says "215 cases an hour, 99.8%, zero incidents, 97% attendance" gets a call the same day. "Hard worker, fast learner" tells nothing.”
Order picker job description for a CV: duties turned into bullets
The advert lists duties: pick orders, operate equipment, build pallets, scan items, meet productivity targets, follow safety rules. Your bullet should say how much, how fast, how accurately and with what equipment. Seven examples:
| Duty from the advert | Bullet with your numbers |
|---|---|
| Picked orders accurately and efficiently. | Picked each-piece orders with an RF scanner in a 40,000-SKU warehouse, averaging 165 lines an hour at 99.7% accuracy against a 150-line target. |
| Operated warehouse equipment. | Trained and authorised on LLOP, high-level order picker and reach truck; picked from racking up to 8.5 metres with zero equipment damage in 18 months. |
| Built and wrapped pallets for dispatch. | Built 2 pallets at a time to about 800 kg by voice pick, following heavy-to-light stacking and wrapping for store delivery; zero load-shift damage claims in 2 years. |
| Met productivity targets. | Averaged 113% of the engineered standard (215 cases an hour against 190) for 24 months; top 10 of 140 pickers on the shift in 2025. |
| Worked in cold storage. | Picked in chill (1°C) and freezer (-23°C) chambers on 10-hour night shifts, 4 nights a week, with full freezer PPE. |
| Followed safety procedures. | Completed pre-use equipment checks every shift, reported 6 near misses that led to aisle marking changes, and had zero lost-time injuries in 4 years. |
| Assisted with other warehouse tasks as needed. | Cross-trained on packing, replenishment and stock counting; counted about 400 locations a week with 99.5% match to the system. |
Order picker CV skills: equipment, systems and the physical side
List what you can do on day one. Recruitment agencies filter on equipment names, and shift managers read the list to decide which zone to put you in. Ten to twelve items, grouped.
LLOP (single and long-fork) · Powered pallet truck · High-level order picker · Reach truck · Counterbalance forklift · RF scanner picking · Voice picking (Vocollect) · Pick-to-light · Batch and zone picking · Pallet building and stretch wrapping
Warehouse management systems (Manhattan, SAP EWM, Körber, Oracle WMS) · Stock counting · Replenishment · Labelling and packing · Despatch paperwork and delivery note checks · Batch and date-code checks (food and pharma)
Repeated manual handling up to 25 kg · Standing and walking 10 to 12 miles a shift · Chilled and freezer work · 10- and 12-hour shifts, nights and weekends · Peak overtime
97% attendance over 4 years · Zero safety incidents · Covers open shifts · Trains new pickers on voice pick · Bilingual English and Spanish
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LLOP, order picker and forklift training on an order picker CV
"Order picker" in a UK warehouse can mean you or the truck. A low-level order picker (LLOP) carries you at floor level along the aisle; a high-level order picker lifts you on its platform to pick from upper racking. Do not call it a "cherry picker" on a UK CV: here that word usually means a MEWP, the aerial work platform that needs IPAF training. Here is how training for these and other lift trucks works in the UK, and how to write it.
- There is no forklift licence in the UK. Under PUWER and the HSE's Approved Code of Practice L117 (rider-operated lift trucks), you must be trained by a competent instructor on each type of truck you operate, and your employer must give you site familiarisation training and written authorisation. Many employers expect refresher training every 3 to 5 years.
- Write it exactly: "RTITB-accredited lift truck training: LLOP, high-level order picker, reach truck, 2024; written authorisation from current employer". Name each truck type; LLOP training does not cover a reach truck.
- A forklift course you took yourself (accredited training provider, agency or college) is worth listing as training, but a new employer will still assess and authorise you on its own trucks. Do not claim to be "licensed".
- IOSH Working Safely is a recognised, transferable certificate and a plus for warehouse roles; IOSH Managing Safely is for supervisors and managers.
- Food distribution centres may add food safety or HACCP awareness training; pharmaceutical and medical distribution add GDP (good distribution practice) training. List them if you completed them.
- If you have never been trained, write "willing to complete LLOP and lift truck training" in the skills or personal statement; many warehouses train pickers in the first two weeks.
Order picker personal statement and career objective examples
Two or three lines: years and warehouse type, your rate and accuracy, equipment, and your attendance or safety record. New pickers use a short career objective that says the shift they want and what they bring (reliability, physical fitness, any equipment or retail stock experience).
Order picker with 4 years in high-volume warehouses, nearly 3 in a chilled and frozen grocery distribution centre on voice pick. Averages 215 cases an hour (113% of standard) at 99.8% accuracy, trained on LLOP, high-level order picker and reach truck, zero safety incidents and 97% attendance.
Warehouse picker with 3 years in e-commerce fulfilment, each-piece picking with RF scanner at 160 to 170 lines an hour and 99.7% accuracy across 2 peak seasons. Cross-trained in packing and stock counting; trained on the high-level order picker. Available for nights and peak overtime.
Order picker with 5 years operating high-level order pickers to 9 metres in a 500,000 sq ft parts warehouse, picking about 900 lines a shift at 99.9% accuracy. Zero equipment damage in 5 years; shows new starters high-level picking and harness use.
Picker packer with 2 years in a 12-person clothing warehouse, picking and packing 250 to 300 orders a day with a 0.2% return-for-error rate. Runs the dispatch station (Royal Mail Click & Drop, DPD labels), handles returns processing, and has missed 2 shifts in 2 years.
Career objective: full-time night-shift order picker role. Reliable worker with 2 years as a night shelf stacker unloading lorries and filling 900 cases a shift, comfortable with manual handling up to 25 kg and standing 10 hours, with 96% attendance. Willing to complete LLOP and lift truck training and work weekends.
Order picker CV with no experience
Warehouses hire people with no picking experience every week, especially before peak season. What they cannot teach quickly is turning up, working at pace for ten hours and following safety rules. Your CV needs to prove those three things with whatever jobs you have had.
- Pull physical, fast-paced work out of any job: shelf stacking, supermarket online picking, fast food during a rush, removals, landscaping, farm work, site clean-up. Give a volume: cases filled, lorries unloaded, orders per hour.
- State attendance and reliability with a number wherever you can: "missed 1 shift in 14 months", "opened the shop on time for 2 years".
- List physical facts plainly: comfortable with repeated manual handling up to 25 kg, can stand and walk a full 10-hour shift, fine in a freezer, own transport for a 5am start.
- Any equipment or safety exposure counts: hand pallet truck, sack truck, safe knife handling, a forklift course at a college or training centre, an online manual handling or IOSH Working Safely course.
- Say your availability up front: nights, weekends, overtime, peak season. The picker jobs that are hardest to fill are the ones you can say yes to.
- Skip the career objective about "growing with the company"; use the example above instead. One page, no photo, no date of birth.
Format, length and keywords for an order picker CV
- One page, always. Shift managers and recruitment agencies read the top third; put your rate, equipment and attendance there.
- Order: header with availability, personal statement, experience, skills, certificates, education. Education is one line; most picker adverts ask for no formal qualifications, though GCSEs in English and maths help.
- Plain single-column layout, no photo, no graphics. Many warehouse jobs go through recruitment agencies (Adecco, Randstad, Manpower and regional agencies) or Indeed, where the text is parsed and searched.
- Use the advert's words once each where true: "order picker", "warehouse operative", "picker packer", "RF scanner", "voice pick", "LLOP", "forklift", "stock counting", "pick rate", "WMS", "freezer", "night shift".
- Titles differ by company: order picker, warehouse operative, picker packer, warehouse picker, fulfilment operative, warehouse colleague. Use your real title in the job entry and the advert's title in your personal statement.
- In the US the same job is often advertised as order selector or warehouse associate, and the document is a resume. The advice here is written for UK CVs: no photo and no date of birth.
Check the finished CV against the advert with the cvplex ATS checker. It shows which equipment, system and duty words from the advert are missing and which bullets still have no number.
Frequently asked questions
What should I put on an order picker CV?
Your pick rate and accuracy, the equipment you are trained on (LLOP, powered pallet truck, high-level order picker, reach truck, RF scanner, voice pick), the warehouse type and size, your attendance and safety record, your shift availability and physical capacity (manual handling, freezer work), and any certificates such as accredited lift truck training or IOSH Working Safely. One page.
How do I describe order picker job duties on a CV?
Turn each duty into a number: "picked 165 lines an hour at 99.7% accuracy with an RF scanner", "built 2 pallets at a time to about 800 kg by voice pick", "zero equipment damage in 18 months on a high-level order picker". Add the warehouse size and the equipment so the shift manager can picture the job.
What skills should an order picker put on a CV?
Equipment (LLOP, powered pallet truck, high-level order picker, reach truck), picking methods (RF scanner, voice pick, pick-to-light), warehouse systems (Manhattan, SAP EWM), stock counting and replenishment, pallet building and wrapping, repeated manual handling and 10- to 12-hour shifts, freezer work, and attendance and safety facts in numbers.
What is a good order picker personal statement?
Two or three lines with years and warehouse type, rate and accuracy, equipment and reliability: "Order picker with 4 years in high-volume warehouses, averaging 215 cases an hour at 99.8% accuracy, trained on LLOP, high-level order picker and reach truck, zero safety incidents and 97% attendance."
How do I write an order picker CV with no experience?
Use physical, fast-paced jobs (shelf stacking, fast food, removals, landscaping) with volumes, state attendance with a number, say what manual handling you can do and how long you can stand, add any pallet truck or safety training, and give your shift availability. Open with a short career objective naming the shift you want and that you are willing to complete lift truck training.
Should I list forklift or LLOP training on my CV?
Yes, and name each truck type. There is no forklift licence in the UK; you need training from a competent instructor for each type of truck, then your employer's familiarisation training and written authorisation. Write "RTITB-accredited lift truck training: LLOP, high-level order picker, reach truck, 2024". Courses you took yourself count as training, but the new employer will still assess you.
How long should an order picker CV be?
One page. Put your rate, accuracy, equipment and attendance in the top third, since that is all most shift managers read before deciding to call.
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