Order Picker Resume Examples & Writing Guide
An order picker resume gets you called when the warehouse supervisor can see your pick rate and accuracy (for example 200 cases an hour at 99.8%), the equipment you are trained on (electric pallet jack, order picker forklift, RF scanner, voice picking), your safety and attendance record, and that you can handle the shift, the cold and the lifting. One page.
Order picker resume example (order selector, grocery distribution, 4 years)
A one-page resume for an order selector who moved from an e-commerce fulfillment center to a grocery distribution center. The name and employers are invented. The numbers are the ones every warehouse tracks for you: pick rate, accuracy, attendance, safety incidents.
Luis Camacho
Order Selector / Warehouse Order Picker
Fort Worth, TX · (817) 555-0129 · luis.camacho.wh@email.com · Available for nights, weekends and overtime
Summary
Order picker with 4 years in high-volume warehouses, including 2 years as a voice-pick order selector in a refrigerated grocery distribution center. Averages 215 cases an hour against a 190 standard at 99.8% accuracy, certified on electric pallet jacks, order picker (cherry picker) forklifts and reach trucks, and has zero safety incidents and 97% attendance over 4 years. Comfortable with 10-hour night shifts, freezer work to minus 10 degrees and lifting 50 pounds repeatedly.
Experience
Order Selector (Voice Pick, Perishables) · Lone Star Grocery Distribution (620,000 sq ft DC, 3 temperature zones, 210 stores served), Fort Worth, TX
Jan 2024–Present
- Select full-case grocery orders using a Honeywell voice-pick headset and a double electric pallet jack, building 2 pallets at a time to 1,800 pounds and wrapping them for store delivery.
- Average 215 cases an hour against a 190-case engineered standard (113% of standard) over 2 years, with 99.8% pick accuracy on weekly audits.
- Work the cooler (34°F) and freezer (minus 10°F) zones in 10-hour night shifts, 4 nights a week plus peak overtime; 12,000 to 14,000 cases a week in November and December.
- Zero recordable injuries and zero product-damage write-ups in 2 years; recognized in the monthly safety huddle 3 times for reporting near-misses.
- Attendance 97% with no unexcused absences; cover open shifts about twice a month at supervisor request.
Warehouse Order Picker · SwiftBox Fulfillment (e-commerce third-party logistics, 40,000 SKUs, 2 shifts), Arlington, TX
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 an order picker (cherry picker) forklift to pull from racking up to 28 feet after completing the employer's powered industrial truck training and evaluation.
- Cross-trained on packing, replenishment and cycle counting; counted about 400 locations a week with 99.5% match to system.
- Worked mandatory 6-day weeks through 2 peak seasons; picked 2,100 lines on the highest-volume day without an accuracy error.
Overnight Stocker · Metro Home and Hardware (big-box retail, 120,000 sq ft store), Arlington, TX
May 2021–May 2022
- Unloaded 1 to 2 trailers a night with a 6-person crew and stocked about 900 cases a shift to planogram; operated a manual pallet jack and a stock cart.
Education
High School Diploma
Arlington Heights High School, Fort Worth, TX, 2021
Certifications
- Powered Industrial Truck Operator, employer training and evaluation per OSHA 29 CFR 1910.178: electric pallet jack, order picker and reach truck (2024, valid 3 years)
- OSHA 10-Hour General Industry (2023)
- Food Safety Awareness training for distribution (employer, 2024)
Skills
What warehouse supervisors check on an order picker resume
Picker postings get a lot of applications, and the person screening them is usually an operations supervisor or a staffing agency recruiter 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 supervisor wants.
- Equipment you are already trained on: electric pallet jack, order picker or cherry picker forklift, reach truck, RF scanner, voice pick. Training a new hire on a forklift 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, mandatory overtime at peak, lifting 50 pounds. 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 resume 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 resume: duties turned into bullets
The posting lists duties: pick orders, operate equipment, build pallets, scan items, meet productivity goals, follow safety rules. Your bullet should say how much, how fast, how accurately and with what equipment. Seven examples:
| Duty from the posting | 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. | Certified on electric pallet jack, order picker forklift and reach truck; pulled cases from racking up to 28 feet with zero equipment damage in 18 months. |
| Built and wrapped pallets for shipping. | Built 2 pallets at a time to 1,800 pounds by voice pick, following heavy-to-light stacking and wrapping for store delivery; zero load-shift damage claims in 2 years. |
| Met productivity standards. | Averaged 113% of the engineered standard (215 cases an hour against 190) for 24 months; top 10 of 140 selectors on the shift in 2025. |
| Worked in cold storage. | Selected in cooler (34°F) and freezer (minus 10°F) zones on 10-hour night shifts, 4 nights a week, with full freezer PPE. |
| Followed safety procedures. | Completed pre-shift equipment inspections every shift, reported 6 near-misses that led to aisle marking changes, and had zero recordable injuries in 4 years. |
| Assisted with other warehouse tasks as needed. | Cross-trained on packing, replenishment and cycle counting; counted about 400 locations a week with 99.5% match to the system. |
Order picker resume skills: equipment, systems and the physical side
List what you can do on day one. Staffing agencies filter on equipment names, and supervisors read the list to decide which zone to put you in. Ten to twelve items, grouped.
Electric pallet jack (single and double) · Order picker / cherry picker forklift · Reach truck · Sit-down 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) · Cycle counting · Replenishment · Labeling and packing · Shipping paperwork and BOL checks · Lot and date-code checks (food and pharma)
Lifting 50 to 70 pounds repeatedly · Standing and walking 10 to 12 miles a shift · Freezer and cooler work · 10- and 12-hour shifts, nights and weekends · Mandatory 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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Forklift and cherry picker certification on an order picker resume
"Cherry picker" on a warehouse resume means the order picker forklift, the stand-up truck that lifts you with the platform to pick from high racking (not the aerial boom lift used by utility crews). Here is how certification for it and other powered trucks really works in the US, and how to write it.
- There is no national forklift license. OSHA (29 CFR 1910.178) requires the employer to train and evaluate you on each type of truck you operate and to re-evaluate at least every 3 years. The certificate is issued by the employer or by a training company on the employer's behalf.
- Write it exactly: "Powered Industrial Truck Operator, employer training and evaluation (OSHA 1910.178): electric pallet jack, order picker, reach truck, 2024". Name each truck type; a pallet jack card does not cover a reach truck.
- A third-party forklift course (community college, staffing agency, online plus hands-on evaluation) is worth listing as training, but a new employer will still evaluate you on their equipment. Do not claim to be "licensed".
- OSHA 10-Hour General Industry is a real, transferable certificate and a plus for warehouse roles; OSHA 30 is for supervisors.
- Food distribution centers may add a food safety awareness or HACCP basics module; pharma and medical distribution add GDP (good distribution practice) training. List them if you completed them.
- If you have never been certified, say "willing to complete forklift training" in the skills or summary; most warehouses train pickers in the first two weeks.
Order picker resume summary and 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 objective that says the shift they want and what they bring (reliability, physical fitness, any equipment or retail stock experience).
Order selector with 4 years in high-volume warehouses, 2 in a refrigerated grocery DC on voice pick. Averages 215 cases an hour (113% of standard) at 99.8% accuracy, certified on electric pallet jack, order picker and reach truck, zero safety incidents and 97% attendance.
Warehouse picker with 3 years in e-commerce fulfillment, 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 cycle counting; order picker forklift certified. Available for nights and mandatory overtime.
Order picker with 5 years operating stand-up order picker forklifts to 30 feet in a 500,000 sq ft parts warehouse, pulling about 900 lines a shift at 99.9% accuracy. Zero equipment damage in 5 years; trains new hires on high-level picking and harness use.
Picker packer with 2 years in a 12-person apparel warehouse, picking and packing 250 to 300 orders a day with a 0.2% return-for-error rate. Runs the shipping station (UPS WorldShip, USPS labels), handles returns processing, and has missed 2 shifts in 2 years.
Objective: full-time night-shift order picker position. Reliable worker with 2 years as an overnight retail stocker unloading trailers and stocking 900 cases a shift, comfortable lifting 50 pounds and standing 10 hours, with 96% attendance. Willing to complete forklift training and work weekends.
Order picker resume with no experience
Warehouses hire people with no picking experience every week, especially before peak season. What they cannot teach quickly is showing up, working at pace for ten hours and following safety rules. Your resume needs to prove those three things with whatever jobs you have had.
- Pull physical, fast-paced work out of any job: retail stocking, grocery bagging, fast food during rush, moving, landscaping, farm work, construction cleanup. Give a volume: cases stocked, trailers unloaded, orders per hour.
- State attendance and reliability with a number wherever you can: "missed 1 shift in 14 months", "opened the store on time for 2 years".
- List physical facts plainly: can lift 50 pounds repeatedly, can stand and walk a full 10-hour shift, comfortable in a freezer, own reliable transportation for a 5 a.m. start.
- Any equipment or safety exposure counts: manual pallet jack, hand truck, box cutter safety, a forklift class at a community college, OSHA 10 (about $25 online).
- 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 objective about "growing with the company"; use the objective example above instead. One page, no photo.
Format, length and keywords for an order picker resume
- One page, always. Supervisors and staffing agencies read the top third; put your rate, equipment and attendance there.
- Order: header with availability, summary, experience, skills, certifications, education. Education is one line; a high school diploma or GED is what postings ask for.
- Plain single-column layout, no photo, no graphics. Many warehouse applications go through staffing agencies (Adecco, Randstad, Aerotek) or Indeed, where the text is parsed and searched.
- Use the posting's words once each where true: "order picker", "order selector", "warehouse associate", "RF scanner", "voice pick", "electric pallet jack", "forklift certified", "cycle counting", "pick rate", "WMS", "freezer", "night shift".
- Titles differ by company: order picker, order selector, order filler, warehouse picker, picker packer, fulfillment associate. Use your real title in the job entry and the posting's title in your summary line.
- In the UK and Australia the same job is usually called warehouse operative or order picker/packer and the document is a CV; the advice here applies without the photo and date of birth.
Check the finished resume against the posting with the cvplex ATS checker. It shows which equipment, system and duty words from the posting are missing and which bullets still have no number.
Frequently asked questions
What should I put on an order picker resume?
Your pick rate and accuracy, the equipment you are trained on (electric pallet jack, order picker forklift, reach truck, RF scanner, voice pick), the warehouse type and size, your attendance and safety record, your shift availability and physical capacity (lifting, freezer work), and any certificates such as employer forklift training or OSHA 10. One page.
How do I describe order picker job duties on a resume?
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 1,800 pounds by voice pick", "zero equipment damage in 18 months on an order picker forklift". Add the warehouse size and the equipment so the supervisor can picture the job.
What skills should an order picker put on a resume?
Equipment (electric pallet jack, order picker or cherry picker forklift, reach truck), picking methods (RF scanner, voice pick, pick-to-light), warehouse systems (Manhattan, SAP EWM), cycle counting and replenishment, pallet building and wrapping, lifting 50 pounds and working 10- to 12-hour shifts, freezer work, and attendance and safety facts in numbers.
What is a good order picker resume summary?
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, certified on electric pallet jack, order picker and reach truck, zero safety incidents and 97% attendance."
How do I write an order picker resume with no experience?
Use physical, fast-paced jobs (retail stocking, fast food, moving, landscaping) with volumes, state attendance with a number, list what you can lift and how long you can stand, add any pallet jack or safety training, and say your shift availability. Open with a short objective naming the shift you want and that you are willing to complete forklift training.
Should I list forklift or cherry picker certification on my resume?
Yes, and name each truck type. There is no national license; OSHA requires the employer to train and evaluate you on each type every 3 years. Write "Powered Industrial Truck Operator, employer training and evaluation: electric pallet jack, order picker, reach truck, 2024". Third-party courses count as training, but the new employer will still evaluate you.
How long should an order picker resume be?
One page. Put your rate, accuracy, equipment and attendance in the top third, since that is all most supervisors read before deciding to call.
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