Petrol Station Attendant CV Examples & Writing Guide
A petrol station attendant CV is judged on three things: whether you show up for the shifts nobody wants, whether your till balances, and whether you follow the forecourt safety and age-restricted sales rules. Show shift patterns, transaction and till numbers, and any safety or Challenge 25 training. Below is a full sample plus a no-experience version.
Petrol station attendant CV example
The UK title is petrol station attendant, forecourt assistant or customer service assistant; in the US the same job is a gas station attendant. This sample uses UK CV conventions: one page, no photo, no date of birth. Names and employers are invented. Five years of experience, including night shifts and shift leader duties.
Marcus Ellery
Petrol Station Attendant / Shift Leader
Doncaster · 07700 900163 · marcus.ellery@email.com · Available nights, weekends and bank holidays
Summary
Petrol station attendant with 5 years on 24-hour forecourts, currently night shift leader at an HGV-friendly site selling about 34,000 litres of fuel a day. Runs a two-till shop handling 180–240 transactions a shift with a till variance under £2 on 96% of shifts. Trained in fuel spill response and Challenge 25 age checks on alcohol, tobacco and lottery. Never missed a scheduled night shift in two years.
Experience
Petrol Station Attendant, Night Shift Leader · 24-hour fuel and convenience site on a trunk road
Mar 2023–Present
- Run the 10pm to 6am shift alone or with one colleague, handling 180–240 transactions and £2,000–£3,000 in shop takings per shift.
- Balanced the till to within £2 on 96% of shifts over two years, with safe drops every £200 in cash per company policy.
- Check the eight-pump forecourt hourly, log tank gauge and pump meter readings, and reconcile them against daily fuel sales of 30,000–34,000 litres.
- Meet the tanker deliveries that arrive on the night shift (two or three a week), coning off the delivery area, checking the delivery note and confirming tank dips before and after.
- Refuse an average of 12–15 age-restricted sales a month on alcohol, tobacco and vapes under Challenge 25, with no failed test purchases since 2023.
- Cleaned and restocked the coffee station, chillers and hot food counter for the 5am commuter rush, cutting morning restock complaints from the day shift to almost none.
Petrol Station Cashier · Neighbourhood petrol station with convenience shop
Jun 2021–Feb 2023
- Served 150–200 customers a shift on fuel, snacks, National Lottery, tobacco and bill payments at a single till.
- Sold and reconciled National Lottery scratchcards and draw tickets, balancing the lottery daily with no unresolved discrepancies in 20 months.
- Stocked the chillers and rotated dated stock, which cut monthly out-of-date write-offs from about £150 to £50.
- Cleaned pumps, emptied bins, changed till rolls and reported two faulty pump nozzles that were repaired the same day.
- Covered 14 unplanned shifts for colleagues in two years and was trusted with opening keys after eight months.
Stock Assistant (part-time) · Independent grocery shop
Aug 2020–May 2021
- Unloaded and shelved 3–5 pallets per delivery, twice a week, working to a 90-minute window before opening.
- Faced and rotated 12 aisles each evening and flagged short-dated stock for reduction.
- Covered the till during lunchtime peaks, handling around 60 transactions a shift.
Education
A-levels
Sixth form college, Doncaster, 2020
Certifications
- Challenge 25 and age-restricted sales training (employer), 2023
- Level 2 Food Hygiene and Safety certificate, 2024
- Employer forecourt safety, fuel spill response and fire extinguisher training, 2023
Skills
What station managers actually hire on
This is a job with high turnover and a lot of trust attached to it. The manager is not looking for polish. They are looking for four things.
- Availability. Nights, weekends, bank holidays, split shifts, back-to-back cover. If you can work nights, say so at the very top. It moves you above people with more experience who can only do weekday mornings.
- Cash trust. Till accuracy, safe drops, lottery balancing, no unexplained shortages. One clean number here settles the biggest worry the manager has.
- Attendance. Shifts covered for colleagues, months without a missed shift, being handed opening or closing keys. Say it plainly, because attendance is the number one reason people are let go from these roles.
- Rule-following where it counts. Challenge 25 checks on alcohol, tobacco, vapes and lottery, no smoking or phone use on the forecourt, spill and fire procedure, refusing to fill an unsuitable container. A failed test purchase costs a station real money, so a candidate who mentions ID refusals reads as safe.
“Half the CVs I get say hardworking and reliable. The one that gets called says which shifts they can work, that their till balances, and that they have passed compliance checks on ID. I can teach the pumps in an afternoon. I cannot teach someone to turn up at ten at night.”
Duties to put on the CV (and how to word them)
People search for the duties of a petrol station attendant because they want to know what belongs on the page. Here is the real list. Pick the ones you actually did and attach a number to each.
- Fuel: authorising pumps from the till, prepay and pay-at-pump queries, diesel and AdBlue, bottled gas exchange, helping disabled drivers who call for assistance at the pump
- Till work: fuel, snacks, tobacco, alcohol, National Lottery, bill payments, gift cards, mobile top-ups
- Cash control: opening float count, safe drops, shift balancing, banking preparation, card terminal end-of-day
- Forecourt care: pump and nozzle cleaning, squeegee buckets, air and vacuum machines, bins, gritting in winter, sweeping and pressure washing
- Fuel operations: hourly walk-arounds, tank dips or gauge readings, meeting tanker deliveries, checking the delivery note, watching the drop, logging water-in-tank checks
- Shop side: chiller stocking, date rotation, coffee station, hot food counter, toilets, price board changes (pence per litre)
- Safety and compliance: spill kit use, fire extinguisher location, the emergency fuel shut-off, no-smoking enforcement, refusing unsuitable containers, Challenge 25 checks on age-restricted products, incident reporting
- Security: drive-off reporting, CCTV awareness, robbery procedure, lone-worker check-ins on nights
Personal statement and career objective examples
Two or three sentences at the top. Shifts you can work, how busy a site you have handled, and one accuracy or attendance fact.
Petrol station attendant with 5 years on 24-hour forecourts, currently night shift leader at a site selling about 34,000 litres of fuel a day. Handles 180–240 transactions a shift with a till variance under £2 on 96% of shifts. Trained in spill response and Challenge 25 age checks. Available nights, weekends and bank holidays.
Convenience store cashier with 2 years in a busy corner shop, handling 150 transactions a shift, lottery reconciliation and daily banking. Comfortable working alone in the evenings and trained in Challenge 25 age checks. Looking for a forecourt role with night shifts.
Reliable and punctual sixth-form leaver seeking a first petrol station attendant role. Two summers of outdoor work in all weather, comfortable on my feet for eight hours, and used to counting and handing over money accurately from a school fundraising stall. Available for nights, weekends and bank holidays, with my own transport.
Former forecourt assistant with 3 years of fuel and convenience experience, returning to work after two years of caring for family. Held opening and closing keys, balanced the safe and met weekly tanker deliveries. Available for full-time hours including nights.
Fuel and convenience attendant with 6 years on site, 3 as a night shift leader running a two-person team. Trains new starters on the EPOS, fuel reconciliation and Challenge 25 checks, and has closed three years of internal cash audits with no unresolved shortages. Looking for a route into assistant manager.
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Bullet points that beat "provided excellent customer service"
| Weak | Strong |
|---|---|
| Provided excellent customer service to customers. | Served 150–200 customers a shift on fuel, snacks, lottery and tobacco at a single till, keeping the queue under three people at the 5pm peak. |
| Handled cash and operated the till. | Balanced a till taking £2,000–£3,000 a shift to within £2 on 96% of shifts, with safe drops every £200 per company policy. |
| Looked after the pumps. | Checked the eight-pump forecourt hourly, logged tank readings and reconciled them against daily sales of 30,000–34,000 litres. |
| Received fuel deliveries. | Met two or three tanker deliveries a week: coned off the delivery area, checked the delivery note against the order and confirmed dips before and after the drop. |
| Checked IDs when required. | Refuse 12–15 age-restricted sales a month under Challenge 25, with no failed test purchases since 2023. |
| Kept the shop clean. | Cleaned pumps, bins and toilets every shift and restocked the chillers and coffee station before the 5am commuter rush. |
| Was reliable and punctual. | Covered 14 unplanned shifts for colleagues in two years and never missed a scheduled night shift in the last two years. |
| Sold lottery tickets. | Reconciled National Lottery scratchcards and draw tickets daily with no unresolved discrepancies across 20 months. |
| Followed safety procedures. | Used the spill kit on two small nozzle spills, contained both within five minutes and filed incident reports the same shift. |
| Reduced waste in the shop. | Cut monthly out-of-date write-offs from about £150 to £50 by rotating the chillers daily and pulling short-dated stock for reduction. |
Skills for a petrol station attendant CV
- Fuel side: pump authorisation, prepay and pay-at-pump, diesel and AdBlue, bottled gas exchange, tank dips and gauge readings, delivery checks, spill kit and fire extinguisher use, emergency shut-off
- Shop side: EPOS and card terminals, National Lottery, bill payments, gift cards, chiller stocking, date rotation, coffee and hot food counter, price board changes
- Money: float counting, safe drops, shift balancing, banking preparation, spotting counterfeit notes, refusing suspicious or fraudulent payments
- Rules: Challenge 25 checks on alcohol, tobacco, vapes and lottery, no-smoking enforcement on the forecourt, refusing to fill unsuitable containers, incident reporting, lone-worker procedure
- The rest: standing for a full shift, working outdoors in rain, wind and snow, another language your customers speak, staying calm with a difficult customer at 2am
Put availability and any training certificate in their own short block. On a one-page CV for this job, "Available: nights, weekends, bank holidays" plus "Challenge 25 training, 2023" does more work than five soft-skill words.
Petrol station attendant CV with no experience
This is one of the most common searches for this job, and the honest answer is that stations hire people with no experience every week. What they need to see is that you are safe with money, available for real shifts, and will actually turn up.
- 1Put availability first, in the personal statement and in the contact line. Nights and weekends are what get you hired.
- 2Use a two-line career objective instead of a personal statement: the role you want and the two or three things you bring.
- 3Turn anything with money in it into a bullet: a school fundraiser, a market stall, a family shop, collecting subs for a club, selling online. Say how much and how it balanced.
- 4Turn anything physical or outdoor into a bullet: gardening, farm work, warehouse shifts, sports training. Standing for eight hours in the cold is a real requirement.
- 5Add volunteer, school or church work with hours and reliability: "Volunteered 6 hours every Saturday for 14 months at the food bank, opening up and counting the cash tin."
- 6List any certificate you can get cheaply and fast: a Level 2 Food Hygiene certificate, an age-restricted sales course, Emergency First Aid at Work. Some can be done online for under £20 and take a couple of hours.
- 7Add references. For a first job, two people who can vouch for your reliability (a teacher, coach, faith leader, previous supervisor) are worth more than another skills line.
- 8One page, no photo, plain layout. Give a phone number you actually answer.
Ran the refreshment stall at 11 home matches, handling roughly £300 in cash per match and turning in a count that matched the takings every time.
Worked 30 hours a week for two summers in a landscaping team, starting at 6am in all weather with no missed days in either season.
Helped in a family-run corner shop most weekends for three years: served customers, stocked shelves, counted the till at close and locked up with my father.
Format, length and how to hand it in
- One page, always. This is not a job where a second page helps.
- Order: name and contact with availability, short personal statement or career objective, experience, skills, certificates, education, references if you have space.
- UK conventions: no photo, no date of birth, no marital status, town and postcode area instead of a full address. If your template has these fields, take them out.
- Many stations still take paper. Print two clean copies and hand them in mid-morning or mid-afternoon, not during the rush. Ask for the manager by name if you know it.
- For chain applications, you will fill in an online form and often upload the file. Keep it a simple PDF, single column, no tables or graphics, so the form parser can read it.
- Mirror the advert's words: petrol station attendant, forecourt assistant, customer service assistant, forecourt cashier, night shift assistant. Use the exact title in your personal statement.
- Say if you have your own reliable transport for night shifts. Managers ask, because buses and trains often do not run when the shift ends.
Frequently asked questions
How do I write a petrol station attendant CV with no experience?
Lead with availability for nights, weekends and bank holidays, then use a two-line career objective. Fill the page with anything involving money, standing work or reliability: a school stall, family shop, volunteering, landscaping or warehouse shifts. Add a cheap certificate like a Level 2 Food Hygiene certificate or an age-restricted sales course, list two references, and keep it to one page.
What skills do I put on a petrol station attendant CV?
Pump authorisation and fuel payments, EPOS and card terminals, cash handling with safe drops and shift balancing, National Lottery sales, chiller stocking and date rotation, spill kit and fire extinguisher use, and Challenge 25 checks on alcohol, tobacco and vapes. Add physical realities too: full shifts on your feet, outdoor work in all weather, and lone night shifts.
What are the duties of a petrol station attendant?
Authorising pumps and taking fuel payments, running the till for fuel, snacks, tobacco, alcohol and the National Lottery, counting and dropping cash, cleaning the forecourt and toilets, stocking the chillers and coffee station, meeting tanker deliveries and logging tank readings, and following safety rules on smoking, spills and age-restricted sales. Pick the ones you did and put a number on each.
Do I need any certificates to work at a petrol station?
Usually no formal qualification. Staff selling alcohol do not need their own personal licence (the designated premises supervisor holds one), but you will be trained on Challenge 25, and a Level 2 Food Hygiene certificate helps if the site has a hot food or coffee counter. Most fuel, spill and safety training is given by the employer after you start.
How long should this CV be?
One page. If you have ten years across four stations, compress the older jobs to one line each and keep the numbers on the two most recent. A manager reading twenty applications for a night shift is not going to turn the page.
Should I say I can work nights on my CV?
Yes, and put it near your name rather than at the bottom. Night and weekend cover is the hardest thing for a station to fill, so stating it clearly moves you up the pile. Mention your own transport too, since buses often do not run at shift-change time.
How do I prove I can be trusted with cash?
Use numbers, not adjectives. How much passed through your till per shift, how often it balanced, whether you did safe drops, whether you handled the lottery or the banking, and whether you were trusted with keys. "Balanced a £2,000 to £3,000 till to within £2 on 96% of shifts" is far stronger than "honest and trustworthy".
Is a petrol station attendant the same as a forecourt cashier?
The adverts overlap, but attendant or forecourt assistant usually implies forecourt work (pumps, deliveries, cleaning, spills) while cashier leans towards the shop side (till, stocking, lottery, food counter). Read the advert and use its exact title. On almost every UK site, one person does both across a shift.
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