Profession vending machine operator

Vending machine operators remove cash, conduct visual inspections of the machine, provide basic maintenance and refill goods sold for vending and other coin-operated machines.

Personality Type

• Realistic / Conventional

Knowledge

• Geographical routes

  The interpretation of geographical information such as locations and distances between them.

• Food hygiene rules

  The set of national and international regulations for hygiene of foodstuffs and food safety, e.g. regulation (EC) 852/2004.

• Company policies

  The set of rules that govern the activity of a company.

Skills

• Keep task records

  Organise and classify records of prepared reports and correspondence related to the performed work and progress records of tasks.

• Maintain operations of vending machines

  Clean and maintain vending machines in order to keep them in a proper state. Perform minor adjustments and repairs if needed; repair jams and similar technical malfunctions. Call out service engineers in case of complicated malfunctions. Refill vending machines with goods.

• Adjust temperature gauges

  Operate temperature gauges to maintain food and drink items at appropriate temperatures.

• Carry out stock rotation

  Execute repositioning of packaged and perishable products with an earlier sell-by date to the front of a shelf.

• Ensure public safety and security

  Implement the relevant procedures, strategies and use the proper equipment to promote local or national security activities for the protection of data, people, institutions, and property.

• Change shelf labels

  Change labels on shelves, according to the location of products displayed on vending machines.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB