Warehouse Worker CV: Forklift Licence, Safety Record and Examples With No Experience

Warehouse recruiters hire in volume and read fast. They are looking for four things in the first ten seconds: can you legally operate the equipment we use, can you work the shifts we need, do you hit pick rates, and have you kept yourself and others safe. Put those four at the top of the page and the rest of your CV only has to confirm them.

Structure of a warehouse CV

1. Header: name, city, phone, email, right to work, and shift availability (days, nights, weekends, rotating).
2. Profile: 2–3 lines on experience, licences and your best metrics.
3. Licences and certificates: forklift (counterbalance, reach, VNA, PPT), manual handling, first aid, ADR or IATA if relevant, driving licence.
4. Experience: most recent first, with warehouse type, scanner or WMS used, pick rates, accuracy and safety record.
5. Skills: equipment, systems, physical requirements you meet.
6. Education: brief; secondary school and any logistics qualification (NVQ, Fachkraft für Lagerlogistik, CAP).

Sample profile

Warehouse operative with 4 years in e-commerce fulfilment and food distribution, holding counterbalance and reach truck licences (RTITB, renewed 2026). Consistently picks 160+ lines an hour at 99.8 % accuracy and has a zero-incident safety record across 6,000 hours. Available for rotating shifts including nights and weekends.

Achievements with numbers

• Averaged 165 picks per hour against a site target of 120, ranking in the top 10 % of 200 operatives for 18 months.
• Maintained 99.8 % pick accuracy over 400,000 lines with zero customer-reported mispicks in the last year.
• Zero reportable incidents in 6,000 operating hours on counterbalance and reach trucks.
• Trained 12 seasonal starters on scanner use and safety walkways, reducing their first-week error rate by half.
• Proposed a slotting change for fast-moving SKUs that cut walking distance and raised zone throughput by 15 %.

Skills and equipment to list

• Equipment: counterbalance forklift, reach truck, VNA, pallet truck (PPT/LLOP), order picker, hand scanner, RF gun, pallet wrapper.
• Processes: goods-in, put-away, picking (RF, voice, pick-to-light), packing, dispatch, returns, cycle counting, stock takes, load and unload.
• Systems: WMS (SAP EWM, Manhattan, Blue Yonder, Körber, Amazon FC systems), handheld devices, basic Excel.
• Safety and compliance: manual handling, PPE, LOLER checks, food hygiene (Level 2), HACCP, hazardous goods awareness, 5S.

No warehouse experience yet?

Put availability and any licence first, then show you can do physical, repetitive, accurate work: retail stockroom, farm or construction labouring, kitchen work, delivery driving, military service or sports all count. Add one line that proves reliability (attendance record, length of a previous job) and one that proves accuracy (cash handling, inventory counts). Many sites train forklift internally; say you are willing to be trained and that you hold a driving licence if you do.

ATS keywords

Warehouse operative, warehouse associate, forklift licence, counterbalance, reach truck, order picking, pick rate, packing, goods-in, dispatch, inventory, stock control, WMS, RF scanner, manual handling, health and safety, shift work, FMCG, e-commerce fulfilment. Use the equipment and licence names exactly as the advert writes them.

Country notes

UK: state the licence body (RTITB, ITSSAR) and renewal date; many agencies ask for it. Germany: Staplerschein and the Fachkraft für Lagerlogistik or Fachlagerist qualification if you have it. Gulf: work visa status and whether you have a GCC forklift licence; large logistics parks in Dubai and Riyadh ask for it explicitly. USA and Canada: OSHA forklift certification and whether you can lift 50 lb; drug-screen willingness is often asked. Australia: HRW licence class (LF, LO).

A warehouse CV is a scoreboard: licences, rate, accuracy, incidents. Put the numbers on the first page and let them do the talking.

Build it in minutes

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