Vending machine fillers place and restock vending machines. They usually travel between sites where the vending machines are located. Their duties can include:

• placing and setting up vending machines
• filling, cleaning, and servicing vending machines
• merchandising vending machines
• transporting goods used to stock the machines and
• stock record keeping.

Award coverage for vending machine fillers depends on:

• the industry or industries their employer operates in
• there being a classification that matches the employee’s duties and qualifications.

Industry award coverage

Retail Award

The Retail Award covers employees working for employers in the retail industry.

Example

Amrita is a vending machine filler.

She travels between her employer’s warehouse and sites that stock her employer's vending machines. She checks stock levels, refills stock, cleans the machines, undertakes basic repairs, and makes a record of the work she has completed and stock she has refilled.

Amrita is covered by the Retail Award as a level 1 employee.

Example

Dominic is Amrita’s colleague.

He works in a warehouse operating a forklift, and picking the goods Amrita uses to fill the vending machines.

Dominic is covered by the Retail Award as a level 2 employee.

Storage and Wholesale Award

The Storage and Wholesale Award applies if the employer is in the storage services and wholesale industry.

Example

Bree works as a picker and packer in a warehouse.

Occasionally vending machines are delivered to the warehouse for filling by Bree, before being collected by their owners.

Mostly Bree operates a forklift, picks and packs, labels goods and assembles boxes.

Bree is covered by the Storage and Wholesale Award.