What should you include in a warehouse resume?

Warehouse work in Australia centres on picking and packing orders, receiving and checking stock in, dispatching it back out, and keeping inventory counts accurate in between, usually against a shift target or a pick rate. A new or junior worker is typically rostered onto one station or process (picking, packing, or receiving) and builds across the warehouse from there, while a more experienced worker often rotates across several processes or handles exceptions, like damaged stock or order discrepancies, without needing to ask. A supervisor sits a level above that: rostering a shift, allocating work across a team, resolving the exceptions a picker or packer escalates up, and reporting on the numbers (pick accuracy, dispatch times, shrinkage) the warehouse is actually measured on.

The Fair Work Storage Services and Wholesale Award sets a minimum of $27.08 an hour for a Grade 1 adult warehouse worker; that is the award floor, not typical pay, and most employers pay above it, with higher grades for more senior storage and warehouse classifications. Nationally, storepersons earn a full-time median of ~$69,000 a year before tax, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, well below the all-occupations median, which is the reality of entry-level warehouse pay even once you are past the award floor. A supervisor sits in a different pay bracket again: no official median is published for the role specifically yet, but market job-ad and salary data put typical base pay for an experienced warehouse supervisor at roughly $75,000–$90,000 a year. Where you sit within any of these depends heavily on shift pattern, site, and industry (cold storage and 3PL sites commonly pay above retail distribution), and weekend or night penalty rates can add a meaningful amount on top of base pay.

• State your forklift licence plainly, if you hold one. The LF high risk work licence is a nationally recognised LF licence, held and current, so say which class you hold and that it is current, the same way a trade resume states a licence number held and current rather than spelling out the number itself. If you also hold the order-picker (LO) or reach stacker (1RS) class, name that one separately, since they are not the same ticket as LF and a hiring manager checking for a specific class will notice if you conflate them.
• Name the systems you have actually used. A warehouse management system (WMS) such as SAP EWM or a site-specific equivalent, handheld scanners, and RF (radio frequency) picking are common across Australian warehouses, and naming the specific one you used reads as real experience in a way "computer literate" does not.
• Keep the licence number off the resume. State the licence class and that it is current; the licence number itself is personal information the resume does not need to carry.

• State the size of the team you actually ran. "Supervised a team of 12 across two shifts" tells a reader something concrete; "led a team" on its own does not, and a hiring manager hiring a supervisor is specifically checking whether you have managed people at the scale their site needs.
• Lead with a measurable result, not a duties list. A picking-accuracy improvement, a reduction in dispatch times, or a drop in shrinkage or safety incidents under your watch is checkable in a way "responsible for warehouse operations" is not. Quantify it if you genuinely can, and do not estimate a figure you cannot stand behind if asked about it.
• Name what you were accountable for, not just who reported to you. Rostering, KPI reporting, stocktake sign-off, or WHS incident management are the specifics that separate a supervisor resume from a senior picker's, so say which of these you actually owned.

None of the above changes the shape of the document. An Australian warehouse resume still runs two to three pages, in reverse chronological order, with referees listed or marked as available on request, no photo, and Australian spelling throughout. See the Australian resume format for the full detail.