Furniture Removalist
What the work is
Drives a removal van or truck to move household and office furniture and equipment between locations.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Plans and organises the loading, transportation and unloading of furniture and equipment
- Uses appropriate lifting techniques for heavy items
- Packs and secures furniture and equipment for safe transportation
- Drives a removal vehicle to transport furniture and equipment
- Liaises with clients to determine preferences for placing furniture and equipment
- Completes documentation, including inventories of furniture and equipment moved
- Inspects and maintains a removal vehicle
- May assist with packing, assembling and disassembling furniture and equipment
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in a small family removal business moving households around a fictional coastal town. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- Every box lands in the right room and the family sits down to a meal in their new home
- You and the crew work like a well-practised team, and the truck is packed tight and tidy
- A customer who dreaded moving day says it was the calmest part of the whole month
Hard days
- A narrow staircase, a big wardrobe and a customer who needs it done by five
- Aching shoulders and a long day in the heat with a lot still on the truck
- A customer who keeps adding things to the job after the quote was agreed
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 712131, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.