About This Career

Parks vehicles or issues tickets for customers in a parking lot or garage. May park or tend vehicles in environments such as a car dealership or rental car facility. May collect fee.

This career is part of the Transportation, Distribution and Logistics cluster Sales and Service pathway.

A person in this career:

• Takes numbered tags from customers, locates vehicles, and delivers vehicles, or provides customers with instructions for locating vehicles.
• Inspects vehicles to detect any damage.
• Greets customers and opens their car doors.
• Issues ticket stubs or places numbered tags on windshields, logs tags or attaches tag to customers' keys, and gives customers matching tags for locating parked vehicles.
• Performs cash handling tasks, such as making change, balancing and recording cash drawer, or distributing tips.
• Explains and calculates parking charges, collects fees from customers, and responds to customer complaints.
• Parks and retrieves automobiles for customers in parking lots, storage garages, or new car lots.
• Provides customer assistance and information, such as giving directions or handling wheelchairs.
• Keeps parking areas clean and orderly to ensure that space usage is maximized.
• Calls emergency responders or the proper authorities and provides motorist assistance, such as giving directions or helping jump start a stalled vehicle.

Working Conditions and Physical Demands

People who do this job report that:

• You would often handle loads up to 10 lbs., sometimes up to 20 lbs. You might do a lot of walking or standing, or you might sit but use your arms and legs to control machines, equipment or tools.
• Work in this occupation involves using your hands to hold, control, and feel objects more than one-third of the time
• Work in this occupation requires being outside most of the time
• Work in this occupation involves making repetitive motions more than one-third of the time
• Work in this occupation involves walking or running more than one-third of the time

Working in this career involves (physical activities):

• Judging how far away an object is, or which of several objects is closer or farther away
• Seeing clearly at a distance
• Seeing clearly up close
• Speaking clearly enough to be able to be understood by others
• Identifying and understanding the speech of another person

Work Hours and Travel

• Rotating shift work
• Weekend work