Career Details :: Shipping, Receiving, and Traffic Clerks
Description
Verify and keep records on incoming and outgoing shipments. Prepare items for shipment. Duties include assembling, addressing, stamping, and shipping merchandise or material; receiving, unpacking, verifying, and recording incoming merchandise or material; and arranging for the transportation of products.
Experience
No previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, a person can become a general office clerk even if he/she has never worked in an office before.
Education
These occupations may require a high school diploma or GED certificate. Some may require a formal training course to obtain a license.
Training
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few days to a few months of training. Usually, an experienced worker could show you how to do the job.
Tasks
- Examines contents and compares with records, such as manifests, invoices, or orders, to verify accuracy of incoming or outgoing shipment.
- Packs, seals, labels, and affixes postage to prepare materials for shipping, using work devices such as hand tools, power tools, and postage meter.
- Confers and corresponds with establishment representatives to rectify problems, such as damages, shortages, and nonconformance to specifications.
- Contacts carrier representative to make arrangements and to issue instructions for shipping and delivery of materials.
- Requisitions and stores shipping materials and supplies to maintain inventory of stock.
- Computes amounts, such as space available and shipping, storage, and demurrage charges, using calculator or price list.
- Prepares documents, such as work orders, bills of lading, and shipping orders, to route materials.
- Determines shipping method for materials, using knowledge of shipping procedures, routes, and rates.
- Delivers or routes materials to departments, using work devices, such as hand truck, conveyor, or sorting bins.
- Records shipment data, such as weight, charges, space availability, and damages and discrepancies, for reporting, accounting, and record-keeping purposes.
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- Mail Clerks, Except Mail Machine Operators and Postal Service
- Procurement Clerks
- Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
- Stock Clerks, Stockroom, Warehouse, or Storage Yard
- Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping
Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
- Documenting/Recording Information
- Evaluating Information Against Standards
- Communicating With Persons Outside Organization
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Indoors
- Degree of Automation
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
- Consequence of Error
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