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Career Details :: Stock Clerks, Stockroom, Warehouse, or Storage Yard
Description
Receive, store, and issue materials, equipment, and other items from stockroom, warehouse, or storage yard. Keep records and compile stock reports.
Experience
Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience may be helpful in these occupations, but usually is not needed. For example, a drywall installer might benefit from experience installing drywall, but an inexperienced person could still learn to be an installer with little difficulty.
Education
These occupations usually require a high school diploma and may require some vocational training or job-related course work. In some cases, an associate's or bachelor's degree could be needed.
Training
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees.
Tasks
- Receives and fills orders or sells supplies, materials, and products to customers.
- Records nature, quantity, value, or location of material, supplies, or equipment received, shipped, used, or issued to workers.
- Confers with engineering and purchasing personnel and vendors regarding procurement and stock availability.
- Compares office inventory records with sales orders, invoices, or requisitions to verify accuracy and receipt of items.
- Packs, unpacks, and marks stock items, using identification tag, stamp, electric marking tool, or other labeling equipment.
- Adjusts, repairs, assembles, or prepares products, supplies, equipment, or other items, according to specifications or customer requirements.
- Verifies computations against physical count of stock, adjusts for errors, or investigates discrepancies.
- Prepares documents, such as inventory balance, price lists, shortages, expenditures, and periodic reports, using computer, typewriter, or calculator.
- Purchases or prepares documents to purchase new or additional stock and recommends disposal of excess, defective, or obsolete stock.
- Assists or directs to other stockroom, warehouse, or storage yard workers.
- Cleans and maintains supplies, tools, equipment, instruments, and storage areas to ensure compliance to safety regulations.
- Compiles, reviews, and maintains data from contracts, purchase orders, requisitions, and other documents to determine supply needs.
- Receives, counts, and stores stock items and records data, manually or using computer.
- Locates and selects material, supplies, tools, equipment, or other articles from stock or issues stock item to workers.
- Examines and inspects stock items for wear or defects, reports damage to supervisor, and disposes of or returns items to vendor.
- Determines method of storage, identification, and stock location based on turnover, environmental factors, and physical capacity of facility.
- Delivers products, supplies, and equipment to designated area, and determines sequence and release of back orders according to stock availability.
- Drives truck to pick up incoming stock or deliver parts to designated locations.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Monitoring and Controlling Resources
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
- Documenting/Recording Information
- Performing General Physical Activities
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Indoors
- Job-Required Social Interaction
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
- Frustrating Circumstances
Related Majors
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