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.
- Booking Clerk
- Car Checker
- Container Coordinator
- Distributing Clerk
- Grain Elevator Clerk
- Gun-Repair Clerk
- Incoming-Freight Clerk
- Industrial-Order Clerk
- Paper-Control Clerk
- Photofinishing Laboratory Worker
- Reconsignment Clerk
- Route-Delivery Clerk
- Routing Clerk
- Ship Runner
- Shipping and Receiving Clerk
- Shipping Checker
- Shipping-Order Clerk
- Traffic Clerk
- Truckload Checker
- Vault Worker
| 43-5011.00 |
Cargo and Freight Agents |
| 43-5021.00 |
Couriers and Messengers |
| 43-5031.00 |
Police, Fire, and Ambulance Dispatchers |
| 43-5032.00 |
Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance |
| 43-5041.00 |
Meter Readers, Utilities |
| 43-5051.00 |
Postal Service Clerks |
| 43-5052.00 |
Postal Service Mail Carriers |
| 43-5053.00 |
Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators |
| 43-5061.00 |
Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks |
| 43-5071.00 |
Shipping, Receiving, and Traffic Clerks |
| 43-5081.00 |
Stock Clerks and Order Fillers |
| 43-5081.01 |
Stock Clerks, Sales Floor |
| 43-5081.02 |
Marking Clerks |
| 43-5081.03 |
Stock Clerks- Stockroom, Warehouse, or Storage Yard |
| 43-5081.04 |
Order Fillers, Wholesale and Retail Sales |
| Procurement Clerks |
43-3061.00 |
| Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks |
43-5061.00 |
| Stock Clerks- Stockroom, Warehouse, or Storage Yard |
43-5081.03 |
| Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping |
43-5111.00 |
| Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service |
43-9051.00 |
| Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers |
49-9091.00 |
| Freight and Cargo Inspectors |
53-6051.08 |
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- Compute amounts, such as space available, and shipping, storage, and demurrage charges, using calculator or price list.
- Confer and correspond with establishment representatives to rectify problems, such as damages, shortages, and nonconformance to specifications.
- Contact carrier representative to make arrangements and to issue instructions for shipping and delivery of materials.
- Deliver or route materials to departments, using work devices, such as handtruck, conveyor, or sorting bins.
- Determine shipping method for materials, using knowledge of shipping procedures, routes, and rates.
- Examine contents and compare with records, such as manifests, invoices, or orders, to verify accuracy of incoming or outgoing shipment.
- Pack, seal, label, and affix postage to prepare materials for shipping, using work devices such as hand tools, power tools, and postage meter.
- Prepare documents, such as work orders, bills of lading, and shipping orders to route materials.
- Record shipment data, such as weight, charges, space availability, and damages and discrepancies, for reporting, accounting, and recordkeeping purposes.
- Requisition and store shipping materials and supplies to maintain inventory of stock.
- compare shipment contents to records
- confer with engineering, technical or manufacturing personnel
- convey cargo by hand truck
- examine products or work to verify conformance to specifications
- fill out business or government forms
- load, unload, or stack containers, materials, or products
- maintain inventory of office forms
- maintain records, reports, or files
- manage inventories or supplies
- measure, weigh, or count products or materials
- monitor materials or supplies
- obtain information from individuals
- operate business machines
- package goods for shipment or storage
- requisition stock, materials, supplies or equipment
- take messages
- use computers to enter, access or retrieve data
- use oral or written communication techniques
- wrap products
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