Stock Clerks- Stockroom, Warehouse, or Storage Yard - 43-5081.03

O*NET-SOC Description

Receive, store, and issue materials, equipment, and other items from stockroom, warehouse, or storage yard. Keep records and compile stock reports.

DOT Titles Included in this O*NET-SOC Code

  • Central-Supply Worker
  • Checker, Bakery Products
  • Custodian, Athletic Equipment
  • Cut-File Clerk
  • Field Recorder
  • Fuel-Oil Clerk
  • Inventory Clerk
  • Kitchen Clerk
  • Linen-Room Attendant
  • Magazine Keeper
  • Material Clerk
  • Meat Clerk
  • Merchandise Distributor
  • Odd-Piece Checker
  • Outsole Scheduler
  • Parts Clerk
  • Parts Lister
  • Parts-Order-and-Stock Clerk
  • Prescription Clerk, Lens-and-Frames
  • Property Custodian
  • Protective-Clothing Issuer
  • Quality-Control Clerk
  • Space-and-Storage Clerk
  • Stock Clerk
  • Stock Control Clerk
  • Storekeeper
  • Supply Clerk
  • Tool-Crib Attendant
  • Tooth Clerk
  • Transformer-Stock Clerk

Sample of Occupations in this SOC Family

Related Occupations

Tasks

  • Advise retail customers or internal users on the appropriateness of parts, supplies, or materials requested.
  • Clean and maintain supplies, tools, equipment, and storage areas in order to ensure compliance with safety regulations.
  • Compile, review, and maintain data from contracts, purchase orders, requisitions, and other documents in order to assess supply needs.
  • Confer with engineering and purchasing personnel and vendors regarding stock procurement and availability.
  • Determine proper storage methods, identification, and stock location based on turnover, environmental factors, and physical capabilities of facilities.
  • Determine sequence and release of back orders according to stock availability.
  • Dispose of damaged or defective items, or return them to vendors.
  • Drive trucks in order to pick up incoming stock or to deliver parts to designated locations.
  • Examine and inspect stock items for wear or defects, reporting any damage to supervisors.
  • Issue or distribute materials, products, parts, and supplies to customers or coworkers, based on information from incoming requisitions.
  • Keep records on the use and/or damage of stock or stock handling equipment.
  • Mark stock items using identification tags, stamps, electric marking tools, or other labeling equipment.
  • Pack and unpack items to be stocked on shelves in stockrooms, warehouses, or storage yards.
  • Prepare and maintain records and reports of inventories, price lists, shortages, shipments, expenditures, and goods used or issued.
  • Prepare products, supplies, equipment, or other items for use by adjusting, repairing or assembling them as necessary.
  • Provide assistance or direction to other stockroom, warehouse, or storage yard workers.
  • Purchase new or additional stock, or prepare documents that provide for such purchases.
  • Receive and count stock items, and record data manually or using computer.
  • Recommend disposal of excess, defective, or obsolete stock.
  • Sell materials, equipment, and other items from stock in retail settings.
  • Store items in an orderly and accessible manner in warehouses, tool rooms, supply rooms, or other areas.
  • Verify inventory computations by comparing them to physical counts of stock, and investigate discrepancies or adjust errors.

Detailed Work Activities

  • advise clients or customers
  • authorize credit charges
  • calculate monetary exchange
  • carry messages or packages
  • clean rooms or work areas
  • compare shipment contents to records
  • confer with engineering, technical or manufacturing personnel
  • confer with vendors
  • convey cargo by hand truck
  • direct and coordinate activities of workers or staff
  • drive automobile, van, or light truck
  • examine products or work to verify conformance to specifications
  • fabricate, assemble, or disassemble manufactured products by hand
  • 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
  • operate business machines
  • order or purchase supplies, materials, or equipment
  • package goods for shipment or storage
  • process orders for merchandise
  • process returned merchandise
  • provide customer service
  • requisition stock, materials, supplies or equipment
  • retrieve or place goods from/into storage
  • sell merchandise
  • stock or organize goods
  • take inventory to identify items to be reordered
  • use cash registers
  • use computers to enter, access or retrieve data
  • use inventory control procedures
  • use oral or written communication techniques
  • wrap products