- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who sorts used merchandise received from donors and appraises, prices, wraps, packs, and allocates merchandise for resale in retail outlets of nonprofit organization and maintains related records.
* Discards unsalable items or sets them aside for salvage or repair.
* May make minor repairs on damaged merchandise.
* May be designated according to merchandise sorted as Book Sorter; Clothing Sorter; Jewelry Sorter; Wares Sorter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who receives, stores, and issues equipment, material, supplies, merchandise, foodstuffs, or tools, and compiles stock records in stockroom, warehouse, or storage yard. Respnsibilities include:
* Counts, sorts, or weighs incoming articles to verify receipt of items on requisition or invoices.
* Examines stock to verify conformance to specifications.
* Stores articles in bins, on floor, or on shelves, according to identifying information, such as style, size, or type of material.
* Fills orders or issues supplies from stock.
* Prepares periodic, special, or perpetual inventory of stock.
* Requisitions articles to fill incoming orders.
* Compiles reports on use of stock handling equipment, adjustments of inventory counts and stock records, spoilage of or damage to stock, location changes, and refusal of shipments.
* May mark identifying codes, figures, or letters on articles, using labeling equipment.
* May distribute stock among production workers, keeping records of material issued.
* May make adjustments or repairs to articles carried in stock.
* May determine methods of storage, identification, and stock location, considering temperature, humidity, height and weight limits, turnover, floor loading capacities, and required space.
* May cut stock to size to fill order.
* May move or transport material or supplies to other departments, using hand or industrial truck.
* May maintain inventory and other stock records, using computer terminal.
* May be designated according to material, equipment, or product stored as Camera-Storeroom Clerk (motion picture); Oil-House Attendant; Wire Stockkeeper; or work location as Wine-Cellar Stock Clerk; or stage in manufacture of material or goods as Finished-Goods Stock Clerk; or container in which goods are stored as Drum-Stock Clerk.
* May receive and store incoming shipments of yarn, thread, or jute stock and verify color standards of shipment and be known as Color Standards Clerk.
* May be designated. Respnsibilities include:
* Custodian, Blood Bank; Food-Storeroom Clerk; Hogshead-Stock Clerk; Material Stockkeeper, Yard (petrol.
* & gas); Mold Picker (rubber goods); Paint Stocker; Pattern-Room Attendant (foundry); Printing-Plate Clerk; Sack Keeper; Template-Storage Clerk; Refrigerator-Room Clerk.
* May receive, store, and sort unserviceable equipment and supplies for sale, disposal, or reclamation and be known as Salvage Clerk.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who receives, stores, and issues supplies and equipment and compiles records of supply transactions aboard ship. Respnsibilities include:
* Verifies that supplies received are listed on requisitions and invoices.
* Stores supplies and equipment in storerooms.
* Issues supplies.
* Inventories supplies and equipment at end of each voyage.
* Compiles report of expenditures.
* May be designated according to department worked in as Storekeeper, Deck; Storekeeper, Engineering; Storekeeper, Steward.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who receives, stores, and issues supplies and equipment and compiles records of supply transactions aboard ship. Respnsibilities include:
* Verifies that supplies received are listed on requisitions and invoices.
* Stores supplies and equipment in storerooms.
* Issues supplies.
* Inventories supplies and equipment at end of each voyage.
* Compiles report of expenditures.
* May be designated according to department worked in as Storekeeper, Deck; Storekeeper, Engineering; Storekeeper, Steward.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who weighs and records weight of filled containers, cargo of loaded vehicles, or rolls of materials, such as cotton, sugarcane, paper, cloth, plastic, and tobacco, to keep receiving and shipping records. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads scale dial to ascertain weight and records weight on ticket, product, or material; or subtracts tare from gross weight to obtain net weight of product or material; or inserts ticket into automatic scale recorder that prints weight on ticket.
* May convey objects to scale, using handtruck, and lift objects onto scale.
* May record information on weight ticket, such as grade and yardage.
* May be designated according to item weighed as Cloth Weigher (knitting); Garment Weigher (knitting); Roll Weigher; Tobacco Weigher.
* May signal yard engineer to move cars on and off scale and be designated Scaler.
* May weigh only incoming or outgoing materials or products and be designated Receiving Weigher; Shipping Weigher.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who weighs and records weight of filled containers, cargo of loaded vehicles, or rolls of materials, such as cotton, sugarcane, paper, cloth, plastic, and tobacco, to keep receiving and shipping records. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads scale dial to ascertain weight and records weight on ticket, product, or material; or subtracts tare from gross weight to obtain net weight of product or material; or inserts ticket into automatic scale recorder that prints weight on ticket.
* May convey objects to scale, using handtruck, and lift objects onto scale.
* May record information on weight ticket, such as grade and yardage.
* May be designated according to item weighed as Cloth Weigher (knitting); Garment Weigher (knitting); Roll Weigher; Tobacco Weigher.
* May signal yard engineer to move cars on and off scale and be designated Scaler.
* May weigh only incoming or outgoing materials or products and be designated Receiving Weigher; Shipping Weigher.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends pump that pumps incoming milk from tank trucks to storage tank, and computes and records volume of milk received. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs loaded truck on platform scale and records weight on record sheet.
* Dips and pours sample of milk from vent hole of truck into bottle for laboratory analysis.
* Tastes and takes temperature of milk, and records taste data and temperature reading.
* Connects plastic hose between sanitary valves of truck and storage tank, starts pump, and turns valves to transfer milk to tank.
* Stops pump when transfer is completed, reads milk-flow meter, and records volume pumped on record sheet.
* Disconnects plastic hose from truck tank and connects nozzle of tank-cleaning system to vent hole of tank.
* Starts equipment that automatically rinses, washes, and sanitizes interior of tank.
* Removes nozzle and seals vent hole.
* Washes exterior of truck and pumping equipment, using brushes, detergent solution, and water hose.
* Weighs empty truck and records weight.
* Computes difference between loaded and unloaded weights of truck to verify accuracy of meter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends pump that pumps incoming milk from tank trucks to storage tank, and computes and records volume of milk received. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs loaded truck on platform scale and records weight on record sheet.
* Dips and pours sample of milk from vent hole of truck into bottle for laboratory analysis.
* Tastes and takes temperature of milk, and records taste data and temperature reading.
* Connects plastic hose between sanitary valves of truck and storage tank, starts pump, and turns valves to transfer milk to tank.
* Stops pump when transfer is completed, reads milk-flow meter, and records volume pumped on record sheet.
* Disconnects plastic hose from truck tank and connects nozzle of tank-cleaning system to vent hole of tank.
* Starts equipment that automatically rinses, washes, and sanitizes interior of tank.
* Removes nozzle and seals vent hole.
* Washes exterior of truck and pumping equipment, using brushes, detergent solution, and water hose.
* Weighs empty truck and records weight.
* Computes difference between loaded and unloaded weights of truck to verify accuracy of meter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who loads racks with bakery products to prepare orders for shipping, according to products available and following order slips. Respnsibilities include:
* Adjusts amount of products going to routes according to supply and route-return records of driver, sales route.
* Loads products onto tiered racks and pushes racks to loading area.
* Records adjustments on route slips.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who loads racks with bakery products to prepare orders for shipping, according to products available and following order slips. Respnsibilities include:
* Adjusts amount of products going to routes according to supply and route-return records of driver, sales route.
* Loads products onto tiered racks and pushes racks to loading area.
* Records adjustments on route slips.
Industry:Professional careers
