Stockers and Order Fillers
Tasks
Core Tasks Include:
- Complete order receipts.
- Obtain merchandise from bins or shelves.
- Read orders to ascertain catalog numbers, sizes, colors, and quantities of merchandise.
- Pack and unpack items to be stocked on shelves in stockrooms, warehouses, or storage yards.
- Store items in an orderly and accessible manner in warehouses, tool rooms, supply rooms, or other areas.
- Examine and inspect stock items for wear or defects, reporting any damage to supervisors.
- Answer customers' questions about merchandise and advise customers on merchandise selection.
- Receive and count stock items, and record data manually or on computer.
- Stamp, attach, or change price tags on merchandise, referring to price list.
- Stock shelves, racks, cases, bins, and tables with new or transferred merchandise.
- Mark stock items, using identification tags, stamps, electric marking tools, or other labeling equipment.
- Take inventory or examine merchandise to identify items to be reordered or replenished.
- Issue or distribute materials, products, parts, and supplies to customers or coworkers, based on information from incoming requisitions.
- Provide assistance or direction to other stockroom, warehouse, or storage yard workers.
- Clean display cases, shelves, and aisles.
- Design and set up advertising signs and displays of merchandise on shelves, counters, or tables to attract customers and promote sales.
- Pack customer purchases in bags or cartons.
- Dispose of damaged or defective items, or return them to vendors.
- Clean and maintain supplies, tools, equipment, and storage areas to ensure compliance with safety regulations.
- Recommend disposal of excess, defective, or obsolete stock.
- Keep records on the use or damage of stock or stock-handling equipment.
- Keep records of out-going orders.
- Determine proper storage methods, identification, and stock location, based on turnover, environmental factors, and physical capabilities of facilities.
- Operate equipment such as forklifts.
- Receive, unload, open, unpack, or issue sales floor merchandise.
Supplemental Tasks Include:
- Compare merchandise invoices to items actually received to ensure that shipments are correct.
- Itemize and total customer merchandise selection at checkout counter, using cash register, and accept cash or charge card for purchases.
- Transport packages to customers' vehicles.
- Compute prices of items or groups of items.
- Requisition merchandise from supplier, based on available space, merchandise on hand, customer demand, or advertised specials.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
