- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who receives and examines small arms and keeps records of arms returned by customers for repair. Respnsibilities include:
* Receives, unpacks, and examines weapons for live ammunition or mutilated serial numbers.
* Prepares repair order from customer's request and routes with gun to repair department or sends weapon to gun examiner and types work order based on report.
* Verifies repairs made to gun and delivers with invoices to shipping department.
* Files copies of invoices, cost estimates, and other correspondence concerning receipt, repair, and return of weapon to customer in order to keep record of transaction.
* May keep inventory of spare parts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who receives and examines small arms and keeps records of arms returned by customers for repair. Respnsibilities include:
* Receives, unpacks, and examines weapons for live ammunition or mutilated serial numbers.
* Prepares repair order from customer's request and routes with gun to repair department or sends weapon to gun examiner and types work order based on report.
* Verifies repairs made to gun and delivers with invoices to shipping department.
* Files copies of invoices, cost estimates, and other correspondence concerning receipt, repair, and return of weapon to customer in order to keep record of transaction.
* May keep inventory of spare parts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles and maintains records of quantity, type, and value of material, equipment, merchandise, or supplies stocked in establishment. Respnsibilities include:
* Counts material, equipment, merchandise, or supplies in stock and posts totals to inventory records, manually or using computer.
* Compares inventories to office records or computes figures from records, such as sales orders, production records, or purchase invoices to obtain current inventory.
* Verifies clerical computations against physical count of stock and adjusts errors in computation or count, or investigates and reports reasons for discrepancies.
* Compiles information on receipt or disbursement of material, equipment, merchandise, or supplies, and computes inventory balance, price, and cost.
* Prepares reports, such as inventory balance, price lists, and shortages.
* Prepares list of depleted items and recommends survey of defective or unusable items.
* May operate office machines, such as typewriter or calculator.
* May stock and issue materials or merchandise.
* May be designated according to item inventoried as Property-And-Equipment Clerk (petrol.
* & gas); or type of inventory as Inventory Clerk, Physical.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who stores, inventories, and issues or distributes bed and table linen and uniforms in establishments, such as hotels, hospitals, and clinics. Respnsibilities include:
* Collects or receives and segregates, counts, and records number of items of soiled linen and uniforms for repair or laundry, and places items in containers.
* Examines laundered items to ensure cleanliness and serviceability.
* Stamps items with identifying marks.
* Stores laundered items on shelves, after verifying numbers and types of items.
* Counts and assembles laundered items on cart or linen truck, records amounts of linens and uniforms to fill requisitions, and transports carts to floors.
* Conducts monthly and yearly inventories to identify items for replacement.
* Keeps linen room in clean and orderly condition.
* May mend torn articles with needle and thread or sewing machine or send articles to sewer, linen room.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles and maintains records of quantity, cost, and type of material received, stocked, and issued, and prepares material requisitions. Respnsibilities include:
* Compares information on requisitions, invoices, and shipping notices to material received or issued to verify accuracy of order.
* Compiles and maintains inventory of material received, stocked, and issued.
* Prepares requests for procurement of material.
* May inspect, accept, or reject material received.
* May mark identifying information on material.
* May be designated according to location of goods as Warehouse-Record Clerk.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles and maintains records of quantity, cost, and type of material received, stocked, and issued, and prepares material requisitions. Respnsibilities include:
* Compares information on requisitions, invoices, and shipping notices to material received or issued to verify accuracy of order.
* Compiles and maintains inventory of material received, stocked, and issued.
* Prepares requests for procurement of material.
* May inspect, accept, or reject material received.
* May mark identifying information on material.
* May be designated according to location of goods as Warehouse-Record Clerk.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who wraps, inspects, weighs, and affixes postage to parcel post packages, and records c.o.d.
* and insurance information. Respnsibilities include:
* Wraps packages or inspects wrapping for conformance to company standards and postal regulations.
* Weighs packages and determines postage, using scale and parcel post zone book, and affixes postage stamps to packages.
* Records information, such as value, charges, and destination of insured and c.o.d.
* packages.
* Copies and attaches c.o.d.
* card to packages to indicate amount to be collected.
* Addresses packages or compares addresses with records to verify accuracy.
* May compute cost of merchandise, shipping fees, and other charges, and bill customer.
* May sort parcels for shipment, according to destination or other classification, and place parcels in mail bags or bins and be designated Mail-Order Sorter.
* May process incoming and outgoing mail.
* May fill orders from stock and be designated Parcel-Post Order-Clerk.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who appraises and classifies telephone equipment returned by telephone companies to determine disposition and price. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines returned supplies and apparatus to identify and classify returns according to price lists and catalogs.
* Determines adaptability for current use.
* Records classification, price, and disposition.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who verifies and keeps records on incoming and outgoing shipments and prepares items for shipment. Respnsibilities include:
* Compares identifying information and counts, weighs, or measures items of incoming and outgoing shipments to verify information against bills of lading, invoices, orders, or other records.
* Determines method of shipment, utilizing knowledge of shipping procedures, routes, and rates.
* Affixes shipping labels on packed cartons or stencils identifying shipping information on cartons, using stenciling equipment.
* Assembles wooden or cardboard containers or selects preassembled containers.
* Inserts items into containers, using spacers, fillers, and protective padding.
* Nails covers on wooden crates and binds containers with metal tape, using strapping machine.
* Stamps, stencils, or glues identifying information and shipping instructions onto crates or containers.
* Posts weights and shipping charges, and affixes postage.
* Unpacks and examines incoming shipments, rejects damaged items, records shortages, and corresponds with shipper to rectify damages and shortages.
* Routes items to departments.
* Examines outgoing shipments to ensure shipments meet specifications.
* Maintains inventory of shipping materials and supplies.
* May operate tier-lift truck or use handtruck to move, convey, or hoist shipments from shipping-and-receiving platform to storage or work area.
* May direct others in preparing outgoing and receiving incoming shipments.
* May perform only shipping or receiving activities and be known as Shipping Clerk or Receiving Clerk.
* May be designated according to specialty as Freight Clerk; Reshipping Clerk.
* May receive damaged or defective goods returned to establishment and be designated Returned-Goods Receiving Clerk.
* May receive unsold products returned by driver, sales route and be designated Route Returner.
Industry:Professional careers
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
