Stockers and Order Fillers

What the job really is

Receive, store, and issue merchandise, materials, equipment, and other items from stockroom, warehouse, or storage yard to fill shelves, racks, tables, or customers' orders. May operate power equipment to fill orders. May mark prices on merchandise and set up sales displays.

At a glance

• Sector: Transportation & Material Moving
• O*NET-SOC code: 53-7065
• O*NET job zone: 2 — some preparation
• Work sample tasks on file: 12
• Tools and technologies listed: 12

What you actually do

Work sample tasks recorded for this occupation:

• Recommend disposal of excess, defective, or obsolete stock.
• Complete order receipts.
• Answer customers' questions about merchandise and advise customers on merchandise selection.
• Issue or distribute materials, products, parts, and supplies to customers or coworkers, based on information from incoming requisitions.
• Keep records of out-going orders.
• Stock shelves, racks, cases, bins, and tables with new or transferred merchandise.
• Operate equipment such as forklifts.
• Stamp, attach, or change price tags on merchandise, referring to price list.
• Obtain merchandise from bins or shelves.
• Receive and count stock items, and record data manually or on computer.
• Read orders to ascertain catalog numbers, sizes, colors, and quantities of merchandise.
• Receive, unload, open, unpack, or issue sales floor merchandise.

Tools and technology

Google Docs, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office software, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Word, SAP software, 10-key calculators, Baling equipment, Barcode scanners, Box cutters

What employers expect you to already be comfortable with.

Where this job leads

Related occupations — the usual moves up and sideways:

• Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks
• Counter and Rental Clerks
• Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping
• Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
• Retail Salespersons
• Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators
• Cashiers
• Postal Service Clerks

Getting in

O*NET assigns this occupation job zone 2 (some preparation). The related occupations above are the realistic routes in and out.

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