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.