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Stockers and Order Fillers

  • Bright Outlook
  • Rapid Growth
  • Numerous Job Openings

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.

What you’d do

  • Take inventory or examine merchandise to identify items to be reordered or replenished.
  • Answer customers' questions about merchandise and advise customers on merchandise selection.
  • Receive and count stock items, and record data manually or on computer.
  • Receive, unload, open, unpack, or issue sales floor merchandise.
  • Stock shelves, racks, cases, bins, and tables with new or transferred merchandise.
  • Pack and unpack items to be stocked on shelves in stockrooms, warehouses, or storage yards.
  • Mark stock items, using identification tags, stamps, electric marking tools, or other labeling equipment.
  • Store items in an orderly and accessible manner in warehouses, tool rooms, supply rooms, or other areas.

Skills that matter

  • Active Listening
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Coordination
  • Critical Thinking
  • Service Orientation
  • Social Perceptiveness

How to get there

Little to some preparation: usually a high school diploma or GED, though some jobs do not need one

Also called

  • Order Filler
  • Stock Clerk
  • Stocker
  • Warehouse Worker
  • Checker Stocker
  • Inventory Technician (Inventory Tech)

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