Clerk Job Description
Clerk
provides customer service to all trucks at the scales, verifying product, job and truck weights; issuing sales tickets and completing end of day reconciliation.
Clerk Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective clerk job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included clerk job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure amounts are correct and that there is adequate change
Monitor checkout stations to ensure there is adequate cash available
Handle electronic copy requests
Copy data and audio using CD/DVD duplicator
Maintain proper duplicating functions
Perform meter reads
Oversee collections
Submit billings and invoices
Scan documents and files
Opening / sorting mail
Clerk Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Clerk
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: MRPT, RCRA, DOT, WIC, IATA, CDL, US, ASE, DEA
Education for Clerk
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the clerk job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as High School and Associate Degree in General Education, Education, Accounting, Business, Associates, Finance, Supervision, Management, Computer, Technical
Skills for Clerk
Desired skills for clerk include:
Products sold within the department and be able to respond to questions and make suggestions about products
Basic math
Math
Measures
Weights
Basic cash handling procedures
Scales and weight measures to accurately weigh and label products
Weights and measures
Product content and perishability
Safety and sanitation procedures and department policies and government regulations
Desired experience for clerk includes:
Performing data entry to process invoices
Maintain and match invoices
Sort and file office materials
Scan and prepare documents
Interact with HR, business management, and recruiting
Support US HR business partners in translating employee movements and organization structure into HRIS system grades, job profiles, and positions
Clerk Examples
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Clerk Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of clerk. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for clerk
- Helping with check insurance
- Run computer reports
- Check printers for any issues
- Receives and sorts incoming and outgoing mail and packages according to postal regulations and unit requirements
- Receive and scan Purchase order deliveries
- Scan customer files in order into the system
- Perform various administrative tasks as assigned for the department
- Pick-up and delivery of reports including daily telephone statistics, mail reports, documents
- Answering phones, check requests, using Outlook to access emails, filing, faxing, keeping logs via Excel, copying, and scanning
- Completing paperwork for upcoming events, ensuring payment for events, and updating an Excel spreadsheet to track events
Qualifications for clerk
- Operates, maintains, and updates information via computer
- Prefer experience in a factory or warehouse environment
- Minimum of one year experience using WMS, ERP, or similar systems
- Powered vehicle certification preferred (if not currently certified, must achieve powered vehicle certification within 80 hours of training time in position)
- Occasional standing and walking and extended periods of sitting
- Telephone usage of approximately three to five hours per day
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a clerk. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for clerk
- Keeps clerical supplies well stocked and work stations neat and clean
- Assist management and representatives with special projects – signing claim forms, printing claim forms, online insurance verification, processing approved adjustments
- Updating spreadsheets and reports
- Operate a computer using basic word processing and spreadsheet entry and manipulation skills
- Operate office machines, such as photocopiers and scanners, facsimile machines, voice mail systems
- Perform basic clerical tasks, such as systematically arranging letters, memoranda, invoices, receipts, and other indexed documents according to an established system
- Locate and remove material from file when requested
- Operates office equipment and completes general office work
- Additional duties may include answering telephones and some data entry
- Respond to routine inquires via telephone, fax, or email
Qualifications for clerk
- Frequent lifting of up to 25 pounds and occasional lifting of up to 50 pounds
- Occasional bending, pushing, pulling, and stooping
- Performs repetitive data entry functions on computer keyboard and ten-key calculator
- Basic typing ability and working knowledge of basic computer functions
- Able to work independently with excellent problem solving capabilities
- Good communication skills both on the telephone and personally
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a clerk. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for clerk
- Run reports and distribute as necessary
- Validate information and provides feedback to management
- This position provides moderately advanced administrative clerical support to assigned unit
- Under close supervision, performs moderately complex clerical duties, including creation, maintenance, retrieval, and destruction of files and records
- May also handle telephone inquiries, perform data entry, and prepare standard reports and forms
- Performs duties which may support users in multiple business units
- Provides administrative support which enables assigned business unit to offer more efficient service to members and other business units
- This position requires some independent decision-making
- Cross training on department job functions or receptionist duties may be necessary
- Work tends to be routine and most decisions are described in detail within written procedure manuals
Qualifications for clerk
- Must be organized, detail oriented with excellent follow through abilities
- Must be able to handle and prioritize multiple tasks
- Must be reliable, team-oriented, pleasant with excellent interpersonal skills
- Previous office experience is REQUIRED
- Must be able to lift and move boxes that may weigh up to 30#
- Ability to scan documents
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of clerk. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for clerk
- General collection management including re-envisioning layout and design of collection, completing inventory, accessioning objects, taking objects out of unsafe mounts, conservation evaluation
- Build secure storage and travel mounts for objects
- Assist with data collection and organization of databases
- Research Museum objects, artists, cultures, and time periods
- Handling other administrative tasks as necessary
- Handle administrative and clerical duties, such as photocopying, filing, scanning, binding, archiving and registering drawings
- Researching and setting up recoveries of claims payments
- Handle recording payments to accounts, aging reports, a lot of Excel and WORD documents, and managing their accounts through the process and into collections (3rd party agency)
- Expereince with 10-key
- The ability to think through scenarios and understand the movement of money and what is happening with these accounts
Qualifications for clerk
- 1 year warehouse or retail experience
- Experience with heavy data entry tasks
- Ability to work as a team including flexibility and adaptability with co-workers and schedules
- Ability to stand for the majority of a shift
- Associates may be trained and required to use machinery or vehicles
- Proficient with MOVE, Retek, WMS, Outlook
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a clerk. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for clerk
- Handle general clerical duties, such as typing, filing, scanning, binding, indexing, internal and external document delivery
- Maintain database record
- Responsible for reconciliation of timesheets and entering payroll
- Various data entry and file management
- Various tasks working with Excel worksheets
- Administrative support for up to three to five managers
- Work order data management
- Front Desk/Phone Coverage
- Cell Phone Management
- General Support as needed
Qualifications for clerk
- Office environment with medium to heavy keyboarding and use of mouse
- Ability to lift fifteen pounds over head
- Capable of carrying twenty pounds for short distances
- Must be reliable, team-oriented, and pleasant with excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to lift 15-30 pound boxes and be physically mobile
- Prior experience with inventory