Clerk Typist

Job description

Overview
The Clerk Typist performs various typing and clerical tasks, files records and reports, and performs general office work.
Responsibilities
• Types correspondence, reports, forms, cards, requisitions, and other related documents.
• Operates office equipment, including photocopiers, postage meters, and adding machines.
• Maintains control of documents that originate within or pass through the department through effective logging, posting, filing, and recordkeeping processes.
• Searches files and records to retrieve correspondence, reports, and other documents as needed.
• Answers telephone calls and takes messages.
• Receives, sorts, and distributes incoming mail.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications
Required Education
• High School diploma, commercial school graduate, or GED equivalent with coursework in typing and English required.

Preferred Experience
• Six (6) months to one (1) year of clerical or administrative experience preferred.

Required Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities
• Ability to accurately type a minimum of 45 words per minute (WPM).
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel spreadsheet analysis and Microsoft Word.
• Ability to prioritize work and collaborate closely with Materials Management staff and departmental requesters to troubleshoot issues involving Lawson.
• Working knowledge of grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
• Clerical experience or on-the-job training in posting, filing, and records maintenance methods.
• Clerical aptitude necessary to proofread documents and avoid transposition and other administrative errors.
• Basic computer knowledge.