Job Description:

• 1) Purchases, stores, and issues spare parts for motor vehicles or industrial equipment: Obtains purchase order number from purchasing department and assigns identifying number.

• 2) Reads shop manuals to ascertain type and specification of part.

• 3) Visits, telephones, telegraphs, or contacts vendors by mail to order parts.

• 4) Compares invoices against requisitions to verify quality and quantity of merchandise received.

• 5) Stores purchased parts in storeroom bins and issues parts to workers upon request.

• 6) Keeps records of parts received and issued, and inventories parts in storeroom periodically.

• 7) May record repair time expended by mechanics.

• 8) May requisition parts from central parts department for national organization.