Amenities:The County of Northumberland offers a full benefits package to employees including health insurance, prescription, vision, dental, vacation, holiday, sick, personal time, and retirement. Position Summary:Data entry devices and verifies the data already punched. Does related work as required. Data entry clerk is responsible for accurate and timely entering and verifying of information on a production basis. judgment and initiative are required to apply established procedures and instructions to various types of work.Work is performed under the supervision of the Data Entry Supervisor.What You'll Do:
- Encodes information from several sources and verifies the accuracy of entered information.
- Selects correct program cards or cassettes for operations to be performed. Prepares new program cards or cassettes.
- Organizes and arranges documents and reduces data to numeric or alphabetic codes according to an established procedure.
- Operates peripheral equipment.
RequirementsJob Requirements/Skills & Abilities:
- Some knowledge of Equipment used in entering data.
- Ability to read and record information through data entry devices rapidly and accurately.
- Ability to apply correct instructions and procedures to different types of material.
- Ability to recognize errors and inconsistencies in material to be punched.
- Ability to follow oral and written directions.
- Ability to establish and maintain working relationships with coworkers, and to follow established office routines.
- Good physical condition.
Minimum Training & Experience:
- Of a standard high school course including or supplemented by courses in typing, or any equivalent combination of experience and training which provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities.