Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
Updating deployment plans in automated systems and coordinating their execution transfers to maintaining production schedules and coordinating shipping activities.
How to prepare: Build a sample production schedule in Microsoft Excel and practice revising it for material shortages, recording the changes and notifications needed.
What the civilian work involves
- Revise production schedules when required due to design changes, labor or material shortages, backlogs, or other interruptions, collaborating with management, marketing, sales, production, or engineering.
- Review documents, such as production schedules, work orders, or staffing tables, to determine personnel or materials requirements or material priorities.
- Confer with establishment personnel, vendors, or customers to coordinate production or shipping activities and to resolve complaints or eliminate delays.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Outlook