Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
Coordinating planned maintenance, managing maintenance data systems, and serving as the unit's availability manager transfer directly to work-order and schedule coordination.
How to prepare: Build a sample work-order schedule in Microsoft Excel that identifies material needs and shows how you would revise priorities after a parts delay.
What the civilian work involves
- Distribute production schedules or work orders to departments.
- 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.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Outlook