Index
Intro
Production logistics co-ordinators co-ordinate and expedite the flow of work and materials within an establishment, prepare work and production schedules and monitor the progress of production and construction projects. Production clerks are employed by manufacturing and construction companies, printing and publishing companies and other industrial establishments.
Progression to supervisory positions is possible with experience.
Main Duties
Production logistics co-ordinators perform some or all of the following duties:
- Compile detailed worksheets and specifications from customer’s order
- Estimate type and quantity of materials and labour required for production, construction and other projects
- Consult with production supervisor to schedule production runs in a cost and time-efficient manner
- Meet regularly with other production clerks, warehouse, production and construction supervisors and purchasing and inventory clerks to co-ordinate activities between warehouses and production floors or construction sites
- Co-ordinate and monitor logistics of the movement of parts, supplies and materials within an establishment and ensure that supplies, materials and products are shipped and received on schedule
- Prepare and maintain various reports on the progress of work, materials used, rates of production and other production information, using manual or computerized systems.
Employment Requirements
- Completion of secondary school is usually required and college may be required.
- Previous clerical experience or experience as a production worker may be required.
All Titles
- construction progress report clerk
- construction schedule co-ordinator
- control clerk, production
- control officer, steel mill
- delivery checker
- expediter
- expediter, purchasing
- industrial order completion checking clerk
- logistics inbound/outbound co-ordinator – production
- lumber tallyman/womanlumber tallyman, lumber tallywoman
- manufacturing order clerk
- material checker
- material co-ordinator
- material estimator
- motor vehicle repair shop co-ordinator
- order clerk, manufacturing
- production agent
- production clerk
- production control clerk
- production controller
- production co-ordinator
- production expediter
- production material estimator
- production officer
- production scheduler
- progress report clerk, construction
- purchasing expediter
- recording clerk – broadcasting
- schedule clerk
- scheduling clerk
- service sector worker
- shipping control clerk
- steel mill control officer
- supply chain co-ordinator – production
- supply clerk – aeronautics
- supply clerk – production
- supply needs estimator
- tally clerktallyman, tallywoman
- tallyman/woman
- tallyman/woman – productiontallyman – production, tallywoman – production
- traffic clerk
- traffic clerk – broadcasting
- traffic control clerk
- vehicle servicing clerk
Exclusions
- Purchasing and inventory control workers (1524)
- Shippers and receivers (1521)
- Storekeepers and partspersons (1522)
- Supervisors, supply chain, tracking and scheduling co-ordination occupations (1215)