What You'll Do

  • Examine documents, materials, or products and monitor work processes to assess completeness, accuracy, and conformance to standards and specifications.
  • Review documents, such as production schedules, work orders, or staffing tables, to determine personnel or materials requirements or material priorities.
  • Confer with department supervisors or other personnel to assess progress and discuss needed changes.
  • 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.
  • Confer with establishment personnel, vendors, or customers to coordinate production or shipping activities and to resolve complaints or eliminate delays.
  • Record production data, including volume produced, consumption of raw materials, or quality control measures.
  • Requisition and maintain inventories of materials or supplies necessary to meet production demands.
  • Calculate figures, such as required amounts of labor or materials, manufacturing costs, or wages, using pricing schedules, adding machines, calculators, or computers.
  • Distribute production schedules or work orders to departments.
  • Compile information, such as production rates and progress, materials inventories, materials used, or customer information, so that status reports can be completed.

Essential Skills

Reading Comprehension 3.62/5
Speaking 3.62/5
Active Listening 3.5/5
Time Management 3.5/5
Critical Thinking 3.38/5
Writing 3.12/5
Monitoring 3.12/5
Complex Problem Solving 3.12/5
Coordination 3.0/5
Social Perceptiveness 2.88/5
Judgment and Decision Making 2.88/5
Systems Analysis 2.88/5

Career Fit Overview

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Top passions

  • Organizer: Bringing order to data and processes satisfies you.
  • Leader: Taking charge and moving ideas forward motivates you.
  • Maker: Building and fixing energizes you. You like tangible results and practical tools.

Common styles

Attention to Detail, Dependability, Self-Control, Cooperation, Integrity

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Key Abilities

This career demands strong capabilities in the following areas:

Oral Comprehension 3.88/5
Information Ordering 3.88/5
Oral Expression 3.75/5
Problem Sensitivity 3.75/5
Written Comprehension 3.62/5
Near Vision 3.62/5
Written Expression 3.5/5
Deductive Reasoning 3.5/5

Technologies & Tools

ABB Production Planning Accvision ABMIS ADi SmartBOL Adobe Acrobat Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Adobe Photoshop Aestiva Purchase Order Airtable Applied Software Technologies Asset Maintenance and Materials Management System Asprova Bill of lading software Bills of lading software Cost estimating software Creo Synapse Upfront Data entry software Database software DM2 Bills of Lading Enterprise Logix Epicor Vantage ERP

Work Environment & Style

Common Styles for This Career

  • Attention to Detail (High importance: 4.76/5)
  • Dependability (High importance: 4.7/5)
  • Self-Control (High importance: 4.55/5)
  • Cooperation (High importance: 4.41/5)
  • Integrity (High importance: 4.41/5)

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How to Become One

Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience may be helpful but is usually not required. Training is often provided on the job.

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