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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Coordinate and expedite the flow of work and materials within or between departments of an establishment according to production schedule. Duties include reviewing and distributing production, work, and shipment schedules; conferring with department supervisors to determine progress of work and completion dates; and compiling reports on progress of work, inventory levels, costs, and production problems. | Examine documents, materials, and products, and monitor work processes, in order to assess completeness, accuracy, and conformance to standards and specifications. | |||
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Review documents such as production schedules, work orders, and staffing tables to determine personnel and materials requirements, and material priorities. | ||||
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Confer with department supervisors and other personnel to assess progress and discuss needed changes. | ||||
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Revise production schedules when required due to design changes, labor or material shortages, backlogs, or other interruptions, collaborating with management, marketing, sales, production, and engineering. | ||||
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Confer with establishment personnel, vendors, and customers to coordinate production and shipping activities, and to resolve complaints or eliminate delays. | ||||
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Record production data, including volume produced, consumption of raw materials, and quality control measures. | ||||
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Requisition and maintain inventories of materials and supplies necessary to meet production demands. | ||||
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Calculate figures such as required amounts of labor and materials, manufacturing costs, and wages, using pricing schedules, adding machines, calculators, or computers. | ||||
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Distribute production schedules and work orders to departments. | ||||
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Compile information, such as production rates and progress, materials inventories, materials used, and customer information, so that status reports can be completed. | ||||
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Arrange for delivery, assembly, and distribution of supplies and parts in order to expedite flow of materials and meet production schedules. | ||||
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Contact suppliers to verify shipment details. | ||||
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Maintain files such as maintenance records, bills of lading, and cost reports. | ||||
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Plan production commitments and timetables for business units, specific programs, and/or jobs, using sales forecasts. | ||||
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Establish and prepare product construction directions and locations, and information on required tools, materials, and equipment, numbers of workers needed, and cost projections. | ||||
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Compile and prepare documentation related to production sequences, transportation, personnel schedules, and purchase, maintenance, and repair orders. | ||||
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Provide documentation and information to account for delays, difficulties, and changes to cost estimates. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Production and Processing | Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods. | |||
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Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. | |||
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Computers and Electronics | Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. | |||
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Administration and Management | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. | |||
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English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. | |||
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Mathematics | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. | |||
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Clerical | Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. | |||
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Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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Writing | Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. | |||
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Persuasion | Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. | |||
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Negotiation | Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences. | |||
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Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Fluency of Ideas | The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). | |||
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Originality | The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. | |||
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Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |||
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Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. | |||
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Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. | |||
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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
ABB Production Planning software | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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ADi SmartBOL | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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Accvision ABMIS | Inventory management software | |||
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Aestiva Purchase Order | Procurement software | |||
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Applied Software Technologies Asset Maintenance and Materials Management System | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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Asprova software | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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Bills of lading software | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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Concept 3000 software | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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Cost estimation software | Financial analysis software | |||
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Creo Synapse Upfront | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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DM2 Bills of Lading Software | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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ERP INDUSTRIOS Material Planning | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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Enterprise Logix software | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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Epicor Vantage | Enterprise resource planning ERP software | |||
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Exact Software Macola ES | Enterprise resource planning ERP software | |||
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Factory Edge MRP | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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Geac MPC Production | Enterprise resource planning ERP software | |||
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Giraffe Production Systems software | Enterprise resource planning ERP software | |||
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Honeywell Wintress PACNet | Industrial control software | |||
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IBM Lotus Notes | Electronic mail software | |||
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InetSoft software | Data base reporting software | |||
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Ingenious ProPlan | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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Ingenious ProSched | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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InteProc Material Requirements Planning | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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Interwave Technology RS Bizware Scheduler | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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Intuit QuickBooks software | Accounting software | |||
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KAPES software | Analytical or scientific software | |||
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LSA Visual DBR | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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LSA Visual Easy Lean | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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Lamar Info Net | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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MTI Systems Costimator JS | Analytical or scientific software | |||
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Made2Manage Supply Chain Management | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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Maynard PlanStaff Manager | Enterprise resource planning ERP software | |||
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Maynard PlanStaff Manager (human resources feature) | Human resources software | |||
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Micro Estimating FabPlan | Analytical or scientific software | |||
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MicroStrategy Report Services | Enterprise resource planning ERP software | |||
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Microsoft Excel | Spreadsheet software | |||
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Microsoft Office software | Office suite software | |||
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Microsoft Outlook | Electronic mail software | |||
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Microsoft Word | Word processing software | |||
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Niku Clarity | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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Oracle Flow Manufacturing | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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PMC KanbanSIM | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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PRONTO Xi | Enterprise resource planning ERP software | |||
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Pelion manufacturing process optimization MPO software | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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Pivotal Z Prestige Scheduler | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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Preactor APS | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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Preactor Finite Capacity Scheduling | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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Production scheduling and planning software | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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Questek Humanis | Human resources software | |||
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RSS Solutions NaView | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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RyTech Inventory Control Software | Inventory management software | |||
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SAP software | Enterprise resource planning ERP software | |||
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SYSPRO software | Enterprise resource planning ERP software | |||
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Sage MAS 90 | Enterprise resource planning ERP software | |||
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Sage Peachtree Premium Accounting for Manufacturing | Accounting software | |||
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Sage Timberline Office software | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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Stratford Group INMASS/MRP | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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Tuppas software | Data base reporting software | |||
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Waterloo Hydrogeologic TACTIC | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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Work Technology WorkTech Time | Time accounting software | |||
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Workbrain Employee Scheduling | Calendar and scheduling software | |||
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Workbrain Time and Attendance | Time accounting software | |||
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eLading Bill of Lading Software | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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iCode Everest | Inventory management software | |||
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Desktop computers | Desktop computers | |||
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Notebook computers | Notebook computers | |||
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Personal computers | Personal computers | |||
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Scanners | Scanners | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Required Level of Education | High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate) | |||
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Related Work Experience | Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | Up to and including 1 month | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Advertising Dispatch Clerk | |||
Aircraft Log Clerk | |||
Airplane Dispatch Clerk | |||
Alterations Workroom Clerk | |||
Assignment Agent | |||
Assignment Clerk | |||
Back Shoe Worker | |||
Batch Records Clerk | |||
Beef Tagger | |||
Billet Recorder | |||
Box Estimator | |||
Checker In | |||
Clerical Production Worker | |||
Computer Processing Scheduler | |||
Computerized Mill Recorder | |||
Control Clerk | |||
Control Tower Operator | |||
Copy Cutter | |||
Crew Scheduler | |||
Customer Services Coordinator | |||
Cycle Counter | |||
Data Processing Control Clerk | |||
Dispatcher | |||
Dispatcher Clerk | |||
Ends Breakage Clerk | |||
Engineering Clerk | |||
Engineering Document Control Clerk | |||
Expediter | |||
Expediter Clerk | |||
Expeditor | |||
Extension Clerk | |||
Fabric and Accessories Estimator | |||
Flight Information Expediter | |||
Follow Up Clerk | |||
Food and Beverage Analyst | |||
Formula Clerk | |||
Frequency Checker | |||
Gas Flow Regulator | |||
General Manager (GM) | |||
Inventory Analyst | |||
Inventory Auditor | |||
Inventory Control Specialist | |||
Inventory Controller | |||
Inventory Coordinator | |||
Inventory Management Specialist | |||
Inventory Planner | |||
Inventory Technician | |||
Jacket Preparer | |||
Jewelry Estimator | |||
Job Checker | |||
Job Estimator | |||
Job Spotter | |||
Job Tracer | |||
Kit Planner | |||
Kitman | |||
Labor Expediter | |||
Line Up Worker | |||
Load Planner | |||
Locomotive Lubricating Systems Clerk | |||
Logistics Clerk | |||
Logistics Technician | |||
Lot Worker | |||
Lumber Estimator | |||
Machine Stoppage Frequency Checker | |||
Maintenance Data Analyst | |||
Maintenance Planner | |||
Maintenance Scheduler | |||
Manufacturing Planner | |||
Master Scheduler | |||
Material Control Clerk | |||
Material Controller | |||
Material Coordinator | |||
Material Dispatcher | |||
Material Expediter | |||
Material Lister | |||
Material Man | |||
Material Planner | |||
Material Requisitioner | |||
Material Scheduler | |||
Material Worker | |||
Materials Clerk | |||
Materials Coordinator | |||
Materials Planner | |||
Melter Clerk | |||
Metal Checker | |||
Metal Control Coordinator | |||
Metal Flow Coordinator | |||
Mill Order Scheduler | |||
Mill Recorder | |||
Millwork Estimator | |||
Office Manager | |||
Operations Agent | |||
Optimizer | |||
Order Detailer | |||
Order Dispatcher | |||
Order Expediter | |||
Order Planner | |||
Order Schedule Clerk | |||
Paperboard Boxes Estimator | |||
Paperboard Products Production Scheduler | |||
Parts Cataloguer | |||
Parts Expediter | |||
Personnel Scheduler | |||
Piece Goods Clerk | |||
Planner | |||
Planner Scheduler | |||
Planning Specialist | |||
Planning Technician | |||
Plant Clerk | |||
Print Traffic Manager | |||
Printing Estimator | |||
Procurement Cost Coordinator | |||
Production Assistant | |||
Production Associate | |||
Production Checker | |||
Production Clerk | |||
Production Control Clerk | |||
Production Control Coordinating Clerk | |||
Production Control Coordinator | |||
Production Control Expediter | |||
Production Controller | |||
Production Coordinator | |||
Production Counter | |||
Production Dispatcher | |||
Production Engineering Tooling Coordinator | |||
Production Expediter | |||
Production Manager | |||
Production Planner | |||
Production Planning Manager | |||
Production Scheduler | |||
Production Supervisor | |||
Progress Clerk | |||
Pullman Car Clerk | |||
Railroad Maintenance Clerk | |||
Recorder | |||
Relay Record Clerk | |||
Repair Clerk | |||
Repair Order Clerk | |||
Reproduction Order Processor | |||
Requisition Approver | |||
Retort Load Expediter | |||
Schedule Checker | |||
Schedule Clerk | |||
Schedule Maker | |||
Scheduler | |||
Scheduling Coordinator | |||
Scheduling Manager | |||
School Photographs Detailer | |||
Service Control Operator | |||
Service Liaison Representative | |||
Service Order Expediter | |||
Shipping Coordinator | |||
Shop Clerk | |||
Shop Router | |||
Stock Chaser | |||
Television Production Clerk | |||
Television Schedule Coordinator | |||
Ticket Scheduler | |||
Timer | |||
Tower Operator | |||
Towerman | |||
Traffic Clerk | |||
Traffic Manager | |||
Transportation Agent | |||
Upholstery Estimator | |||
Weave Defect Charting Clerk | |||
Work Ticket Distributor | |||
Yardage Control Clerk | |||
Yardage Estimator | |||
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