Production Coordinator
OFO Code: 432201
Last checked 3 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 432201
- Occupation
- Production Coordinator
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- CLERICAL SUPPORT WORKERS
- Unit group
- 4322 · Production Clerks
Official description
Production clerks compute quantities of materials required at specified dates for manufacturing, construction and similar production programmes, and prepare and check production operation schedules.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Planning and Liaison Officer, Shift Controller, Production Leader, Printing Coordinator, Distribution Controller, Production Planning Officer, Seed Harvesting Leader, Production Recorder / Scheduler, Production Clerk, Delivery Clerk, Schedule Clerk, Material and Production Planning Clerk, Production Foreman, Parts Warehouse Clerk, Production Planner / Officer, Manufacturing Distributor, Fresh Produce Dispatch Controller, Quota Controller, Logistics Clerk / Assistant / Controller / Coordinator / Planner / Officer, Fresh Produce Receiving Coordinator
- Recording and coordinating the flow of work and materials between departments
- Verifying stocks, arranging deliveries and investigating delays
- Preparing or assisting in the preparation of production operation schedules on the basis of customers' orders and production capacity and performance
- Preparing production requirements schedules, ensuring that materials are available when needed, and keeping relevant records
- Computing quantities, qualities and types of materials required by production programme
2. Demand status
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
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10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Planned
- DHET Occupations in High Demand · Planned
- Critical Skills List · Planned
- QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Planned
- Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Planned
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