Elements and Performance Criteria
- Confirm resources required
- Analyse resource schedule to identify internal and external resources required for each stage in the production process
- Consult with all departments involved in the production to clarify and confirm their requirements
- Confirm accuracy and feasibility of resource schedule against overall production requirements
- Identify non-resource issues that may affect production schedule, and collate and compile relevant information
- Compile production schedules
- Allocate resources and create schedule that will deliver production on time and within budget
- Identify and accommodate issues that could affect the timing and sequence of tasks within schedule, and resolve within scope of own role
- Check allocated time enables efficient and safe use of resources
- Identify factors that may cause production delays and develop contingency plans to accommodate them
- Finalise production schedules
- Confirm the schedule is accurate, comprehensive and presented clearly
- Distribute schedule promptly to relevant personnel and allow adequate opportunities for them to ask questions and seek clarification
- Resolve difficulties in the interpretation or implementation of schedule as required
- Revise schedule as required, and communicate changes promptly to relevant internal and external personnel
- Develop and maintain an appropriate, clear and easily accessible recording system for all information relating to production schedule