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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Assessment of performance is to be consistent with the Evidence Guide.
2. Identify resources to meet production requirements.
   • Determine demand for product.
   • Access and verify information on orders, stocks and delivery.
   • Determine material requirements.
   • Determine human resource requirements.
   • Determine health, safety or environment issues in meeting requirements.
3. Develop schedules
   • Determine production priorities.
   • Identify production opportunities ('windows').
   • Develop production schedules in accordance with procedures taking account of safety requirements.
   • Communicate and distribute production schedules to appropriate personnel.
4. Monitor production schedules.
   • Monitor production output against schedule.
   • Identify variations between production and schedule.
   • Record operational variation and discuss with appropriate personnel.
   • Identify possible cause of variation.
5. Adjust schedules.
   • Adjust schedules in response to operational variation.
   • Adjust schedules in response to unexpected events.
   • Distribute adjusted/amended schedules to appropriate personnel.
   • Maintain product output in accordance with production and health, safety and environment requirements.

Required Skills

This describes the essential skills and knowledge and their level required for this unit

Competence includes the ability to apply and explain

production objectives priorities targets and resource requirements

customer and quality requirements

process and plant operational requirements

hazards associated with the process

awareness of the hierarchy of control in controlling the hazards

impact of adjustments on processplant efficiencies and production outcomestargets

safety implications for scheduleschedule changes

planning sequencing monitoring and reviewing steps

company policies and procedures

as is relevant to scheduling of production to meet operational requirements

Language literacy and numeracy requirements

This unit requires the ability to access and interpret a range of written numeric and graphical data

Writing is required to the level of interpreting orders and forecasts and producing schedules and related reports

Numeracy is required to interpret numeric data and relevant statistics such as trends and cycles and from this calculate production and resource requirements

Evidence Required

The Evidence Guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the Performance Criteria required skills and knowledge the Range Statement and the Assessment Guidelines for this Training Package

Overview of assessment

A holistic approach should be taken to the assessment

Assessors must be satisfied that the person can consistently perform the unit as a whole as defined by the Elements Performance Criteria and skills and knowledge

This unit may be best assessed using a range of scenarioscase studies and what ifs as the stimulus with a walkthrough of the scheduling process forming part of the response These assessment activities should cover a range of problems including new unusual and improbable situations which may have been generated from the past incident history of the plant incidents on similar plants around the world hazard analysis activities and similar sources

Critical aspects

It is essential that competence is demonstrated in the knowledge and skills defined in this unit These may include the ability to

identify resource requirements

record monitor and adjust schedules in response to operational requirements

Consistent performance should be demonstrated For example look to see that

resource requirements are correctly identified in accordance with production requirements

schedules are planned for the most effective and efficient manner to meet operational requirements

schedules allow for safety health and environmental HSE issues and reinforce HSE priorities

timelines are adhered to

schedules are adjusted and resource requirements amended in response to operational variations

variations to schedules are communicated and documented appropriately

Context of assessment

This unit of competency will be assessed

on a processing plant

in as holistic a manner as is practical

over a range of situations which will include disruptions to normal smooth operation

through questioning and the use of what if scenarios both on the plant during demonstration of normal operations and walk throughs of abnormal operations and off the plant

by using a combination of these techniques

Assessment for this unit of competency may

be integrated with the assessment of other relevant units of competency

require simulation to allow for timely assessment of parts of the unit eg Elements and Simulation should be based on the actual plant and will include walk throughs of the relevant competency components Simulations may also include the use of case studiesscenarios and role plays

Method of assessment

In all cases it is expected that practical assessment will be combined with targeted questioning to assess the underpinning knowledge and theoretical assessment will be combined with appropriate practicalsimulation or similar assessment Assessors need to be aware of any cultural issues that may affect responses to questions

Assessment processes and techniques must be culturally appropriate and appropriate to the oracy language and literacy capacity of the assessee and the work being performed

Specific resources for assessment

This section should be read in conjunction with the Range Statement for this unit of competency Resources required include suitable access to an operating plant or equipment that allows for appropriate and realistic simulation A bank of case studiesscenarios and questions will also be required to the extent that they form part of the assessment method Questioning may take place either in the workplace or in an adjacent quiet facility such as an office or lunchroom No other special resources are required

Access must be provided to appropriate learning andor assessment support when required Where applicable physical resources should include equipment modified for people with disabilities

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Range Statement

The Range Statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Add any essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts.

Where reference is made to industry codes of practice, and/or Australian/international standards, the latest version must be used.

Context

This competency is typically performed by an experienced operator, team leader or similar.

Indicative functions include:

regular planning operations

communication with all relevant personnel, including management and administration.

Unit content areas include responses to:

immediate production needs

future production needs

reworking requirements.

Indicative information sources and resources include:

customer requirements

organisational plans, policies and procedures

production schedules, run plans

resource utilisation actuals and targets.

All operations are performed in accordance with standard operating procedures.

Procedures

All operations are performed in accordance with procedures.

Procedures means all relevant workplace procedures, work instructions, temporary instructions and relevant industry and government codes and standards.

Health, Safety and Environment (HSE)

All operations are subject to stringent health, safety and environment requirements, which may be imposed through State or federal legislation, and these must not be compromised at any time. Where there is an apparent conflict between Performance Criteria and HSE requirements, the scheduler needs to ensure the HSE requirements take precedence.

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