OES Code: 580080

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY

JOB KEY FOR PRODUCTION, PLANNING, & EXPEDITING CLERKS

The duties of Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks are primarily clerical in nature and involve coordinating and expediting the flow of work and materials within or between departments of an establishment according to production schedules. This includes reviewing and distributing production schedules and work orders, conferring with department supervisors to determine progress of work and completion dates, and compiling reports on progress of work and production problems. Their duties may also include scheduling workers and estimating costs, routing and delivering parts to insure production quotas are met, and scheduling shipment of parts. They may keep inventory of material in departments and insure that merchandise is shipped by vendor on the promised date, and write special orders for services and merchandise.

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PROJECTED ESTIMATES OF EMPLOYMENT (excluding self-employed)

Number Working in this Occupation --- Year --- 1995 2002		Percent Change	Increase/ Decrease	Additional Openings Due to People Chang- ing Occupations or Retiring	Sum of Increase/Decrease and Additional Openings
350	440	26%	90	50	140

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HOW TO FIND BUSINESSES MOST LIKELY TO HIRE PRODUCTION, PLANNING, & EXPEDITING CLERKS IN CONTRA COSTA COUNTY

The following are the types of firms that employ the most workers in this occupation within this county. They are listed in order from largest to smallest.

Industry Code (SIC)	Industry Title
3312	Blast furnaces & steel mills
7363	Temporary help agencies
2911	Petroleum refiners
7375	Information retrieval services
5999	Miscellaneous retail stores, all other
2791	Typesetting firms
4311	U. S. Postal Service
3479	Metal coating & services firms, all other
4813	Telephone communications, exc radio-telephone
5311	Department stores
7311	Advertising agencies
2711	Newspaper publishers
2752	Commercial printers, lithographic
8742	Management consulting services
1311	Crude petroleum & natural gas extraction
3571	Electronic computer manufacturers
3812	Search & navigation equipment manufacturers
4841	Cable & other pay television services
7389	Business services, all other
8732	Commercial economic & sociologic research
9010	Federal government
1541	General contractors--industrial buildings/warehouses
3699	Electrical equipment & supplies manufacturers, all other
3823	Process control manufacturers
7371	Computer programming services
2621	Paper mills
3711	Motor vehicle & car body manufacturers
3743	Railroad equipment manufacturers
4812	Radiotelephone communications
5065	Electronic parts/equipment, all other, wholesale
7372	Prepackaged software
7379	Computer related services, all other

Look in the yellow pages of the phone book under the above or similar industry titles, or look in employer directories in libraries. Directories such as Business Prospector, California Services Register and those by chambers of commerce often list firms by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code.

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