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O*NET detailed work activitySchedule operational activities
AI-readyPlan & schedule
20 jobs26 tasks
Describe the goal, the people and the constraints, and AI drafts the plan, schedule or checklist. You adjust it to what you know about real life on the ground.
Part of Schedule operational activities, under the O*NET work activity group Scheduling Work and Activities. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (20 AI-ready, 3 AI-assist, 3 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Schedule or dispatch workers, work crews, equipment, or service vehicles to appropriate locations, according to customer requests, specifications, or needs, using radios or telephones.
- Arrange to pick up particular customers or groups on a regular schedule.
- Manage and maintain executives' schedules.
- Revise production schedules when required due to design changes, labor or material shortages, backlogs, or other interruptions, collaborating with management, marketing, sales, production, or engineering.
- Prepare agendas and make arrangements, such as coordinating catering for luncheons, for committee, board, and other meetings.
- Schedule times of shipment and modes of transportation for materials.
- Review work plans to schedule activities.
- Prepare equipment inspection schedules, reliability schedules, work plans, or other records.
- Schedule movement of recycling materials into and out of storage areas.
- Coordinate recycling collection schedules to optimize service and efficiency.
- Schedule space or equipment for special programs and prepare lists of participants.
- Regulate and alter workflow schedules according to established manufacturing sequences and lead times to expedite production operations.
- Schedule machine overhauls and the servicing of electrical, heating, ventilation, refrigeration, water, and sewage systems.
- Organize schedules for refuse collection.
- Schedule deliveries based on production forecasts, material substitutions, storage and handling facilities, and maintenance requirements.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Plan work schedules and assign duties to maintain adequate staff for effective performance of activities and response to fluctuating workloads.
- Arrange for commercial taping sessions, and accompany clients to sessions.
- Prepare project budgets, schedules, or specifications for labor or materials.
- Prepare schedules, reports, and estimates of the costs involved in developing and operating mines.
- Plan or schedule engineering research or development projects involving microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology.
- Prepare, review, or maintain maintenance schedules, design documentation, or operational reports or charts.
- Schedule programming or read television programming logs to determine which programs are to be recorded or aired.
- Prepare plans, estimates, design and construction schedules, and contract specifications, including any special provisions.
- Schedule and coordinate transfer and delivery of security certificates between companies, departments, and customers.
- Arrange conference, meeting, or travel reservations for office personnel.
- Supervise and train other clerical staff and arrange for employee training by scheduling training or organizing training material.