Application

This unit of competency defines the skills and knowledge required to coordinate and facilitate significant manufacturing operations where the coordination role involves application of engineering skills and knowledge to ensure safe, effective and efficient manufacturing. Operations may include specific engineering-related tasks, such as installation and commissioning of plant, design of equipment and major overhauls.
Where coordination skills for time-defined engineering projects are required, unitMEM22013Coordinate engineering projects should be selected.
Where the planning, scheduling and purchasing is done in an engineering or manufacturing organisation following lean principles, appropriate competitive systems and practices units of competency should also be selected.
No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

What You'll Learn

Assessment Requirements

Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy the requirements of the elements and performance criteria and include:
• following work instructions, standard operating procedures (SOPs) and safe work practices
• identifying equipment and process capacity from information supplied by designers and suppliers
• preparing production or project plan on at least two occasions in consultation with relevant stakeholders to meet work health and safety (WHS), quality, demand and delivery requirements within capacity and budget constraints
• applying procedures to ensure compliance of manufacturing operations with WHS, environmental and other regulatory requirements
• reviewing and monitoring facilities and services on at least two occasions
• maintaining records, reporting and documenting in accordance with standard operating procedures.
Note: Where a volume and/or frequency is not specified, demonstration must be provided at least once.

Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate the required knowledge for this unit must be relevant to and satisfy the requirements of the elements and performance criteria and include knowledge of:
• safe work practices and procedures
• manufacturing management systems
• relevant stakeholders
• sources of professional and technical assistance
• forecasting, scheduling and production control procedures
• production systems, including assembly and process layouts, material and product flows, automation and control systems
• WHS requirements, codes of practice, regulations, standards, regulatory requirements, risk management, current safe work method statements (SWMS), safety data sheets (SDS) and work permits
• budgeting, costing and control measures
• quality and process control measures
• asset maintenance techniques and management options
• continuous improvement procedures
• problem-solving and decision-making, systems thinking, contingency and constraints management as applied to manufacturing
• requirements for and functions of technical documentation, records, graphics and specifications
• sustainability implications of manufacturing operations, products and processes, including social, environmental, resources and economic implications
• reporting and documenting procedures used in manufacturing, including role of standard operating procedures (SOPs), engineering drawings and process control charts
• current options and tends in software
• continuous improvement processes and procedures
• lean manufacturing principles
• typical constraints
• sustainability considerations.

Assessment Conditions

• Assessors must:
• have vocational competency in coordinating engineering-related manufacturing operations at least to the level being assessed with relevant industry knowledge and experience
• satisfy the assessor requirements in the Standards for Registered Training Organisations 2015 or its replacement and comply with the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011, its replacement or equivalent legislation covering VET regulation in a non-referring state/territory as the case requires.
• Where possible, assessment must occur in operational workplace situations. Where this is not possible or where personal safety or environmental damage are limiting factors, assessment must occur in a sufficiently rigorous simulated environment that reflects realistic operational workplace conditions that cover all aspects of workplace performance, including environment, task skills, task management skills, contingency management skills and job role environment skills.
• Conditions for assessment must include access to all tools, equipment, materials and documentation required including relevant workplace procedures, product and manufacturing specifications.
• Assessment processes and techniques must be appropriate to the language, literacy and numeracy requirements of the work being performed and the needs of the candidate.

Foundation Skills

• {'skill': 'Foundation Skills', 'description': 'This section describes those language, literacy, numeracy and employment skills that are essential to performance.\nFoundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.'}

Prerequisite Units

• MEM14091
• MEM16006
• MEM23004

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