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Clerical support workers · code 4322

Production clerks

Production clerks compute quantities of materials required at specified dates for manufacturing, construction and similar production programmes, and prepare and check production operation schedules. Tasks include - (a) computing quantities, qualities and types of materials required by production programmes; (b) preparing production requirements schedules, ensuring that materials are available when needed, and keeping relevant records; (c) preparing or assisting in the preparation of production operation schedules on the basis of customers’ orders and production capacity and performance; (d) verifying stocks, arranging deliveries and investigating delays; (e) recording and coordinating the flow of work and materials between departments. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Production clerk - Schedule clerk (materials)

A good share of the tasks are affected. It ranks 348 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • machinery assembly coordinator

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

56.4
Holds up
against AI Exposed: Gradient 2

AI could take on 43.6 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 43.6 = 56.4

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

26
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, matched to one US job

17.7
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 26.9 · hand skill 23.1 · cramped spaces 3 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 26 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 53.5, while the average is 43.6. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 53.5

    Preparing or assisting in the preparation of production operation schedules on the basis of customers' orders and production capacity and performance

    Medium
  2. 46.3

    Preparing production requirements schedules, ensuring that materials are available when needed, and keeping relevant records

    Low
  3. 40

    Verifying stocks, arranging deliveries and investigating delays

    Low
  4. 39.5

    Recording and coordinating the flow of work and materials between departments.

    Low
  5. 38.5

    Computing quantities, qualities and types of materials required by production programme

    Low

5 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

2 Australian jobs match this one, and we've simply averaged them. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.

AI helps you
69
AI does it for you
45.5

Helping wins by 23.5 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 3129, 5911

Compared with similar jobs

There are 29 jobs in the “Clerical support workers” group, averaging 46.2. This one is above that.