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Build the shutdown schedule and material readiness report

You are the Production Planner in the Engineering Office.

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The situation

What has happened

The Mount Errol Quarries seventy-two hour shutdown starts at 6:00 am on 13 October 2026 and the plant must be handed back by 6:00 am on 16 October. The approved shutdown plan gives the scope, crews and sequence but not a shift-by-shift schedule. Materials are arriving against the delivery schedule: the bearings and chute liners are in, the jaw liner certificate is still requested, and the mobile welding unit is under repair after a yard incident. Jodie Ferrante needs a detailed schedule loaded against job card JC-26-0420, a material and equipment readiness check and a one-page risk summary for the General Manager so problems are fixed before mobilisation.

Your brief. Build a shift-by-shift schedule for the shutdown from the plan, check material, certificate and equipment readiness in the registers, estimate labour hours by crew against the quoted hours, and write a one-page risk summary with actions to protect the handover time.
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Tasks

Deliverables

  • Shift-by-shift shutdown schedule with critical path
  • Labour hours estimate compared with the quoted hours
  • Material and equipment readiness report
  • One-page risk summary with actions
  • Updated job card JC-26-0420

Documents to use

Systems to use

Job Card Register

Tracks every fabrication, machining and maintenance job from quote to close-out with customer, drawing, hours and status.

Materials and Certificate Register

Records receipts of steel, consumables and spares with purchase order, heat number, certificate reference and the job each item was issued to.

Plant and Equipment Register

Lists workshop machines, cranes, welding sets, measuring equipment and site tools with inspection, calibration and service status.

Training and Competency Matrix

Holds each worker's licences, welder qualifications, inductions and training with expiry dates so supervisors can allocate work to people who are current.

For trainers and assessors

Units of competency

Current on training.gov.au for the Manufacturing and Engineering as at 10 September 2026.

MEM14003Undertake production scheduling
MEM14006Plan work activities
MEM14001Schedule material deliveries
MEM22015Source and estimate engineering materials requirements
MEM30021Prepare a simple production schedule
MEM16010Write reports

Qualifications

MEM50722Diploma of Engineering - Planning
MEM40119Certificate IV in Engineering
Assessor notes

What to look for

Evidence guide

The schedule must respect the sequence and the day-shift-only constraint on the walkway hot work, show a credible critical path and stay within the fatigue limits in the fitness for work policy. The readiness report should catch the jaw liner certificate, the quarantined angle, the welding unit repair, the alignment kit calibration and the expiring induction. The risk summary should be one page, specific and actionable.

The student's evidence summary lists every record they created or changed in the systems named above, their notes and the tasks they ticked. Verify it against the deliverables and your own assessment tool.