Production Coordinator (Logistics)
A Production Coordinator (Logistics) manages the flow of goods, materials, and information through a manufacturing or distribution facility to ensure timely and accurate order fulfilment.
What this job is
A Production Coordinator (Logistics) manages the flow of goods, materials, and information through a manufacturing or distribution facility to ensure timely and accurate order fulfilment. They liaise between production, warehouse, transport, and customer teams to schedule shipments, track inventory movements, and resolve supply chain bottlenecks. The role requires coordination of multiple logistics processes simultaneously whilst maintaining compliance with workplace health and safety standards and company delivery targets.
Are employers advertising this role?
Steady, down 1.8% over 5 years
Counted across a group of similar roles. These are three-month rolling averages of online job advertisements, not filled positions.
Source: Jobs and Skills Australia, Internet Vacancy Index.
Day-to-day
Schedule production runs and dispatch orders using warehouse management systems (WMS) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. Track shipment status and update customers and internal stakeholders on delivery timelines via logistics tracking platforms. Reconcile inventory discrepancies between physical stock and WMS records, investigating variances and raising audit reports. Coordinate with transport providers to arrange vehicle collection times, route planning, and compliance with dangerous goods regulations where applicable. Liaise with production supervisors to prioritise order sequence based on delivery deadlines, material availability, and vehicle loading capacity. Prepare and verify shipping documentation including bills of lading, packing slips, customs declarations, and regulatory compliance certificates. Monitor warehouse loading operations to ensure orders are picked, packed, and palletised correctly against picking lists and quality standards. Process and action customer inquiries regarding order status, returns, and special delivery requirements within agreed timeframes.
Who does this now
About 1,800 people worked in this occupation across Australia at the 2021 Census.
Is it steady
Route optimisation and load planning are partly automated. Driver liaison, compliance and incident management tend to stay human-led.
What this role asks for
Certificate II or III (ABS skill level 4)
Can employers fill these jobs
Employers hiring for this occupation were generally able to find suitable applicants in 2025. This measures how hard employers found it to fill jobs. It is not a count of jobs, and it does not say whether the occupation is growing.
Requirements
The standard entry pathway requires a Certificate II or III (ABS skill level 4). Specific qualification requirements vary by employer and state. Some employers may accept equivalent experience. Check yourcareer.gov.au for available courses and dewr.gov.au/skills-reform/free-tafe for subsidised training options.
The honest hard part
The role is detail-heavy and repetitive: reconciling inventory, chasing missing shipments, and fielding complaints when deliveries go wrong. Automation is steadily replacing basic coordination tasks, so you need to stay current with WMS software or risk becoming redundant.
Where the jobs are
Work is almost entirely on-site in warehouses and logistics parks, not remote. Regional areas have fewer roles.
Pay
Published for ANZSCO unit group 5911, the wider group this job sits in, not for this job on its own.
This is the median for full-time employees who are not managers and are paid at the adult rate, before tax and salary sacrifice. It is a guide to what the work pays, not a wage rate.
Source: ABS Survey of Employee Earnings and Hours, May 2025, customised report.
Skills
- Attention to Detailcore
- Customer Order Trackingcore
- Delivery Schedulingcore
- Dispatch Documentationcore
- ERP and Inventory Systemscore
- Freight Coordinationcore
- Inventory Trackingcore
- Problem Solvingcore
- Purchase Order Processingcore
- Stakeholder Communicationcore
- Supplier Communicationcore
- Time Management and Prioritisationcore
- Verbal Communicationcore
- Workflow Prioritisationcore
- Written Communicationcore
- Advise on machinery malfunctions
- Check for damaged items
- Check material resources
- Driver and Courier Liaison
- Goods Receipt Processing
- Microsoft Office Suite Proficiency
- Negotiation
- Process Documentation
- Process Improvement Identification
- Report Writing
- Risk Identification
- SLA and KPI Adherence
- Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
Which of these do you have?
Tick the ones you haveCommon questions
Sources
- ABS OSCA 2024, occupation definition and task statements
- ABS Survey of Employee Earnings and Hours, May 2025, customised report.
- ABS, 2021 Census of Population and Housing based on usual place of residence (Custom Report). OSCA Experimental Estimates.
Role data is drawn from official Australian Government sources, and each figure names where it comes from. Where a role is not in the ABS classification, the page shows no government figures for it. Data may not reflect every local variation.
What Production Coordinator (Logistics) workers move into, from ten years of tax records.
Last updated: 30 October 2026
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