Production Scheduler

Brook Street; Llantrisant; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite parking

Job summary

Brook Street in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Production Scheduler to own the production plan, balancing customer demand with factory capacity, labour, and materials. This role emphasizes on-time, in-full delivery and close teamwork with Operations, Purchasing, Sales, Customer Service and Logistics.

You will work Monday to Friday with onsite parking and an early afternoon finish, ensuring smooth production flow and continuous improvement in a growing manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in production planning, scheduling, or production control.
• Strong understanding of capacity planning and materials management.
• Highly organised with excellent attention to detail.
• Strong communication across office and shop-floor teams.
• Adaptable to changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain short, medium, and long-term production schedules.
• Coordinate workloads across multiple manufacturing departments and work centres.
• Ensure production plans align with material availability, labour resources, and capacity.
• Manage changes to schedules due to shortages, breakdowns, urgent orders, or shifting customer requirements.
• Maintain accurate planning data within Business Central and associated scheduling systems.
• Liaise with internal teams to ensure smooth production flow and on-time delivery.
• Monitor performance, identify bottlenecks, and recommend improvement actions.
• Produce factory efficiency reports covering output, utilisation, downtime, lead times, and delivery performance.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives to increase productivity and reduce delays.

Skills

Production planning

Scheduling

Capacity planning

Materials management

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Tools

Visual Production Scheduler

Business Central

Excel

Job description

Production Scheduler

Join a growing UK manufacturer serving the food, construction, life sciences, and temperature-controlled sectors. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Production Scheduler to play a pivotal role in coordinating production activities, improving factory performance, and ensuring customers receive their orders on time and in full. This role offers onsite parking, hours of work Monday to Friday, early afternoon finish daily, no weekend or evening work!

The Role

As Production Scheduler, you'll take ownership of the production plan, balancing customer demand with factory capacity, labour, materials, and resources. Working closely with Operations, Purchasing, Sales, Customer Service, and Logistics, you'll ensure production schedules are realistic, achievable, and aligned with business priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• Create and maintain short, medium, and long-term production schedules.
• Coordinate workloads across multiple manufacturing departments and work centres.
• Ensure production plans align with material availability, labour resources, and capacity.
• Manage changes to schedules due to shortages, breakdowns, urgent orders, or shifting customer requirements.
• Maintain accurate planning data within Business Central and associated scheduling systems.
• Liaise with internal teams to ensure smooth production flow and on-time delivery.
• Monitor performance, identify bottlenecks, and recommend improvement actions.
• Produce factory efficiency reports covering output, utilisation, downtime, lead times, and delivery performance.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives to increase productivity and reduce delays.

About You

• Proven experience in production planning, scheduling, or production control within a manufacturing environment.
• Strong understanding of capacity planning, materials management, and manufacturing operations.
• Highly organised with excellent attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively across office and shop-floor teams.
• Comfortable managing changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Desirable

• Experience with Visual Production Scheduler or similar planning software.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Advanced Excel and data analysis skills.
• Experience within engineered products, modular manufacturing, construction products, doors, panels, refrigeration, or related sectors.