Scheduler (6 month FTC)

Arcus FM Limited; Redditch; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4% bonus

25 days annual leave

Pension scheme

Life Assurance

Training sponsorship

Discounts & vouchers

Job summary

Arcus FM Limited in Redditch is seeking an experienced Workforce Scheduling Controller for a 6-month FTC. You will join our Central Operations Planning team to schedule engineers across multiple clients, ensuring workloads align with agreed SLAs and KPIs.

The role is 40 hours per week, 7am–7pm across seven days. You must be proactive, resilient, and able to balance urgent deployments with planning efficiency, while maintaining excellent customer service.

Qualifications

• Experience in scheduling engineers to meet SLAs and KPIs.
• Strong administrative and time-management skills.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience in facilities management is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Schedule engineers to meet client SLAs and KPIs.
• Coordinate between field engineers and client premises to allocate skilled engineers.
• Prioritize jobs based on location, skill requirements, and urgency.
• Handle urgent deployments and high-pressure scheduling with a customer-focused approach.

Skills

Scheduling knowledge

Administrative skills

Time management

Stakeholder communication

Process improvement

Tools

Scheduling software

Job description

Why Join Us

Are you looking for an employer who is big on career development?

Do you enjoy communicating with various stakeholders?

Do you thrive on delivering on set SLAs/KPIs?

Do you want to provide the best customer service?

If yes, then read on ...

We are now seeking an experienced Workforce Scheduling Controller, to join us on a 6 month FTC at our Redditch office.

What You'll Be Doing

Your new role will be within our Central Operations Planning team, where you’ll be covering a multitude of clients. You’ll receive work orders via various systems, you’ll manage and schedule engineers through our scheduling system in accordance with the agreed set SLAs and KPIs. You’ll be liaising between our field-based engineers and client premises ensuring you allocate the correct skilled engineer to attend to the job, considering the store requirements, engineers’ location, and priority of the job through to availability.

You’ll be a proactive and solution-focused individual, as you’ll be handling various requirements which could be anything from dealing with a power cut which requires an engineer within 2 hours, to reactive maintenance work where you’ll need to schedule an engineer within 720 hours or legislative work against critical KPI’s

You’ll already be used to working against set SLAs and KPIs, therefore, it is essential you are SLA/KPI driven with a passion to deliver and succeed. You’ll be resilient, tenacious, and confident when dealing with Engineers, you’ll be able to manage challenge and persuade with ease ensuring you are achieving the best solution for the customer.

What We're Looking For

Our ideal candidate would have extensive knowledge of scheduling and be able to work on their own initiative. You’d have excellent administrative and time management skills, gained within a fast-paced time-pressured environment with the ability to adapt to change quickly. You’d be an advocate for continuous improvement, looking for ways to simplify and improve processes/results to ensure the customer receives the best resolution.

Your key stakeholders will be all Field Operational Managers, Engineers, various clients, and Helpdesk colleagues. Your new team will consist of Schedulers, Senior Customer Support colleagues, Team Managers and Operations Managers.

This is a 40-hour per week working7am – 7pm across 7 days, as flexibility is required for this role.

For this role you could have this experience within any industry and sector but with an aptitude to learn quickly new processes within the Facilities Management world - What is key is that you are confident, have the experienceand are adaptable to all technology solutions

In return, we would offer you:

• Salary: £27,312 (pro rata) per annum
• 4% bonus, subject to achievement of targets
• 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays.
• Group personal pension scheme of matched contributions between 5% and 6%
• Life Assurance
• Funded Training Sponsorship Scheme
• Discounts, vouchers, and financial aid programs