Shop Floor Scheduler

GKN; England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace company in East Cowes seeks an experienced Shop Floor Scheduler. The role involves overseeing scheduling activities, monitoring manufacturing performance, and ensuring effective resource management. Candidates should demonstrate proficiency in Daily Scheduling, strong Excel skills, and a background in manufacturing. This is a full-time position with significant opportunities for growth and development within a diverse and inclusive environment, committed to excellence in aerospace innovation.

Qualifications

• Experience in Daily Scheduling & Completion Forecasting.
• Proficiency in Demand Planning SIOP / MPS / MRP.
• Experience in Inventory Management and Internal Flow.

Responsibilities

• Monitor daily manufacturing output performance against schedule.
• Ensure stock cover to avoid stock outs and overstocks.
• Communicate production execution issues to Master Scheduler.

Skills

Good standard of secondary education

Similar experience in a manufacturing environment

Strong Excel skills

Education

GCSE (or equivalent) grade C/level 4 or above in Maths

Job description

Job Summary

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: FRIDAY 31ST OCTOBER 2025

An excellent opportunity has arisen in our thriving East Cowes facilities for an experienced Shop Floor Scheduler.

Reporting into one of our Operations Group Leaders you’ll join the supply chain team overseeing the scheduling activities across the production area. This includes the management of visual systems to communicate/monitor the sequence of production orders ensuring the availability of resources (tooling raw material etc.) creating and maintaining the optimal production sequence.

Job Responsibilities

• Monitoring the manufacturing output/performance daily against the schedule; challenging and understanding whenever performance differs from standard.
• Monitoring Stock cover daily in order to avoid Stock outs as well as overstocks by adjusting the performance sequence if possible or raising the issue with the Master Scheduler.
• Maximising shared manufacturing resource output/utilisation while ensuring full coherence with MPS product mix volumes and required availability dates.
• Proactively communicate/escalate to the Master Scheduler / Area management any potential production execution issues/constraints to trigger preventive actions against potential supply failure.
• Weekly track challenge and report Schedule Adherence with reasons for nonconformity to Production Area Management and Master Schedule.

Job Qualifications

Suitable candidates will be able to demonstrate:

Essential:

• Good standard of secondary education to include GCSE (or equivalent) grade C/level 4 or above in Maths.
• Similar experience gained in a manufacturing environment including proficiency in Daily Scheduling & Completion Forecasting & Demand Planning SIOP / MPS / MRP Master Data Management Inventory Management Internal Flow & Warehousing etc.
• Strong Excel skills.

Desirable:

• Material Requirement Planning knowledge within an ERP based business.
• Experience within the Aerospace industry.
• Understanding of Health and safety quality traceability and lean principles within a production environment.
• Advanced Excel skills.

Well offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of an organisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and is committed to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry who knows how far you can go.

A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working

Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through a coming together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. Through our commitment to diversity inclusion and belonging and by living our five powerful principles we’ve created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. Its a culture that won us The Best Workplace Culture Award. By embracing and celebrating what makes us unique we encourage everyone to bring their full self to work.

We’re also committed to providing an accessible recruitment process so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know.

We arethe place where human dreams plus humanendeavour shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.

Key Skills

• Employee Orientation
• Operational Risk Management
• Primavera
• Computer Skills
• Primavera P6
• Medical office experience
• Medical Terminology
• Schedule Management
• Production Planning
• Microsoft Project
• Medical Scheduling
• Phone Etiquette

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1