Do you enjoy coordinating complex production activities and keeping operations running smoothly? As a Production Scheduler, you will play a key role in planning, coordinating, and controlling production schedules to ensure on-time delivery to our OEM customers globally. Acting as a central point of contact, you will collaborate closely with OEM customers and cross‑functional teams, including operations, planning, transport, and quality, to resolve scheduling challenges, optimise capacity and inventory, and drive continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
* Drive production schedules to achieve on-time delivery, proactively managing capacity, inventory, and logistics constraints.
* Act as the primary OEM contact, building strong relationships and ensuring effective, timely communication across the supply chain.
* Identify and resolve scheduling issues, using root‑cause analysis to improve efficiency and reduce disruption.
* Collaborate cross‑functionally to resolve product and process challenges and meet business and customer requirements.
* Coordinate production priorities, ensuring alignment across teams to support delivery, flow, and operational efficiency.
* Monitor performance metrics, including order status, inventory, and Customer Shipping Performance (CSP), using insights to drive continuous improvement.
* Deliver production schedules effectively, ensuring plans are realistic, responsive to change, and aligned to delivery commitments.
* Apply structured problem‑solving techniques to identify root causes, resolve issues quickly, and minimise disruption to operations.
* Translate customer demand into production plans, balancing capacity, inventory, and lead times to maintain consistent supply performance.
* Communicate clearly and proactively, ensuring teams are aligned on priorities, risks, and actions to enable smooth, coordinated execution.
Qualifications
* Accuracy and attention to detail – maintain high levels of accuracy and attention to detail, ensuring data and schedules are reliable, reducing errors and supporting effective decision‑making.
* Data gathering & analysis – gather and analyse data from multiple sources, turning insights into actions that improve scheduling efficiency and operational performance.
* Experience with planning systems – use planning systems and tools (e.g. MRP, SAP, Excel) to manage production plans, improve visibility, and drive better coordination across the supply chain.
Benefits
* 27 days annual leave + bank holidays, opportunity to buy additional holiday.
* 10% bonus.
* Contributory pension scheme – Caterpillar will double employee contribution up to 10%.
* Contributory share scheme – Caterpillar will match 50% of employee contribution.
* Employee Support Networks – join groups that offer support, connection, and a sense of community.
* Optional flexible benefits including access to private health and dental care plans, EV car lease, etc.
* Travel: up to 5% travel to include Global.
* Position requires working onsite five days a week.
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