Production Scheduler

With a focus on operational technology and digital transformation, Capula, part of the Dalkia Group, has been a leader in advanced system integration for decades; optimising efficiency & delivering performance on a massive scale. But with continuous innovation at the heart of our business, we’ve always got our sights set on the future. We work in some of the most highly regulated and challenging industrial environments, and have delivered critical projects across energy, water, renewables and manufacturing.

**Summary of Role**:
We have an exciting opportunity for a Production Scheduler to join our Production team which manufactures, tests and delivers high-quality, control panel solutions for national infrastructure projects in accordance with a range of standards and regulations.

The role of the Production Scheduler is key to ensuring the project manufacturing and test requirement miles stones are identified and planned, to ensure the designs, materials, resource and production space are available to ensure timely delivery to our customers.

The post holder will be required to take a hands-on approach, liaising across several departments building excellent working relationships to ensure tasks are programmed, co-ordinated and completed on time.

**The role holder will **
- Collaborate closely with our different business areas to ensure seamless planning coordination in order to achieve the required delivery targets
- Regularly update the production schedule for all projects to ensure availability of resource and production capacity
- Maintain the electronic production status page which tracks the projects through production giving visibility of project progress to the wider business
- Conduct regular meetings both face-to-face and via video conferencing platforms
- Ensure design timescales are understood and incorporated into the production plan
- Ensure material delivery timescales are understood and incorporated into the production plan
- Conduct weekly meetings with project managers to review progress or the design, documents being issued, and assess required availability of parts delivery
- Conduct weekly meetings across support teams to gather status information, collate data and provide production management with progress updates
- Work with the Stores team to monitor and maintain consignment stock levels in line with production demand.
- Compile and record necessary data used to produce Management monthly reports
- Archive project build data to facilitate learning from experience

**Skills and Experience Required**
- Possess strong communication, interpersonal and negotiating skills
- Have the ability to develop and nurture working relationships
- Be proficient in Microsoft Office in particular being able to use Excel to an advanced level employing conditional formatting, VLOOKUP, IF statements, pivot tables and more
- Be both proactive and reactive in their approach to the role to ensure all planning, scheduling and reactivity to issues are well-managed
- Be a strong problem-solver
- Possess a flexible approach able to adapt to changing requirements at short notice.
- Have excellent oral and written communication skills. Always ensuring clear and concise communications with colleagues and stakeholders. and able to form and articulate ideas
- Have a positive and proactive attitude, demonstrating a willingness to take on challenges, find solutions and cooperate with the ideas and solutions of others
- Can remain calm under pressure
- Maintain a professional, accountable, proactive, and helpful attitude always
- Maintain the ability and maturity to give and receive feedback constructively and negotiate with colleagues harmoniously
- Scheduling: 1 year (required)
- Production Planning: 1 year (preferred)

**In return Capula offers the following benefits to permanent employees**
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Predominantly office based but with some scope for flexible working
- Pension
- Life assurance policy
- Private health care
- Lifestyle screening
- Salary sacrifice programme
- Mental health assistance programme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Green car scheme
- Support in achieving professional status and professional memberships fees covered

**NOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES**: WE ARE CURRENTLY WORKING WITH ONLY OUR PREFERRED SUPPLIERS.