Planning & Scheduling Lead

**Job details**:
**Date posted**

22/05/2025

**Application closing date**

30/06/2025

**Location**

Scunthorpe

**Salary**

**Package**

**Contractual hours**

36.5

**Basis**

Full time

**Job description**

**R**ole** -**Planning & Scheduling Lead**

**Salary**:

- Up to £45,000
**Location** -**Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, DN16 1XA

**Pattern of Work** -**36.5 Monday - Friday days

**Package** -** Company Car plus benefits

**What you need to know about the role**
- Our Raw Materials Procurement team ensures the seamless delivery of bulk raw materials—such as iron ore and carbon fuels—into Immingham Bulk Terminal (IBT). By maintaining an efficient supply chain, we enable business operations to function at optimal cost while ensuring security, flexibility, and reliability.
- As **Planning & Scheduling Lead**, you will play a crucial role in coordinating the timely arrival of raw materials at IBT. Your objective will be to maintain the lowest stock levels while minimizing demurrage costs, ensuring operations run smoothly.

**Key Responsibilities**
- In your role as Planning & Scheduling Lead you will;
- Procure raw materials, negotiating and confirming laycans with suppliers, and securing improvements where possible.
- Manage forward planning, reviewing vessel schedules and laycans to optimize supply chain efficiency.
- Lead weekly laycan control meetings, ensuring alignment across all stakeholders.
- Assess vessel nominations, working closely with IBT and suppliers for approval.
- Enhance visibility of key supply chain data to support stock and demurrage targets.
- Review freight invoices and laytime calculations received from owners and shippers.
- Oversee customs clearance, ensuring compliance with regulations.
- React proactively to supply chain disruptions, identifying solutions to minimize impact.
- Success in this role depends on strong collaboration and relationship-building. You will work closely with suppliers, the Inbound Shipping Manager, Senior Category Managers, IBT Manager, and other stakeholders to maintain a cost-effective, uninterrupted flow of raw materials for British Steel.

**What we need to know about you**
We’re looking for an experienced professional in logistics and/or supply chain management, ideally from the dry bulk shipping industry or with a raw materials background.
- To thrive in this role, you should:

- Be confident, proactive, and solutions-oriented, comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
- Have strong negotiation and organizational skills to drive efficient procurement and scheduling.
- Possess the ability to influence senior stakeholders, balancing commercial priorities with operational needs.
- Communicate clearly and effectively across all levels of the organisation.
- Dry bulk shipping experience are advantageous but not essential.
- This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys the challenge of managing complex supply chains and driving continuous improvement in procurement operations.

**What we can offer you**
We know our employees are our greatest asset and alongside the great benefits packages we offer, we continue to invest in their careers by providing a huge range of training and development opportunities.

Whatever your stage in life, you'll find a range of benefits to complement your work-life balance. The benefits you'll enjoy include:

- Defined contribution company pension scheme
- 27 personal annual leave days + statutory bank holidays
- Life Assurance
- A comprehensive Company sick pay scheme
- Health Cash Plan via our partnership with Simply health
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Standby and call-out payments
- Family friendly benefits including enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.

**What you need to know about us**
- British Steel is a leading European steel manufacturer, supplying premium long products around the world.
- We take great pride in our history and heritage. Not many companies can claim to have generations of families dedicating their working lives to one company, one industry. Steel gets into your blood, and this drives the passion of our people. And these 2 values deliver our third value of performance - making the products our customers want now and in the future.

**British Steel has a bright future and we want you to be part of it.**

**How to apply