Career Area:
Manufacturing
Job Description:
**Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. **
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**Job Title: **Production Scheduler
Salary: £41,500 –£55,000 depending on skills demonstrated
Contract: Full time & permanent
Location: Desford, Leicestershire
The Opportunity
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 Original Equipment Manufacturer (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.
As a Production Scheduler**, **you are accountable for, but not limited to:
- 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.
**NB. The panel cannot make assumptions when shortlisting therefore please demonstrate your qualifications and experience on your CV relevant to the criteria outlined. **
What You Can Demonstrate:
Level: Basic Understanding
- **Production Scheduling and Control: **Drive production schedules effectively, ensuring plans are realistic, responsive to change, and aligned to delivery commitments.
- Problem Solving: Apply structured problem-solving techniques to identify root causes, resolve issues quickly, and minimise disruption to operations.
- Forecasting: Translate customer demand into production plans, balancing capacity, inventory, and lead times to maintain consistent supply performance.
- **Effective Communication: **Communicate clearly and proactively, ensuring teams are aligned on priorities, risks, and actions to enable smooth, coordinated execution.
What You May Have:
- 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.
- 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.
Pending the number of applications, the criteria for the position may be enhanced to facilitate shortlisting.
Just a quick heads-up: We start reviewing applications as soon as they come in, so if you’re interested, don’t wait too long! We may close the advert early if we feel we’ve got a strong pool of potentially suitable applicants.
Don’t miss out, get your application in soon!
What You Will Get One Company, Limitless Opportunities
Caterpillar is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. We do business on every continent, principally operating through three primary segments – Construction Industries, Resource Industries, and Energy & Transportation – and providing financing and related services through our Financial Products segment.
Careers at Caterpillar are limitless, we have opportunities in Engineering, Human Resources, Manufacturing, Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain and so much more. You can create the career you want. It’s your time and talent, make it count.
Our Sustainability Commitment
Caterpillar has a long-standing commitment to sustainability, one of our five Values in Action. It is part of who we are and what we do. We actively lead sustainable green initiatives to preserve the environment, help reduce poverty with the Caterpillar Foundation and stay involved in the communities we help build.
Benefits: 27 days annual leave + bank holidays, opportunity to buy additional holiday, 10%** Bonus**, contributory pension scheme - Caterpillar will double the employee's contribution up to 10%, contributory share scheme - Caterpillar will **match 50% **of the employee's 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
This position requires working onsite five days a week.
Posting Dates:
May 7, 2026 - May 22, 2026
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply
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