Production Scheduler

Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom

6/24/2025

• Company: Bellway Homes
• Salary: Competitive
• Type: Full Time
• Region: UK - East Midlands
• Town/City: Nottinghamshire
• Posted: 20/06/2025
• Listed in: Administration & Secretarial
• Reference: 281516CON
  
  

Job Description

Bellway is a FTSE 250 five-star house builder, which operates 22 trading divisions across England, Scotland and Wales. The company has grown from a family firm, established more than 75 years ago, into a respected national brand, selling over ten thousand homes a year.

As the next step of long term growth and to support our sustainability priorities, Bellway shall be opening a new, highly automated, Timber Frame Manufacturing facility located in Sutton in Ashfield.

This new Division, Bellway Home Space, shall become operational later this year and there is an exciting opportunity to join the initial team at our new state of the art facility. We are currently looking to recruit a Production Scheduler to join the team.

At Bellway we recognise that people are the key to our success and our goal is to provide a rewarding and fulfilling career in line with our values of quality, service and trust.

In addition to this we are committed to being a more inclusive employer and invite applications from a variety of backgrounds.

The Role

The role of Production Scheduler is to undertake responsibility for production planning and factory loading activities, to ensure customer demand is converted into a production schedule that is optimised for the requirements of the factory and to manage the multi-wall packing sequence to maximise outbound logistics efficiency.

Principle Accountabilities Of The Role Include

Production Planning

To manage the download of customer demand into the production plan and MRP system.

To liaise with Bellway Divisions to ensure the accuracy and requirements of customer demand.

To manage the conversion of customer demand into an optimised production plan that is constantly available through weekly planning reviews with technical and manufacturing departments.

To maintain and produce an accurate assembly plan for Logistics Team, outbound logistics organisations and site requirements.

To ensure the accuracy of plan data for material forecast, inventory and outstanding purchase orders.

To produce accurate manufacturing and logistics forecast data to meet business requirements.

Pack Sequencing & Order Processing

To supervise the creation of packing sequencing and detailing of accurate assembly material information for despatch purposes.

To supervise the generation and loading of production orders onto the factory systems in accordance with the manufacturing plans.

Environmental, Health and Safety

To carry out work safely and in the interests of all employees in accordance with the EHS procedures manual and summarised in the EHS responsibilities matrix.

Measurables

Accuracy and availability of optimum production plan to agreed readiness of customer call off.

Availability of sufficient volume of housing on factory server for manufacturing.

Accuracy and availability of packing sequence documentation to agreed quality level.

Qualifications, Knowledge & Experience

Qualified to a minimum ‘A’ Level or HNC/HND.

Highly analytical and comfortable with a range of information technology and data transfer systems.

Organised and able to manage multiple tasks and priorities.

Working knowledge of MRP systems (ideally mid range software systems).

Proven communication skills.

Experience of continuous improvement within lean manufacturing.

Methodical and able to demonstrate a calm managerial approach to planning.

Skills & Aptitude

Excellent administration and organisation skills

Analysis, numerical and report writing skills

Strong people management and time management

Strong communication, listening and problem solving

Ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines

Excellent attention to detail

Ability to work on own as well as part of a team

Proficient IT skills along with a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and outlook) and the ability to adapt to and develop new systems.

Committed to diversity and inclusion

The Role and Working Conditions

Willing to be flexible in respect to day-to-day duties and hours worked.

Office based role with some travel within the Group Divisions.

In Return We Can Offer You

Competitive salary

Competitive annual bonus

Contributory pension scheme

25 days holiday, plus bank holidays

Access to discounts and benefits portal

ShareSave Scheme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Life assurance

We reserve the right to close this vacancy if a large volume of applications are received.

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