Shop Floor Scheduler

Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities. GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16,000 employees across 32 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.6bn in 2025. There are no limits to where you can take your career. Job Summary Translate the Master Production Schedule into a feasible, sequenced, and controlled shop-floor execution plan for assigned value streams, products, and production lines. Balance customer need dates, production priorities, capacity, labor, materials, tooling, fixtures, maintenance, quality constraints, and work-in-process to protect product safety, configuration integrity, on-time delivery, and efficient resource utilization. Provide timely, fact-based visibility of schedule risk and coordinate recovery actions across operations, planning, procurement, quality, engineering, maintenance, logistics, and program teams. Job Responsibilities 1. Production Sequencing and MPS Execution Sequence and release work orders in line with the approved MPS, customer need dates, program priorities, and the physical and staffing constraints of assigned production lines. Maintain a rolling, time-phased shop-floor schedule that is feasible, balanced, visually communicated, and understood by Team Leaders and value-stream stakeholders. Incorporate known downtime, holidays, preventive maintenance, line closures, calibration, qualification, inspection, tooling, fixture, packaging, staffing, and material constraints into shop floor schedule. Coordinate changes in sequence or priority through established planning and change-control processes; communicate the operational and customer impact of changes. 2. Constraint, Capacity and Readiness Management Confirm that scheduled work is supportable by available raw material, components, tooling, fixtures, equipment, approved process capability, trained labor, documentation, and quality resources. Maximize use of shared and constraint resources while maintaining coherence with MPS product mix, required availability dates, batch rules, changeovers, and controlled-process requirements. Identify capacity overloads, bottlenecks, shortages, competing priorities, or readiness gaps and develop data-supported scenarios for escalation and decision. Coordinate with Procurement, Material Control, Engineering, Quality, Maintenance, and Operations to address conditions that could create supply failure or customer disruption. 3. Daily Performance Control and Recovery Monitor actual manufacturing output and performance against the schedule each day; investigate deviations from standard and update the execution plan using approved priorities. Track schedule adherence, past-due operations, WIP aging, queue time, yield/rework impact, downtime, run dates, batch quantities, and changeover performance. Lead or support recovery planning for missed milestones, material shortages, quality holds, equipment downtime, resource conflicts, rework loops, and urgent customer requirements. Provide daily and weekly reporting that distinguishes symptoms from verified causes and assigns clear actions, owners, and escalation dates. (Cont...) 4. Inventory, WIP and Material Flow Monitor stock cover and material availability to prevent shortages while avoiding unnecessary overproduction, excess WIP, aging inventory, or premature starts. Adjust sequencing within approved authority when conditions change; escalate decisions that could affect the MPS, customer commitments, inventory policy, contractual priorities, or f…

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