Production Scheduler

About the Role

We’re looking for a proactive and detail-driven Production Scheduler to join our team at our Featherstone site. In this vital role, you’ll help deliver exceptional service in a fast-paced environment, ensuring our customers receive the quality and reliability they expect from DS Smith. The production function is at the heart of our site’s success, and your expertise will play a key part in driving continuous improvement and operational excellence.

You’ll be responsible for creating and managing production schedules, using your planning knowledge to coordinate orders in line with customer delivery commitments and site efficiency targets. By optimising production flow, monitoring capacity, and identifying risks early, you’ll help keep our manufacturing operations running smoothly and efficiently.

Key Responsibilities: (included but not limited)

• Take responsibility for your own health and safety, working in line with company procedures to maintain a safe environment.

• Create and manage production plans for the corrugator, and conversion areas using the CBS business system—maximising machine efficiency and meeting tight deadlines.

• Carry out pre-planning, including order selection and compilation.

• Monitor and review progress through CBS SFDC and adjust plans as needed to reflect operational changes.

• Maintain daily oversight of paper stocks, organising replenishment and completing month-end stock reconciliations.

• Analyse variances in paper usage against plan and drive appropriate corrective actions.

• Work closely with the Internal Sales Team to understand customer requirements and align them with production capabilities.

• Participate in daily sales/planning meetings and contribute to ad hoc discussions when required.

• Attend daily operations reviews, supporting continuous improvement activities and contributing to relevant KPIs.

• Join daily transport meetings, providing order status updates to support delivery planning.

About You

We’re looking for someone with manufacturing experience, strong planning and time-management skills, and the ability to make confident decisions under pressure. With solid commercial awareness, excellent communication skills, proficiency in Microsoft Office (ideally in Excel), and a methodical, detail-focused approach, you perform reliably in fast-paced, customer-driven environments

Minimum Requirements:

• Experience working in a manufacturing environment

• Proven background in time management, planning, and coordination

• Confident decision-maker, especially under time pressure

• Strong record of performance in a fast-paced, customer-focused setting

• Commercial awareness and understanding of the financial impact of operational decisions

• Competent in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel

• Excellent communication and influencing skills

• Methodical approach with strong attention to detail

Benefits

Additional benefits include:

• Pension scheme

• Life assurance

• Income protection

• Employee assistance program

• Cycle to work scheme

• Shopping discounts

Location: Featherstone – on site

Working Pattern: 2 weeks on, 1 week off

• Week 1: Monday–Friday, 13:00–23:00

• Week 2: Monday–Sunday, 06:00–14:00

• Week 3: Off

About us

We’re DS Smith, the company who are redefining packaging for a changing world.  We believe a better, more sustainable tomorrow is possible with the right people, who challenge and support one another to enact positive change. Today, we operate in more than 30 different countries, supporting customers across sectors like FMCG, industrial, and e-commerce. We deliver on quality, service, innovation, and added value to deliver market-leading sustainable packaging solutions our customers need. Our industry needs to transform, and we’re building the team to drive change across Europe and North America

To fulfil our purpose of redefining packaging for a changing world, we aim to build a diverse, motivated, and engaged workforce. Our goal is to create a culture of inclusion where everyone is treated fairly, differences are valued, and everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. 

Our people come from diverse backgrounds, bring different perspectives, ideas and experiences to generate unique solutions focused on present and future sustainability challenges. We welcome all candidates to apply, even those not meeting all criteria.

~LI-CE