Site Scheduler

Full job description
Are you highly organised, detail-oriented, and ready to take ownership of production schedules at a fast-paced, dynamic FMCG environment? Join Refresco, the world’s largest independent bottler of soft drinks and fruit juices, as our next Site Scheduler.

In this pivotal role, you’ll be the driving force behind our short-term production planning, ensuring customer service excellence while minimising cost. Working closely with production, supply planning, and warehousing teams, you’ll build and control a rolling 3-week finite production schedule—delivering availability, efficiency, and performance.


Site Scheduler – Refresco, Milton Keynes

Days, Monday – Friday, 38 hours per week.


What’s in it for you?

5% Annual bonus
4% Employer pension contribution
Life assurance
28 days holiday plus bank holidays
Purchase extra holiday scheme
Free online doctors’ appointments for you and your family
Access to employee benefits platform – Cheers which includes flexible benefits such as; healthcare cover, healthcare cash plan, dental insurance, car scheme, activities pass, financial services, will writing services etc.

The Role:

The Site Scheduler at Refresco plays a key role in managing the short-term production schedule to ensure products are manufactured efficiently, on time, and in line with customer demand.

Plan & Optimise
Develop and manage a rolling 3-week finite production schedule that balances customer demand, inventory targets, and efficient factory utilisation.

Adapt & Respond
Proactively adjust and re-sequence the production plan in response to material availability, equipment issues, or performance variances—ensuring clear, timely communication across the business.

Own the Locked Period
Take full ownership of the short-term 'locked' planning window. Address any planning alerts with minimal disruption, maintaining stability and consistency.

Coordinate Materials & Warehousing
Initiate timely material call-offs and optimise stock movements across local warehouse networks to ensure cost-effective storage and logistics solutions.

Champion Process Excellence
Leverage planning systems such as SAP and Preactor to uphold data accuracy and drive continuous improvement. Lead key planning meetings and contribute to the development of more automated, efficient planning tools.

Lead and Support Change
Play a central role in the seamless introduction of new products and changes to existing SKUs—ensuring all changes are reflected in the schedule in a timely, cost-effective manner.


About You:

Experience in Finite Scheduling or Production Planning (2–3 years preferred)
You’ve spent time in a scheduling or planning role, ideally within a manufacturing environment, and understand how to balance production efficiency with customer demand.

Understanding of Production Constraints & Schedule Optimisation
You can build realistic, achievable plans that take into account line capacity, labour, changeovers, and downtime—ensuring smooth and efficient operations.

SAP Supply Planning or ERP Knowledge (Preferred)
Familiarity with SAP or similar planning systems will help you hit the ground running. You understand the importance of data accuracy and using digital tools to drive planning efficiency.

Strong Communication, Analytical & Interpersonal Skills
You’re comfortable working across functions, can interpret data to make decisions, and communicate clearly with stakeholders at all levels.

Ability to Thrive Under Pressure
You stay calm and focused in a fast-paced environment, managing tight deadlines and last-minute changes with confidence and control.

Proactive, Results-Focused & Team-Oriented
You take initiative, deliver on commitments, and work collaboratively to solve problems and improve performance.

FMCG Experience (Advantageous)
Experience in a fast-moving consumer goods environment is a plus—you know what it takes to succeed where speed, flexibility, and customer service are everything.


About Refresco:

Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global, National and Emerging brands, and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia. Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass. Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market demand.


Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and has more than 13,500 employees. www.refresco.com.


Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we’re only just getting started.


We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers. Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards. Our products get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high-profile customers.


Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.


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The recruitment process
1
Do you think you have what it takes? Apply for this vacancy via our website. Please include your resumé in your application.

2
We'll review your application and when we think we could be a match we will invite you for an interview to get to know you better. Sometimes the interviews will take place over multiple rounds.

3
If you are the preferred candidate for the role, we'll offer you a contract and welcome you to the Refresco team!