Securitas
Scheduling Manager
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Scheduling Manager
Company Description
We’re Hiring: Scheduling Manager!
📍 Location: Milton Keynes, MK17 8LX
💰 Pay: £35,000 + £3,500 Night Allowance 🕒 Working Hours: Wednesday – Monday (9pm – 6am)
🎓 Learning & Development: From day one, you’ll gain access to:
- Outstanding Learning and Development opportunities
- Mentorship
- Big-brand discounts
- Give-back schemes
Grade: E
“See a Different World. Where potential is seen and progress is nurtured.”
Our Scheduling Manager roles are a unique opportunity to contribute to the shaping and building out of a brand-new Workforce Management function at the heart of our business.
We’re transforming how we plan, schedule, and deliver our services—and we’re looking for a Scheduling Manager who’s ready to play a key role in that journey. Help deliver excellence for our people and clients.
If you thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy leading teams, and want to make a real operational impact, this is your chance to help design something from the ground up and leave your mark.
About the Role
As Scheduling Manager, you’ll be at the centre of our operation—ensuring the right people are in the right place at the right time, every time. This role is about far more than managing schedules: it’s about shaping the workforce function, driving performance, efficiency, and service delivery across the business.
You’ll:
- Lead and develop a critical team while influencing the future of workforce planning.
- Impact customer satisfaction, operational performance, and employee experience daily.
- Contribute to creating a safer world.
This is a great opportunity for a scheduling manager seeking their next big step in a progressive team. You’ll manage your own geographical area while overseeing a team of Administrators to ensure a unified approach to scheduling working hours.
Job Description
What You’ll Be Doing
As a Scheduling Manager, you’ll:
- Lead, coach, and inspire a team of schedulers to foster a high-performing, supportive, accountable environment delivering excellence.
- Take ownership of workforce scheduling using WFM systems, ensuring full and effective shift coverage across all operations.
- Monitor live operations, making real-time decisions to respond to changing demands for service continuity.
- Ensure compliance with contracts, legislation, and company policies—maintaining high ethical and operational standards.
- Act as the key escalation point for workforce and scheduling issues, resolving them efficiently.
- Utilise data, trends, and forecasting to anticipate future resourcing needs, improving workforce planning continuously.
- Oversee the accuracy of rostering, reducing pay queries, avoiding errors, and ensuring invoices are delivered on time.
- Support recruitment and identify the optimal staffing levels for business needs.
- Maintain compliance with licensing and training for personnel readiness.
- Drive continuous improvement, identifying smarter, more efficient working methods.
- Champion a high-performance culture, aligned with company values, focused on collaboration, accountability, and results.
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Please Note: This list is not exhaustive—just an overview of key duties! We welcome applicants from diverse industries, people- oriented leaders, and innovators ready to make a significant impact.
Qualifications
What We’re Looking For
You should embody: ✅ A natural leader, bringing energy, ownership, and accountability. ✅ Familiarity with WFM systems (Timegate desirable). ✅ Data-driven thinking—balancing strategy with action. ✅ Thriving under pressure, with the ability to make impactful, confident decisions. ✅ Exceptional communication skills, able to build lasting relationships with teams. ✅ A five-year checkable employment history or documented evidence of any period of unemployment, self-employment, or education during that time.
Set at job benchmark: Grade E
You must: 🔹 Uphold Securitas core values: Integrity, Vigilance, Helpfulness. 🔹 Hold the right to work in the UK.
Desirable: Experience in scheduling, workforce planning, or operation environments.
Additional Information
Join our global team of 336,000+ colleagues, helping make the world a safer place.
At Securitas, we live by our values of Integrity, Vigilance, and Helpfulness, and our People Promise:
- Opportunity: We see potential in every person and situation.
- People: We focus on what’s good.
- Purpose: We create a safer world for our clients.
What You Can Expect
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Diversity & Inclusion
We proudly support equality and differences.
📌 Level 2 Disability Confident status ensures interviews for eligible candidates if:
- You meet the role’s minimum requirements.
- You’ve disclosed a disability to our Talent Team.
Commitments & Initiatives:
- Employee Networks (empowering real change in the business)
- The Race at Work Charter
- Armed Forces Covenant
- Events like BSL Week, International Women’s Day, PRIDE, Black History Month
Your Benefits
Explore Securitas Perks for everyday savings and benefits:
| Perk | Details |
|---|---|
| Discount Program | Access to big-brand shopping deals. |
| Dental Plans | Cash back for dental exams, X-rays, and treatments. |
| HSF Health Plan | Discounted healthcare (dental, contact lenses, acupuncture, emergency care). |
| Cycle to Work | Up to 42% savings on bikes, equipment, and flexible repayments via salary. |
| Specsavers | Reduced-cost eye tests and glasses. |
| WeCare | 24/7 online GP, mental health support, fitness programs, and more. |
| Toothfairy | Expert UK dentist advice and guidance online. |
| Pension Plan | Build life-long financial strength: |
- Employer contributions.
- Tax relief on personal payments. | | Payroll ISA | Long-term savings plan to meet financial goals. | | Mortgage Advice | Free professional guidance for employees. | | Go & Live | Financial well-being support. | | Death in Service | Beneficiaries receive a lump-sum lump-sum if death occurs during employment. |
Take the Next Step
Join a team that values you. ✅ Apply here and begin your career with Securitas UK.
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