Scheduling Manager
Company: Securitas
Role summary
Scheduling Manager is a role at Securitas in Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom (on-site). Posted 2026-08-26. Experience level: 2-5.
- Job title
- Scheduling Manager
- Company
- Securitas
- Location
- Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom
- Work arrangement
- on-site
- Category
- Software Engineering
- Experience level
- 2-5
- Date posted
- 2026-08-26
If you are looking for a stable role where your organizational skills can truly shine, this is a great opportunity to manage complex scheduling for a respected security team. It offers a consistent full-time schedule and a clear environment where your ability to keep operations running smoothly will be highly valued.
Job description
Company Description
We’re Hiring: Scheduling Manager!
📍 Location: Milton Keynes, MK17 8LX
💰 Pay: £35,000 + £3,500 Night Allowance.
🕒 Working Hours: Friday - Wednesday (am) 10pm - 7am
🎓Learning & Development: From day one, you’ll gain access to outstanding Learning and Development opportunities, Mentorship, and a whole load of benefits from big brand discounts to 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 in the shaping and build 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 and help deliver excellence tour 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.
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. But this role is about far more than managing schedules. You’ll play a key part in shaping how our workforce function operates, driving performance, efficiency, and service delivery across the business. You’ll lead and develop a team that is critical to our success while influencing the future direction of workforce planning. The impact of your work as Scheduling Manager will be wide-reaching—directly affecting customer satisfaction, operational performance, and employee experience, day to day you will be guided with clear purpose as you contribute to help make the world a safer place.
Your expertise can take you further. From Rail and Retail to Contact Centres and Logistics, we welcome diverse experience and fresh thinking. Join us and help build the future. 🚀
Job Description
What you’ll be doing:
As a Scheduling Manager, you’ll:
Lead, coach and inspire a team of schedulers, creating a high-performing environment where people feel supported, motivated and accountable for delivering excellence
Take ownership of workforce scheduling through WFM systems, ensuring full and effective shift coverage across all operations
Monitor live operations and confidently make real-time decisions to respond to changing demands, ensuring continuity of service at all times
Ensure all scheduling activity is fully compliant with contracts, legislation and company policies, maintaining high operational and ethical standards
Act as the key escalation point for workforce and scheduling challenges, resolving issues quickly and effectively
Use data, trends and forecasting insights to anticipate future resourcing needs and continuously improve workforce planning
Oversee the accuracy of rostering, reducing pay queries, preventing errors, and ensuring invoices are delivered on time
Support recruitment and workforce planning activity, helping to maintain optimal staffing levels in line with business needs
Ensure all personnel are fully compliant with licensing and training requirements, maintaining readiness for deployment
Drive continuous improvement, identifying smarter, more efficient ways of working to enhance service delivery
Champion and embed a high-performance culture, aligned with company values and focused on collaboration, accountability and results
Please Note: This list is not extensive but gives a good overview of the duties of the role! We welcome applicants from different industries, people orientated leaders and innovators ready to make a big impact!
Qualifications
What we’re looking for:
A natural leader who brings energy, ownership, and accountability
Experience with WFM systems (Timegate desirable)
Data-driven Thinking with the ability to balance strategy and delivery
Someone who thrives in complexity and can make confident decisions under pressure
Excellent communicator who builds lasting relationships across teams
Have a five-year checkable employment history or be able to produce documentary evidence of any period of unemployment, self-employment, or full and part time education during that period
The ability to embody and uphold the Securitas core values of Integrity, Vigilance and Helpfulness
Must have the right to work in the UK
Ability to work independently
Organisational skills
Good IT skills
Good written and verbal communication skills
Desirable
Experience in scheduling, workforce planning, or operations environments.
Additional Information
It’s great to see you’re considering a career with Securitas UK! You're one step closer to joining a global team of 336,000+ colleagues who help make the world a safer place each and every day.
Here, we live by our values of Integrity, Vigilance and Helpfulness, which help guide how we operate and how our people experience work, each and every day! We have a promise too:
Opportunity – We see potential in every person and situation
People – We open our eyes to all that’s good
Purpose – We make your world a safer place
So what you can expect
Our Talent Team reviews every application carefully. We know applying can feel daunting, but we’re here to support you—just email us if you need help. No matter the outcomes, you will always receive communication from us.
See an inclusive world
Inclusion isn’t a tick-box for us – it’s how we work. We know our strength comes from different perspectives, in every role and every team. We’re proud to be a Level 2 Disability Confident employer. If you tell us you have a disability when you apply, and you meet the minimum requirements for the role, our Talent Team will guarantee you an interview.
Through our Employee Networks, the Race at Work Charter, the Armed Forces