diff --git a/app/aws/s3.py b/app/aws/s3.py
index 52e2a5eb1..3f2af6183 100644
--- a/app/aws/s3.py
+++ b/app/aws/s3.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import datetime
 import re
 import time
+from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
 
 import botocore
 from boto3 import Session
@@ -115,33 +116,56 @@ def cleanup_old_s3_objects():
         )
 
 
-def get_s3_files():
+def read_s3_file(bucket_name, object_key, s3res):
+    """
+    This method runs during the 'regenerate job cache' task.
+    Note that in addition to retrieving the jobs and putting them
+    into the cache, this method also does some pre-processing by
+    putting a list of all phone numbers into the cache as well.
 
+    This means that when the report needs to be regenerated, it
+    can easily find the phone numbers in the cache through JOBS[<job_id>_phones]
+    and the personalization through JOBS[<job_id>_personalisation], which
+    in theory should make report generation a lot faster.
+
+    We are moving processing from the front end where the user can see it
+    in wait time, to this back end process.
+    """
+    try:
+
+        object_arr = object_key.split("/")
+        job_id = object_arr[1]  # get the job_id
+        job_id = job_id.replace(".csv", "")  # we just want the job_id
+        if JOBS.get(job_id) is None:
+            object = (
+                s3res.Object(bucket_name, object_key)
+                .get()["Body"]
+                .read()
+                .decode("utf-8")
+            )
+            if "phone number" in object.lower():
+                JOBS[job_id] = object
+                JOBS[f"{job_id}_phones"] = extract_phones(object)
+                JOBS[f"{job_id}_personalisation"] = extract_personalisation(object)
+    except LookupError:
+        # perhaps our key is not formatted as we expected.  If so skip it.
+        current_app.logger.exception("LookupError #notify-admin-1200")
+
+
+def get_s3_files():
+    """
+    We're using the ThreadPoolExecutor here to speed up the retrieval of S3
+    csv files for scaling needs.
+    """
     bucket_name = current_app.config["CSV_UPLOAD_BUCKET"]["bucket"]
-    objects = list_s3_objects()
+    object_keys = list_s3_objects()
 
     s3res = get_s3_resource()
     current_app.logger.info(
         f"JOBS cache length before regen: {len(JOBS)} #notify-admin-1200"
     )
-    for object in objects:
-        # We put our csv files in the format "service-{service_id}-notify/{job_id}"
-        try:
-            object_arr = object.split("/")
-            job_id = object_arr[1]  # get the job_id
-            job_id = job_id.replace(".csv", "")  # we just want the job_id
-            if JOBS.get(job_id) is None:
-                object = (
-                    s3res.Object(bucket_name, object)
-                    .get()["Body"]
-                    .read()
-                    .decode("utf-8")
-                )
-                if "phone number" in object.lower():
-                    JOBS[job_id] = object
-        except LookupError:
-            # perhaps our key is not formatted as we expected.  If so skip it.
-            current_app.logger.exception("LookupError #notify-admin-1200")
+    with ThreadPoolExecutor() as executor:
+        executor.map(lambda key: read_s3_file(bucket_name, key, s3res), object_keys)
 
     current_app.logger.info(
         f"JOBS cache length after regen: {len(JOBS)} #notify-admin-1200"
diff --git a/app/config.py b/app/config.py
index 71fa4ed23..9a4412615 100644
--- a/app/config.py
+++ b/app/config.py
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ class Config(object):
             },
             "regenerate-job-cache": {
                 "task": "regenerate-job-cache",
-                "schedule": crontab(minute="*/30"),
+                "schedule": crontab(minute="*/3"),
                 "options": {"queue": QueueNames.PERIODIC},
             },
             "regenerate-job-cache-on-startup": {