diff --git a/roles/cron/cron_drupal8/defaults/main.yml b/roles/cron/cron_drupal8/defaults/main.yml
index 636557ca..f0674208 100644
--- a/roles/cron/cron_drupal8/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/roles/cron/cron_drupal8/defaults/main.yml
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ drupal:
           job: cron
           # disabled: true
           # mailto: "{{ drupal.cron_mailto | default('') }}" # Each cron can have it's own mailto and can be configured to use different e-mail addresses.
+          # file: "/etc/cron.d/{{ project_name }}_{{ site.folder }}_{{ build_type }}_{{ entry.job }}" # uncomment to create a file for cron - note, deploy user needs to be able to write to the location
   cron_mailto: ""
   # If the sites are being deployed to an ASG, setting defer to true will create the crontab entry on the deploy server rather than all of the app servers.
   defer: false
diff --git a/roles/cron/cron_drupal8/tasks/job.yml b/roles/cron/cron_drupal8/tasks/job.yml
index 23c7bd5b..ed801a90 100644
--- a/roles/cron/cron_drupal8/tasks/job.yml
+++ b/roles/cron/cron_drupal8/tasks/job.yml
@@ -43,4 +43,6 @@
       {{ _cron_job_command | trim }}
     state: present
     disabled: "{{ entry.disabled | default(omit) }}"
+    cron_file: "{{ entry.file | default(omit) }}"
+    user: "{{ www_user }}"
   delegate_to: "{{ 'localhost' if drupal.defer else inventory_hostname }}"