MERITUS are recruiting for a Digital Site Operations Manager to join our client in supporting IT/OT site relationships and procedures. We are not looking for somone who has specialist hands on IT experience, but someone from an IT background who can be a focal point of digital organising for a leadership team.
DIGITAL SITE OPERATIONS MANAGER - INSIDE IR35 - £35 PER HOUR - FILTON, UK - 9 MONTHS - SINGLE STAGE INTERVIEW PROCESS
This is a high-impact Digital leadership role embedded within one of the UK's most advanced aerospace manufacturing environments.
Based at the Filton Plant - home to A400M wing assembly, A350 gear beam production, Wing Technology Development Centre and Additive Manufacturing capability - you will act as the senior Digital partner to plant leadership.
The Opportunity
You will own the Digital relationship with Operations.
Not as support.
As a strategic enabler.
You will shape and deliver the plant Digital roadmap, protect operational continuity, drive digitalisation, strengthen OT cybersecurity posture, and ensure Digital investment delivers measurable production value.
This is a role for someone who understands that in aerospace manufacturing:
Downtime is expensive.
Cyber risk is operational risk.
Legacy systems slow innovation.
Governance matters.
Change requires influence.
What You Will Own
Full Digital stakeholder leadership for the Filton Plant
Site-level Digital roadmap aligned to production strategy
Demand management and prioritisation
Coordination of SAP, infrastructure, digital workplace and shopfloor deployments
OT cyber maturity improvement
Incident governance (RCA, PPS, MTTR reduction)
Supplier performance management
Legacy system decommissioning
Digital4Operations community leadership
You will operate at the intersection of:
Operations
Maintenance
Cyber Security
IT/OT
Central Digital Product Lines
What We're Looking For
Strong background in Digital/IT leadership within industrial manufacturing
Experience working in live production environments (aerospace preferred)
Exposure to IT/OT convergence
Understanding of operational cyber risk
Proven stakeholder management at senior plant level
Ability to challenge status quo and drive change