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