Operations Manager
Location: Segensworth, near Portsmouth/Southampton, Hampshire
Salary: Up to £85,000, plus five weeks’ holiday, 11% pension, share-save scheme, supermarket discounts, on-site gym, progression.
Are you a strategic operations leader ready to prime and shape machining and final assembly performance at a market leading aerospace business? This is a high impact role on the Site Leadership Team, driving operational excellence, CI culture and data led decision-making across the production value stream.
Tell me more!
You’ll lead production across Advanced Machining and Final Assembly, spread across two sites just a stone’s throw from each other. You’ll define and deliver the strategic plan for capacity, layout and continued capital investment – over £1.3m has recently been invested in new CNC machinery.
As Operations Manager you’ll have two direct reports: the Production Manager for Assembly operations (circa 55 shop floor professionals) and the Machine Shop Production Manager (around 25 indirect professionals). You’ll work closely with them as well as the Master Production Scheduler to ensure material flow is optimised, enabling your teams to improve efficiency and deliver consistently strong metrics as the site continues its growth journey.
This role carries full accountability for operational performance across both sites – driving Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and People objectives. You’ll be responsible for embedding lean practices, developing succession plans, and crucially ensuring production capability scales with customer demand. As a member of the Site Leadership Team, you’ll also provide clear, data-led reporting and play a key role in representing the business to customers, Group and PLC level.
What we’re looking for
Senior leadership in precision manufacturing; strong exposure to machining and assembly
Proven and demonstrable success in implementing Lean initiatives.
ERP fluency and confident data analytics to drive tactical and strategic decisions
Strong knowledge and experience of working within highly regulated environments
An agile and influential communicator who coaches, leads, manages change and challenges the status quo
LEAN certification highly desirable
This is an excellent opportunity to join a respected aerospace company employing 180 people on site, with steady year-on-year growth. A cash rich business happy to invest and support the drive to their journey from 25M to 30M turnover in the next 5 years.
To find out more, contact Neil Williams at Kingdom People on (phone number removed), or click Apply Now to send your CV — we’ll review it promptly and be in touch.
Kingdom People is acting as a Recruitment Agency on behalf of its client