General Manager
Location: Avonmouth
Benefits: Pension scheme, private healthcare, performance-based bonus, competitive benefits package
Contract: Full-time, Permanent
The Role:
We are seeking an experienced and highly capable General Manager to lead the production of high-value, large-scale, and technically complex products. Each product is delivered through a complex, long-duration assembly process, requiring excellent operational oversight, uncompromising quality standards, and disciplined leadership.
This is a senior operational role within a secure manufacturing environment, responsible for end-to-end factory performance, people leadership, compliance, and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities:
* Provide overall leadership and day-to-day management of factory operations
* Ensure production plans and schedules are delivered safely, on time, and to specification
* Maintain and enforce robust quality assurance standards across complex assembly processes
* Drive process improvement through lean manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives
* Ensure compliance with all UK Health & Safety legislation and internal policies
* Manage factory budgets, cost control, and efficient resource allocation
* Lead, motivate, and develop a skilled workforce, fostering a culture of accountability and excellence
* Work closely with Engineering, Procurement, Logistics, and end customer to ensure seamless coordination and delivery
About You:
The successful candidate will demonstrate:
* Experience in factory or manufacturing management
* Proven experience managing high-value, complex assembly operations
* Strong technical knowledge of manufacturing processes, quality control, and supply chain operations
* A track record of leading and developing high-performing teams
* Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills
Please note that any offer of employment is conditional upon successful completion of BPSS and SC clearance. This requires the applicant to be a sole British National with a minimum of five years’ continuous UK address history, typically with no periods of 30 consecutive days or more spent outside the UK.
Please note applications will be reviewed in January after the Christmas break.