Operations Director

Location: Alfreton, Derbyshire – Relocation package available

Salary: Circa £100k plus excellent benefits package  

A large Aerospace Manufacturing company are now looking to recruit a hands on, strategic Operations Director to join their company.

The company specialises in Manufacturing precision machined parts with manufacturing facilities across the UK.

Operations Director – Job Role:

Responsible for delivery of company objectives in terms of Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, and People (SQCDP) within a defined Business Group through the rigorous application of the Company Operating Model (NOM).

Key accountabilities

General

• Ensuring the disciplined execution of Daily Management (i.e. SQCDP process) at Tier 2 (Business Group) and Tier 1 (Cell).
• Contributing to the site strategy through the Hoshin Kanri (Strategy Deployment) process and ensuring its execution in the Business Group.
• Take ownership when having to make difficult decisions linked to the Business Group.
• Hold functional support staff accountable for adhering to business standards and enabling their team to meet their targets.
• Leading and developing their team to understand the context, mechanics, and delivery SQCDP targets to meet customer and stakeholder commitments.
• Display activist leadership in Problem Solving using a ‘Go to Gemba’ approach, with the ambition that 98% of issues can be solved within the Business Group itself.
• The above summary is framed by SQCDP category as shown below:

Safety

• Exemplify a safety-first mindset ensuring the company Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) framework, standard and policies are adhered to.
• Contributing to the site HSE culture of improving the working environment through maintaining a safe and organised working area (5S).

Quality

• Ensure Cell Leaders and Team Members follow manufacturing methods and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to maintain product conformance and traceability.
• Ensure Cell Leaders and Team Members perform component quality checks using calibrated measuring equipment.

Cost

• Manage the allocated Business Group financial budget.
• Ensure assets are maintained with a “brand new forever” mindset through the deployment and adherence to the site Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) system.
• Provide input to Capex projects.

Delivery

• Daily achievement of the Production Plan.
• Collaboration with colleagues in other departments to support achievement of Customer and Company targets, objectives, and goals.
• People
• Development of first-class Cell Leaders who are readily able to progress to become a future Group Leader or take other roles in the business.   
• Be open, honest, and timely when appraising and managing individuals’ performance whilst supporting and coaching the closure of performance gaps.
• Working as part of a team.

Operations Director – Person Requirements:

The ideal candidate MUST come from the Manufacturing Industry as a Operations Director.  You will also have the following skills, qualifications or experience:

• Ideally hold an Engineering qualification such as HNC, HND, BEng of MBA or similar
• Experience with implementing Continuous Improvements and LEAN Techniques
• Experience of Managing P&L, Capex Proposals, Real Time Measuring and standard hours etc
• Ideally come from a Precision Machining background, Aerospace, Automotive, Sub-Contract Manufacturing or Similar background
• It is essential that you also have the right mix of having a strategic approach and also a hands on focus. Th site is very old and needs a lot of work updating machinery and systems etc.

For more information please call Paul Gorton on (phone number removed).

LER (SG) Ltd are acting as a 3rd party on behalf of our client.  All applications will be held on our database for current and future positions. 

We will endeavour to get back to all applicants but if you have not heard from LER within 10 working days then your application has been unsuccessful but please feel free to contact us for an update.