Operations Manager

Our mission

At Electrogenos, we're building technology to make green hydrogen competitive  focus on reducing the cost and complexity of hydrogen production so it can replace fossil-based alternatives across real-world applications. We're an early-stage team working at the intersection of electrochemistry, manufacturing, and deployment.

We are looking for an Operations Manager to be the CTO's right hand and the person who makes Electrogenos run day-to-day. You will manage the office, support the founders, coordinate with suppliers and partners, and help keep our funded R&D projects on track. As the company grows, so will this role. This is not a back-office admin job. You will be embedded in a small, fast-moving technical team - sitting alongside scientists and engineers, understanding what they need, and making sure the operational side of the company works so they can focus on the technology.

You will also be part of the wider global operations team, coordinating with colleagues across the business on commercial, administrative, and strategic priorities. You'll have direct access to the founders from day one. We don't expect you to arrive knowing everything. If you've never prepared a grant claim or maintained safety records, we'll teach you. What we need is someone sharp, organised, and independent with a good sense of personal responsibility - the kind of person who figures things out, follows through, and doesn't wait to be told what to do next.

• Keep the Milton Park office, lab, and workshop running - you are the reason the environment works
• Support the CTO and CEO with scheduling, travel, meeting coordination, and whatever else the day throws at you
• Organise meetings: set agendas, take notes, chase actions until they're done
• Manage procurement: raise purchase orders, track deliveries, source new suppliers, chase outstanding orders
• Monitor inventory alongside the technical team and make sure the lab never runs out of what it needs
• Help build the operational processes and systems the company needs - procurement workflows, onboarding checklists, document templates, reporting routines
• Support onboarding of new team members and handle basic HR administration
• Help collect inputs for grant reports and financial claims when needed
• Help maintain health and safety records with input from the technical team
• Prepare and distribute documents for partners, investors, and events
• Contribute to how the company organises itself as it scales - you will have a voice in shaping the structures, tools, and ways of working that carry us from 10 to 20+ people

• Relentless follow-through - when you're asked to chase something, it gets done. Every time.
• Organised and reliable - you manage multiple threads at once and nothing falls through the cracks
• Independent and resourceful - you figure things out rather than waiting for instructions
• Good communicator - clear in writing, confident chasing people at all levels, comfortable saying "this is overdue" to a senior engineer
• Comfortable with procurement: purchase orders, suppliers, deliveries
• Good with standard business tools: spreadsheets, email, shared drives, calendars, task trackers
• Comfortable working in a technical or scientific environment - you don't need to be a scientist, but you shouldn't be intimidated by a lab
• Happy in a role that is broad, varied, and evolving

• Previous experience in a science, engineering, R&D, or university research environment
• Experience supporting grant-funded or publicly funded projects (even basic familiarity)
• A degree in a science or technical subject
• Experience with HR or people systems (Personio, BreatheHR, or similar)
• Previous startup or SME experience
• LLM basic literacy

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