Digital Site Operations Manager

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.

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.

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.

• 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
• Digital4
  
  Operations community leadership

You will operate at the intersection of:

• Operations
• Maintenance
• Cyber Security
• IT/OT
• Central Digital Product Lines

• 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