Operations Manager

Closing date for applications: 30 Nov 2025
Salary:
Up to £85k based on experience

Location:

Porvair Filtration Group, Segensworth, Fareham

Main purpose of job role:

Responsible for leadership and management of production function – Porvair Advanced Machining and Production – Final assembly operations. Coordination, training, facilitation and execution of direct manufacturing operational activities and continuous improvement projects. To create a safety and learning culture through growth leadership and investment in employee development; driving a continuous improvement environment employing lean principles and methodology to drive elimination of hazards, waste and KPI improvement (Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, People).

Define strategic investment opportunities for production, support business case preparation for board approval and coordination of capital expenditure and commission.

Main

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support the SLT in providing leadership and vision to the whole business
• Provide monthly reports to the SLT, supporting company KPI and representing the site to Customers, Porvair Group and Porvair PLC
• Promote a safety-first culture, encourage value driven behaviours, maintain a vision of excellence and integrity
• Challenge the status quo, bring new ideas to the team and stimulate discussion
• Act as an ambassador of the Company and protect company IP in line with agreed policies
• Sustains and promotes adherence to quality policies, procedures and governance controls

• Ensure safe working practices and conditions exist within the production environment
• Develop and deploy a business operating system to drive accountability culture across division
• Employ short cycle review and escalation for accelerated response to deviations to meet or exceed performance targets
• Define strategic plan for investment across machining and processing operations, establishing improvement schedules and designs for space layout and infrastructure development
• Assess, define and deploy future state organisational design to support strategic growth and scaling of division
• Deploy robust employee development planning process as foundation for succession planning and management of resource talent and availability
• Prioritise resources to ensure that business goals are met
• Prepare team budgets and manage costs in line with these
• Active participation and promotion of daily Tiered Accountability for escalation and support
• Promote adoption of lean methodologies and CI culture across manufacturing teams to optimise operational performance and establish a kaizen culture
• Monitor and report key performance metrics to team and site leadership
• Provide day-to-day management of the team, including attendance and performance oversight

• Ensure that all Health, Safety and Environmental policies and procedures are adhered to
• Maintenance and completion of process risk assessments
• Promote and drive visual factory, elevates operating standards and processes to highest levels of visual clarity
• Promote and support Layered Process Auditing (LPA) including implementation and maintenance of 5S

• Supports definition and deployment of strategic quality initiatives, strongly collaborates with Quality Manager
• Ensure Quality standards are achieved, costs minimised and within defined targets
• Promotes Material Review Board (MRB) process and functional contribution and engagement
• Embed RCCA methodology – promote A3 culture to drive rapid resolution of deviations
• Sustains and promotes adherence to quality policies, procedures and governance controls
• Support statutory, customer, regulatory and corporate reporting/audit requirements as necessary
• Support internal audit plan, conducting duties effectively and addressing non-conformity observations timely

• Support enhanced Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning (SIOP) process deployment working in close alliance with Master Production Scheduler to exceed performance targets
• Ensure adherence to MRP schedule, collaborating with MPS function to optimise delivery attainment
• Drive proactive actions to mitigate any risks to On-Time-Delivery (OTD)
• Support Sales,…