Manufacturing Operations Manager

As part of MBDA's continual volume growth and operational expansion, you could join our highly technical manufacturing environment as a Manufacturing Operations Manager with a pivotal role in shaping operational performance ensuring the delivery of complex, critical defence programmes. Additionally, having the knowledge, skills and personal drive to lead multi-functional groups to evolve our ways of operating towards a future state of manufacturing excellence.

Circa £70,000 depending on experience

5 days per week on-site due to workload classification

British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship

Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.

• Company Bonus: Bonus of up to 21% of base salary
• Pension
  : maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
• Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave
  -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
• Facilities
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  Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more…

This role is ideally suited to a proven manufacturing leader ready to take on the broader challenge of delivering our prototyping/development activities across critical defence programmes. You will lead and shape multi-functional teams, evolving our ways of operating and embedding best practices across manufacturing operations. A key focus will be fostering a strong continuous improvement culture that drives performance, builds capability and ensures the achievement and sustainment of manufacturing excellence.

You could find yourself leading a prototyping/development team or or leading the transition of complex systems into stable, repeatable manufacturing, whilst continuing to mature production operations by influencing the team and help shape the future.

• Lead and shape the manufacture, assembly, integration, and test of complex aerospace and defence systems.
• Operate at the forefront of manufacturing excellence, quality transformation, and operational improvement.
• Influence decision-making and outcomes at senior leadership level.
• Develop your leadership capability within a business committed to continuous improvement and developing its people.
• Identify improvements to our existing manufacturing and lead multi-functional groups and evolve our ways of operating.
• Gain exposure to major operational challenges, including ramp-up of new programmes, stabilising transitioning production lines, industrialisation of new systems, and improving established manufacturing flows.
• Benefit from clear progression opportunities into Head of Manufacturing or wider senior leadership roles for high performers.

This is a rare opportunity to build botha legacy of operational impact and a long-term leadership career within one of the UK's foremost advanced manufacturing organisations.

You will bring:

• Proven experience as an Operations, Production or Manufacturing Manager within a complex, regulated manufacturing environment (aerospace, defence, automotive or similar)
• Demonstrated leadership of multidisciplinary teams with a strong track record of delivery against safety, quality, cost and schedule objectives.
• Experience leading production ramp-up, industrialisation, of new products t or stabilisation of…