Operations Director
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Location: Cumbria
Salary: Competitive
Application date: 6th Aug 2020
This SME business is a specialist manufacturing business supplying miniature engineered parts to global industries.
With recent and planned investment in people, plant and capacity they are geared up to continue their growth. The business has a supportive and long-term investment partner that is enabling the business to leverage its expertise and knowledge.
To enable this growth, they are now looking to recruit an Operations Director to take responsibility for end to end supply of the company’s product.
The Candidate
Responsible for everything in the day to day operations and the manufacturing strategy the successful candidate must be able to demonstrate the following:
• Previous operational management in an SME environment
• Theoretical and practical knowledge of lean and problem-solving tools and techniques
• Experience of upskilling, training and development of line management and operatives
• Ideally degree educated in Mechanical Engineering
The successful candidate can expect to enjoy high degrees of autonomy in a flexible and agile working environment whilst working closely with the Managing Director and an experienced equity investor.