Senior Operations Manager
Recruiter: 1492 Search
Location: Worcestershire
Salary: £70,000 + benefits
Application date: 20th May 2026
If you’re an ambitious operations leader craving real ownership, influence, and a future succession path, this role gives you exactly that.
You’ll be the go to on site leader while the MD spends extended periods overseas (putting you at the centre of decision making and shaping the future of a stable, profitable, growing manufacturing business.
For the right person, this can evolve into Director level and even future MD in the years ahead.
What You’ll Lead
• Daily operations across warehouse, production, and site management.
• Strengthening and developing teams where your leadership will make a visible difference.
• Improvement projects including warehouse upgrades, process optimisation, and site efficiency enhancements.
• Contractor and facilities management that keeps the site running smoothly.
• First line people leadership with support from outsourced HR and the Finance Director
What You Bring
• Strong track record in operational leadership within manufacturing.
• Experience in process, blending, or chemical type operations is helpful, not essential.
• Confident communicator with natural authority — someone people trust.
• Comfortable being the senior decision maker during MD overseas rotations.
• Commercial mindset: you understand ROI, capex justification, and project payback.
What You’ll Get
• Influence, autonomy, and genuine career acceleration.
• 7% employer pension, life insurance
• Friendly, tight knit 30 person site with no night shifts and early Friday finishes.