Job Description:

Elevation Recruitment Group are excited to be partnered with a long established specialist metals manufacturer in Sheffield, supplying high performance steels and alloys into aerospace and energy, who are looking to appoint a Senior Operations Manager to take full ownership of one of their key manufacturing sites.

Reporting into the Production Director, the Senior Operations Manager will lead melt, maintenance, engineering and production control teams, with full accountability for safety, people, quality, responsiveness and cost across the site.

This is a genuine site leadership role. You will set the operational direction, drive furnace utilisation, yield and productivity, and build a high performance culture where people own their results. There is real scope to shape the site through capital investment, continuous improvement and organisational development.

Benefits:

• Company pension scheme
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Senior level role with direct exposure to the leadership team and CEO
• Capital investment and growth agenda to lead
• Monday to Friday, days based

Duties of the Senior Operations Manager will include:

• Full accountability for all site operations, delivering safe, efficient and profitable performance against operational and financial KPIs
• Leading the Melt, Maintenance, Engineering, Production Control and support functions
• Maximising furnace utilisation, throughput, yield and productivity across all site processes
• Owning risk management, including risk assessments, safe working practices and SOPs, plus full HSE, quality and regulatory compliance
• Driving asset reliability and maintenance effectiveness to cut downtime
• Championing continuous improvement focused on cost reduction, waste elimination and process optimisation
• Identifying and delivering capital investment and productivity projects
• Leading workforce planning, succession and talent development, reporting regularly to the senior leadership team

Requirements of the Senior Operations Manager:

• Extensive senior operational leadership in steelmaking, aerospace metals, forging or another heavy manufacturing environment
• Proven track record leading large, multi functional operational teams in a complex manufacturing setting
• Experience delivering operational transformation and culture change
• Strong working knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma, TPM and Operational Excellence
• Experience managing significant operational budgets and capital investment projects
• Strong understanding of quality management systems and customer approval requirements, ideally aerospace
• A visible, credible leader who develops high performing teams and future leaders
• Degree qualified in Engineering, Metallurgy, Manufacturing or Operations Management (desirable)

This role is commutable from: Rotherham, Barnsley, Chesterfield, Doncaster, Dronfield, Stocksbridge, Wakefield, Worksop

Suited candidates previously hold roles such as: Operations Director, Head of Operations, Site Director, Plant Manager, General Manager, Works Manager, Melt Shop Manager, Senior Operations Manager, Production Director