Operations Manager

The Organisation Based in the West Midlands (Birmingham / Leicester region) this specialist UK manufacturer and distributor of precision consumable cutting tools is part of a US owned engineering design and manufacturing business with multiple companies operating across the USA and Europe. The US parent has recently announced the UK site will see significant investment in employee numbers, state of the art equipment, systems and upgrades in of site facilities. The UK operation has a cutting-edge production facility with top-of-the-line machinery and inspection systems, manufacturing products including solid carbide tools, tool bodies etc, as well as modification and regrind services. They are renowned for their outstanding customer service and swift response times for clients, predominantly UK OEMs in aerospace, automotive and specialist manufacturing sectors. Position summary/role overview: The Operations Manager is accountable for the deployment of plant production resources in a manner that best optimizes human and physical resources effectively and efficiently to meet business goals and objectives. The role reports to the Managing Director with a dotted line to Group Head of Operations (Europe), but neither are based on site, so this role has significant autonomy in terms of an "all operations" remit. The role has an important improvements element, through cross functional team management in the delivery of key programmes such as special tool production, product cost reductions, productivity improvement and overhead management, as well as direct production management responsibility. Key responsibilities >Working directly with department heads on site and across the wider Group to deliver improvements and Group synergies in the following areas: lean manufacturing product quality performance layouts, MWIs and other manufacturing support functions product cost management/reduction programmes >All day-to-day management of direct production operations including: resource and cost management delivery of production to agreed schedules productivity and improvement programmes to deliver best in class manufacturing performance >Manufacturing strategy implementation. >Product cost management/reduction programmes through both engineering and purchasing activity. >Operational improvement programmes (through Kaizen, Kanban and other WCM techniques). Centralised programs Set up time reduction Cycle-time improvement Scheduling techniques

Location: West Midlands, UK, GB

Posted Date: 11/9/2025