Operations Manager

DY9, Lye, Dudley TRC Yorkshire We are hiring an Operations Manager to lead the safe, efficient, and compliant operation of a Manufacturing site. You’ll oversee Health & Safety, Quality, Production, Maintenance, Materials, Logistics, and Stores, ensuring operational targets are met while driving continuous improvement, compliance, and employee engagement. Hours: Monday to Thursday 7am-4pm Friday 7am-1pm Salary: Up to £60,000 DOE Type: Permanent Location: Lye, DY9 with occasional movement between sites, as the business needs Key Responsibilities * Lead HSE & Quality: Take overall responsibility for site health, safety, environmental and quality standards, driving a strong culture of compliance and continuous improvement. * Drive Production Performance: Lead day-to-day manufacturing operations, ensuring production targets, customer requirements and KPI’s are achieved. * Improve Maintenance & Engineering: Oversee maintenance, asset reliability and engineering activities, identifying opportunities to reduce downtime and improve equipment performance. * Manage Materials & Logistics: Oversee the efficient flow of materials, stock, stores, goods-in and despatch, ensuring safety, accuracy and customer delivery requirements are met. * Lead & Develop People: Provide strong leadership across the site, developing capability, engagement and accountability while fostering a positive, inclusive and high-performing culture. * Drive Continuous Improvement: Identify and implement improvements across safety, quality, productivity, efficiency, waste reduction and overall site performance. Essential skills & experience * Proven experience in managing a manufacturing/engineering facility or equivalent leadership role. * Demonstrated success improving production performance and operational KPIs. * Background in managing quality systems and audits. * Experience with maintenance/engineering operations within a manufacturing environment. Desirable skills & experience * Sage MRP Experience * NEBOSH General Certificate (or higher). * IOSH Managing Safely. * Knowledge of Press Shop / CNC Machinery For more information, please apply with a copy of your CV today and a member of our team will be in touch