Digital Site Operations Manager

Posted 3 hours 27 minutes ago by Meritus Talent

£30 - £35 Hourly
Contract
Not Specified
I.T. & Communications Jobs
Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Job Description

MERITUS are recruiting for a Digital Site Operations Manager to join our client in supporting IT/OT site relationships and procedures. We are not looking for somone who has specialist hands on IT experience, but someone from an IT background who can be a focal point of digital organising for a leadership team.

DIGITAL SITE OPERATIONS MANAGER - INSIDE IR35 - £35 PER HOUR - FILTON, UK - 9 MONTHS - SINGLE STAGE INTERVIEW PROCESS

This is a high-impact Digital leadership role embedded within one of the UK's most advanced aerospace manufacturing environments.

Based at the Filton Plant - home to A400M wing assembly, A350 gear beam production, Wing Technology Development Centre and Additive Manufacturing capability - you will act as the senior Digital partner to plant leadership.

The Opportunity

You will own the Digital relationship with Operations.

Not as support.

As a strategic enabler.

You will shape and deliver the plant Digital roadmap, protect operational continuity, drive digitalisation, strengthen OT cybersecurity posture, and ensure Digital investment delivers measurable production value.

This is a role for someone who understands that in aerospace manufacturing:

  • Downtime is expensive.

  • Cyber risk is operational risk.

  • Legacy systems slow innovation.

  • Governance matters.

  • Change requires influence.

What You Will Own

  • Full Digital stakeholder leadership for the Filton Plant

  • Site-level Digital roadmap aligned to production strategy

  • Demand management and prioritisation

  • Coordination of SAP, infrastructure, digital workplace and shopfloor deployments

  • OT cyber maturity improvement

  • Incident governance (RCA, PPS, MTTR reduction)

  • Supplier performance management

  • Legacy system decommissioning

  • Digital4Operations community leadership

You will operate at the intersection of:

  • Operations

  • Maintenance

  • Cyber Security

  • IT/OT

  • Central Digital Product Lines

What We're Looking For

  • Strong background in Digital/IT leadership within industrial manufacturing

  • Experience working in live production environments (aerospace preferred)

  • Exposure to IT/OT convergence

  • Understanding of operational cyber risk

  • Proven stakeholder management at senior plant level

  • Ability to challenge status quo and drive change