Head of Digital Projects

Job Overview

Airbus Broughton is looking for a dynamic, visionary Head of Digital Projects to lead its digital transformation. The role requires driving Industry4.0 initiatives, managing complex budgets, and developing a high performing, autonomous digital team.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the plant's 5 year digital strategy and workforce transformation, fostering an autonomous culture through upskilling, cross functional alignment and talent development.
• Direct end to end deployment of plant OWO digitalisation projects, managing CAPEX/OPEX, mitigating risks, and enforcing SQCDP metrics to secure governance approvals and realise value.
• Direct the site's complete digital transformation and business continuity portfolio across all manufacturing operations, leveraging Industry4.0, AI tools, scalable data infrastructure and Google Workspace migrations.
• Represent the Broughton plant at transnational strategic planning events, harmonise local execution with central digital capabilities, and build robust stakeholder and supplier networks.

Qualifications & Experience

• Proven experience managing, developing and leading high performing professional teams.
• Demonstrated success applying project management tools, techniques and governance to complex multi functional team (MFT) projects.
• Strong change management capability, challenging the status quo and guiding transitions in a fast paced industrial environment.
• Technical proficiency with data fundamentals, Google Workspace and Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with big data platforms such as Palantir and Skywise is highly desirable.

Benefits & Working Conditions

• Competitive salary with annual profit share, contributory pension, share options, car leasing and salary sacrifice options.
• 35 hour week, core hour flexibility, optional holiday buy/sell, and flexible working arrangements.
• Personalised development plan and unlimited access to 10,000+ e learning courses, internal mobility and international opportunities.
• Bupa health insurance (including assisted fertility, gender dysphoria and reassignment support), 24/7 online GP and mental health support, discounted family health/dental/eye insurance, cycle to work scheme, on site canteen and coffee shop.
• Life assurance, enhanced pay for parental leave (23 weeks at 100% pay), adoption, shared parental and caregiving leave, purpose built maternity rooms.
• Well being room, multi faith room, employee representative groups (Gender, LGBTQ+, International, Generational, Disability, Social & Cultural Diversity, Neurodiversity).

Employment & Location

• Security clearance: Eligibility to gain UK SC Security Clearance
• Travel: Occasional local and international travel
• Location: Broughton
• Type: Full time, Permanent

Equal Opportunity & Inclusivity

Airbus is committed to workforce diversity, inclusive working environments and equal opportunities for all applicants irrespective of social, cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief. As a Disability Confident Employer, Airbus will offer an interview to applicants who identify as having a disability or long term condition under the Equality Act2010.