Digital Site Operations Manager

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 someone 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