Head of Operations

6 months ago


Abingdon, United Kingdom Tokamak Energy Full time

**Company Background**:
Oxford headquartered Tokamak Energy is widely recognised as a world-leader in high temperature superconductor (HTS) magnet, design, numerical modelling, and prototyping. This expertise was borne from our path towards commercial fusion energy in developing spherical tokamaks with high HTS magnets. We have pioneered these technologies since 2012, long before their importance was widely recognised.

Come and be a part of a dynamic and innovative team who are striving to provide a solution to one of humanity’s greatest challenges: clean and sustainable energy for all.

**Overview of the role**:
The MBU is new structure within Tokamak Energy. We want to usher in the HTS era. This is a leadership role within the MBU focused on creating and improving our operational structures to manage day-to-day activities across the unit. We recognise we are in our infancy, but we are ambitious have big plans to grow fast and make a global impact. We need a leader to help use shape our structure and processes to ensure we operate efficiently and effectively where every member of our unit is maximising the use of their key skills.

**In this role, you will**:

- Implement operational process to support BD and the delivery of products.
- Lead on business-as-usual operational activities for such as magnet production, safety and quality, supply and procurement, and resourcing.
- Develop metrics and KPIs then lead on monitoring MBU's delivery and performance.
- Enhance our communication and sharing of information within the MBU ensuring standards, policies and procedures are used effectively to support our work towards our vision.
- Support the MBU Magnets Lead and their direct reports to effectively plan resources and aid the recruiting and development of capability.
- Support with the cultural change from an R&D focussed operation to a product
- to-customer mindset.
- Support with budget management for the Magnets team, including forecast, and monitoring.
- Work closely with the TE portfolio, programme, project office and key senior stakeholders to follow best practices and ensure business efficiency.

**Requirements**:

- Appropriate experience and proven track record of operations management, ideally within a company that took a novel technology to market
- A great organiser and planner with experience of resource and budget setting and management.
- An appreciation of a delivery focus and customer focus environment.
- A good understanding of process development, IT tools and wider business governance and supporting processes.
- A broad understanding of engineering design and/or software development processes is beneficial.
- Experience of deep tech hardware production and delivery is beneficial.
- Empathetic and able to form a strong network of effective relationships across the organisation.
- Great communication skills (both oral and written) with the ability to report project status, issues and plans concisely and effectively in different forums.
- Proactive, energetic and delivery focused and able to support and motivate the team to progress with good problem-solving skills.
- Adaptable and resilient, with the ability to deal with ambiguity.

**Benefits**
- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays and 3 festive days to be used between Christmas and the New Year)
- Company pension scheme
- Eligible for company share option scheme
- Company bonus scheme, discretionary, dependant on performance
- A range of financial benefits including death in service and critical illness cover
- Cycle to work scheme
- to-work, proof of identity and references.

**Data privacy**:

- regulation

**Equality of opportunity**:
**Working arrangements**:
Please note this role does offer hybrid working, our model sets out a minimum 60% onsite / 40% home working split.

Part time working or job share options will be reviewed on an individual basis.


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