Industrial Operations Director

4 days ago


Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom Jigsaw Business Group Full time
About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Industrial Operations Director to join our team at Jigsaw Business Group. This is a unique opportunity to take on a challenging role that involves strategically planning, organising, and structuring operational resources to efficiently fulfill customer orders.

As an Industrial Operations Director, you will be responsible for stabilising the operational teams and resources across picking, packing, assembly, finishing, and manufacturing to consistently achieve and maintain key performance indicators (KPIs).

You MUST have CNC/Machining knowledge. Preferably metal finishing/polishing/coatings and some packing and outbound shipping knowledge.

The ideal candidate will be committed to developing, implementing, and maintaining rigorous quality assurance standards to ensure the delivery of exceptional products and services. By increasing the efficiency of existing processes and procedures, you will aim to enhance manufacturing capacity, enabling the insourcing of 20% of manufacturing activities and meeting crucial delivery and capability KPIs.

Key Responsibilities
  • Implement production systems, processes, and disciplines including but not limited to planning, scheduling, and sequencing to ensure best use of resources and on-time delivery of Customers' orders
  • Implement industry-leading manufacturing practices covering all manufacturing, finishing, assembly, packing, and shipping functions
  • Implement and improve the quality assurance processes and disciplines accountable to ensure exceptional quality products and services
  • Create and maintain HSE standards ensuring safety of all stakeholders as well as compliance to regulations, wellbeing of staff, housekeeping standards through 5S disciplines
  • Lead, train, motivate, and support the team within a time-sensitive and demanding environment, including process improvements and problem resolution
  • Partner and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve planning, processes, systems, and ultimately customer satisfaction
  • Budget and cost control
  • Schedule production and assembly activities and the outcomes to comply with QA and OTIF requirements
  • Accountable for staff conduct, wellbeing, living the values, and development

We estimate the salary for this role to be around £60,000 - £80,000 per annum, depending on experience.



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