Manufacturing Operations Manager

3 weeks ago


Coventry, Coventry, United Kingdom the-mtc Full time

Manufacturing Operations Manager

The Manufacturing Operations Manager will lead a team of manufacturing professionals to ensure the delivery of performance for Safety, Quality, Cost, and Delivery against agreed targets.

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Ensure compliance of all appropriate processes and act as a role model for desirable behavior.
  • Accountable for the cell team's health and safety.
  • Manage the team's absence and behaviors to ensure they meet the expectations of the MTC.
  • Inspire a culture of continuous improvement and strive to empower team members to take action to resolve issues independently.
  • Empowered to stop work and tasks, should the behavior or process be inappropriate or unsafe.
  • Overall day-to-day management of the Cell schedule and its performance against commitments for schedule and cost, while ensuring quality and safety requirements are maintained.
  • Influence the strategic capability requirements for the future development of the cell's machines and people.

Person Specification

We are looking for a candidate who has:

  • Significant and proven experience and technical expertise in a manufacturing discipline.
  • Experience in managing teams to achieve business objectives.
  • An understanding and experience of implementing and executing Lean manufacturing principles within an operational cell.
  • Ability to translate customer requirements into a deployed capability installation.
  • UK National, holding or capable of achieving further security clearance.

For more information, please see the job description attached.

About The MTC

The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) is an internationally renowned and respected research and development organisation, bridging the gap between academia and manufacturing.

The MTC's engineers, scientists, and technicians work with some of the most advanced manufacturing equipment in the world in a supportive and collegiate environment for the development and demonstration of new technologies on an industrial scale.

Established to prove cutting-edge manufacturing advances in an agile environment in partnership with industry, academia, and other institutions, the MTC works with hundreds of industrial clients across a range of sectors.

The MTC helps businesses thrive by advancing their technological and engineering capabilities to improve their business efficiency, capability, and competitiveness.

Supported by one of the largest public sector investments in UK Manufacturing, the MTC's engineering capabilities cover research and development, advanced manufacturing management, factory design, and training for the skills of the future.

The MTC has world-class facilities in Coventry, Liverpool, and Oxford, and is part of the UK's High Value Manufacturing Catapult, supported by Innovate UK.

Reference Checks and Security Checks (where applicable)

Due to the nature of our business, all employment is subject to satisfactory references being obtained alongside a level of security clearance checks.


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