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 somone 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:
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Downtime is expensive.
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Cyber risk is operational risk.
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Legacy systems slow innovation.
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Governance matters.
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Change requires influence.
What You Will Own
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Full Digital stakeholder leadership for the Filton Plant
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Site-level Digital roadmap aligned to production strategy
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Demand management and prioritisation
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Coordination of SAP, infrastructure, digital workplace and shopfloor deployments
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OT cyber maturity improvement
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Incident governance (RCA, PPS, MTTR reduction)
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Supplier performance management
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Legacy system decommissioning
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Digital4Operations community leadership
You will operate at the intersection of:
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Operations
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Maintenance
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Cyber Security
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IT/OT
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Central Digital Product Lines
What We’re Looking For
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Strong background in Digital/IT leadership within industrial manufacturing
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Experience working in live production environments (aerospace preferred)
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Exposure to IT/OT convergence
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Understanding of operational cyber risk
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Proven stakeholder management at senior plant level
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Ability to challenge status quo and drive change
