• As General Manager, your responsibilities will include:Leading operational performance across a high-mix, low-volume manufacturing environment.
• Improving productivity, efficiency and gross-margin delivery.
• Strengthening value stream management across manufacturing and supporting functions.
• Reviewing machining capacity, equipment utilisation and make-versus-buy decisions.
• Improving costing, operational reporting and accountability.
• Reducing rework and strengthening engineering-to-production handovers.
• Developing the leadership team and delivering sustainable change.
• Working with international colleagues to improve business performance.

You could be an established General Manager, Plant Manager or Operations Director, or a manufacturing leader ready to step into a broader role. This role has longevity and a career path that could take you all the way to C-Suite in a world-wide manufacturing business.

• You will bring:A strong record of career progression and increasing responsibility.
• Leadership experience in precision manufacturing, with practical knowledge of CNC machining.
• Enough technical understanding to challenge capacity and equipment decisions and establish shop-floor credibility.
• Evidence of measurable improvements in productivity, efficiency or profitability.
• Financial understanding covering cost, margin and working capital.
• Experience leading across functions, ideally with value stream responsibility.
• The confidence to challenge established practices, make decisions and bring people through change.
• The ambition and potential to progress into executive operations leadership.

• Experience in aerospace, defence or other specialist manufacturing sectors would be advantageous. Previous operational transformation or international manufacturing experience would also be valuable, but is not essential.