Manufacturing Operations Director

Health, Safety & Wellbeing: Provide visible leadership for health, safety and wellbeing, embedding a proactive safety culture and ensuring performance is measured, challenged and continuously improved.

Digitalisation & AI Leadership: Act as the executive sponsor for digital manufacturing and industrial AI, sponsoring scalable transformation programmes that embed automation, analytics, digital workflows and connected systems across manufacturing operations.

Future Manufacturing Strategy: Establish a smart manufacturing roadmap that connects people, processes, data and technology, while leading and growing business development.

Collaboration: Engage and support workflow processes across the overall business lifecycle, including R&D, Manufacturing, Project Delivery and Maintenance, ensuring our total solutions are safe, secure, ethical and commercially focused.

Manufacturing Excellence: Ensure safety-critical manufacturing and the efficient, reliable delivery of products to internal and external customers, with a clear focus on on-time, in-full performance.

Quality & Reliability: Maintain the highest standards of product quality, reliability and compliance, ensuring robust governance and continuous improvement across manufacturing processes.

Cost & Productivity: Drive cost competitiveness, productivity improvement and purchase savings through disciplined operational management and data-led decision-making.

Strategic Leadership: Define and lead the long-term manufacturing strategy, operating model and transformation agenda. Reporting to the Director of Operations, this role will be a key member of the Operations Management Team, influencing senior stakeholders and contributing to wider Rail Infrastructure priorities, investment decisions and business strategy.

Performance Leadership: Lead the function through strong, collaborative and accountable leadership, ensuring operational plans translate into safe, profitable and timely delivery.

Financial & Commercial Performance: Own the financial and operational performance of the manufacturing function, ensuring robust budget control, resource optimisation, customer confidence and effective resolution of contractual and commercial matters.,