Digital Site Operations Manager

Digital Site Operations Manager - Inside IR35 - £35 PER HOUR - Filton, UK - 9 months - Single stage interview process

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 someone 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.

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.

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.

• Downtime is expensive.
• Cyber risk is operational risk.
• Legacy systems slow innovation.
• Governance matters.
• Change requires influence.

• Full Digital stakeholder leadership for the Filton Plant.
• Site-level Digital roadmap aligned to production strategy.
• Demand management and prioritisation.
• Coordination of SAP, infrastructure, digital workplace and shopfloor deployments.
• OT cyber maturity improvement.
• Incident governance (RCA, PPS, MTTR reduction).
• Supplier performance management.
• Legacy system decommissioning.
• Digital4
  
  Operations community leadership.

• Operations
• Maintenance
• Cyber Security
• IT/OT
• Central Digital Product Lines

• Strong background in Digital/IT leadership within industrial manufacturing.
• Experience working in live production environments (aerospace preferred).
• Exposure to IT/OT convergence.
• Understanding of operational cyber risk.
• Proven stakeholder management at senior plant level.
• Ability to challenge status quo and drive change.