Manufacturing Operations Lead (UK)

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Location: Factory based (London or Dallas)

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: Competitive

Equity: Benchmarked

You will sit at the centre of factory execution. Your role is to plan, coordinate and drive production logistics across machines, people and materials to ensure we hit quality and on-time delivery targets. You synchronise schedules, manage constraints, remove bottlenecks and ensure the shop floor runs at peak efficiency.

This is a high-leverage operational role in a fast-scaling distributed manufacturing network.

Build and manage daily and weekly production schedules across CNC machines and teams

Coordinate labour, materials, tooling and inspection capacity

Work closely with machinists, CAM programmers and quality engineers to ensure smooth job flow

Monitor throughput, machine utilisation, OTD and WIP levels

Identify bottlenecks using time studies and workflow analysis

Escalate and resolve production conflicts quickly and decisively

Ensure MasonOS data accuracy for scheduling and job tracking

Support new part introduction and ramp-up planning

Drive continuous improvement in factory layout, sequencing and logistics

Maintain clear communication between engineering, sales and operations

Experience in manufacturing operations, production planning or factory coordination

Strong understanding of CNC machining environments

Ability to think in systems: capacity, constraints, sequencing and throughput

Comfortable working on the shop floor in a fast-paced environment

Strong communication and coordination skills

High ownership mindset with bias for action

Experience with ERP/MRP systems

Familiarity with Lean Manufacturing or Theory of Constraints

Exposure to aerospace or defence production environments

Data-driven mindset with comfort analysing operational metrics

Competitive salary and equity

Direct impact on factory performance and customer satisfaction

Work inside a high-performance manufacturing environment

Opportunity to help scale a distributed industrial network from first principles

Fast progression as the business expands internationally

Isembard is on a mission to forge industrial acceleration. We enable faster and cheaper products to be made for critical industries by combining advanced machine tools, robotics and our proprietary software, MasonOS. The components we manufacture are used in aerospace, defence, energy and other strategically important sectors.

Our values:

If not now, when

Follow the five maxims

Humour and humility