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:
- Downtime is expensive.
- Cyber risk is operational risk.
- Legacy systems slow innovation.
- Governance matters.
- Change requires influence.
What You Will Own
- 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
- Digital4Operations community leadership
You will operate at the intersection of:
- Operations
- Maintenance
- Cyber Security
- IT/OT
- Central Digital Product Lines
What We’re Looking For
- 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
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