Operations Manager (m/w/d)

ABOUT ISEMBARD Isembard is rebuilding industrial capacity through a connected network of factories. We bring skilled people, advanced machine tools and our own software, MasonOS, together to make precision components for aerospace, defence, energy and robotics. THE ROLE You will run operations in Hamburg from order to delivery: dates, throughput and material. We have two machines today and seven by April, plus guild partner factories and suppliers we do not own. You decide which job sits on which machine, what goes outside and what we promise. Machining, engineering and quality are peer teams: you work with them, not over them. Your area is production control, goods in and goods out, and you report to the Head of Operations. You will be on the shop floor every day and shape the processes our German sites run on. A fit for someone who would rather own a plan than comment on it. The package includes equity. - Own on-time delivery and throughput: sequencing and loading every machine, planned in MasonOS. - Set delivery dates and hold them, including quick-turn work: quote in 12 hours, deliver in 3 weeks. - Run goods in, goods out and material flow, from bar stock and blanks to shipped parts. - Route work to guild partner factories and qualified suppliers, and hold them to our standard. - Report weekly on cycle times, utilisation, scrap and on-time delivery, and fix what it shows. WHAT YOU BRING - Operational leadership in production, at pace, with long lead times and small batches. - Scheduling and capacity planning you have done yourself, not delegated. - Experience managing suppliers and subcontractors, including escalation. - Systems thinking: capacity, constraints, sequence and throughput. - Fluent German and confident English: the shop floor runs in German, the group in English. - Useful, not essential: machining or another cutting process, EN 9100 or ISO 9001, aerospace, defence or energy, standing up a new line or a second site, or ERP or MES, lean or theory of constraints. Applications in German or English are welcome. Lieber auf Deutsch? Hier bewerben https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/isembard/b7c6a1e0-7de3-45df-925c-83eae8504df0. Isembard is an equal opportunity employer.