Operations Manager

Company: Impact Recruitment Services
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Location: Kettering
Job Description:

Impact Recruitment are currently recruiting for an experienced Operations Manager who has experience running day to day business operations for a manufacturing business. This role will be responsible for managing full projects from initial orders to full completion.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward thinking family run business where you’ll be able to drive business efficiency.

Salary: £55,000 – £65,000 (depending on operational management experience)

Hours: Monday to Friday 8am-4:30pm

Location: Kettering

Responsibilities

  • Manage the day-to-day operational workflow
  • Ensure projects progress efficiently from order confirmation through to completion
  • Coordinate job schedules, installation dates and production priorities
  • Manage workloads across CAD, fabrication and installation teams
  • Identify potential delays, operational issues and bottlenecks, taking proactive steps to resolve them
  • Ensure all relevant information is available before jobs progress to the next stage
  • Maintain accurate job records and provide regular operational updates to senior management
  • Oversee outstanding and incomplete jobs, ensuring every issue is tracked, allocated and resolved through to final completion
  • Manage and direct a team to support them achieve targets
  • Oversee a full site and operation

Essential Skills & Experience

  • Proven experience in an operations, project management or technical management role
  • Strong technical knowledge and manufacturing processes experience
  • Confident working knowledge of AutoCAD
  • Proven scheduling and workload management experience
  • Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously
  • Strong understanding of technical drawings, dimensions and specifications
  • Experience dealing directly with customers, suppliers and installers
  • Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities
  • Experience managing remedial works, complaints and incomplete projects
  • Understanding of Health & Safety requirements within a manufacturing
  • Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • The ability to take ownership, follow through and ensure jobs are completed properly

Personal Attributes

  • Technically minded and commercially aware
  • Proactive, organised and methodical
  • Confident making decisions and resolving problems
  • Comfortable managing different teams and personalities
  • Customer-focused without compromising technical standards
  • Able to work under pressure and manage competing priorities
  • A strong communicator who ensures information is passed on accurately
  • Accountable and committed to seeing projects through to completion
  • Practical and hands-on, with the ability to understand issues on the factory floor and on site
  • Committed to improving operational efficiency and customer experience

Impact are working on behalf of a client as an Employment Business

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Posted: October 11th, 2026