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Director of Manufacturing

  • Location

    Derby

  • Sector:

    Technical & Engineering

  • Job type:

    Permanent

  • Salary:

    £85,000 - £100,000

  • Contact:

    Eddie Smith

  • Contact email:

    e.smith@europrojects.co.uk

  • Job ref:

    ES:DOM

  • Published:

    22 days ago

  • Expiry date:

    2024-12-29

  • Consultant:

    Edward Smith

​Director of Manufacturing

  • Director of Manufacturing jobs role / Head of manufacturing jobs role.

  • Rare opportunity to have equity in a £28m t/o, 170 headcount, £4m+ EBITDA engineering / manufacturing  business

  • Aerospace and medical precision mechanical components

  • This Director of Manufacturing jobs role / Head of manufacturing jobs role will suit someone ambitious who wants to make that next step and have the chance to have equity and ownership of a medium sized, highly profitable business

  • Growth in last 12 months of 17%+. Highly successful business with very strong culture of friendliness and collaboration

  • Salary/package TBC ; likely to be £85,000 - £95,000 + 30% on top ; but future equity potential will make this opportunity highly attractive even to those in large businesses with excellent benefits. Newly created role so that is an approx. guide.  


Are you seeking Director of Manufacturing jobs role / Head of manufacturing jobs or Manufacturing Director jobs? Are you Midlands based and ambitious to work in a growing medium sized business? You will need experience of mechanical precision component manufacturing (any regulated industry is fine – aero, automotive, rail, oil & gas, nuclear etc)


Director of Manufacturing Candidate profile:

  • Ambitious - wanting to take that step from being an employee to being a business owner and have an equity stake in a highly profitable £28m t/o R&D focused engineering & manufacturing business

  • Must have some experience of mechanical precision component manufacturing (any regulated industry is fine – aero, automotive, rail, oil & gas, nuclear etc.)

  • You could be a Manufacturing Manager or Operations Manager looking to make the next step in your career

  • Alternatively you could be a more experienced Production Director, Manufacturing Director or Operations Director or possibly a Plant Manager

  • Data driven & good with IT. The Exec team are very IT driven and analytical; utilising IT systems to make things efficient and accurate is important

  • Collaborative – the business and people are friendly and committed. You will be a Manufacturing Director who engages in a nice way to lead the team (you will likely be a really good coach and lead in a collaborative manner)

  • Strategic but then we want to see examples of taking ownership and driving performance not just reporting. An ability to ‘cut through noise to key points and focus on execution


To apply please contact Edward Smith via email at Euro Projects Recruitment. Reference: ES:DOM


This Director of Manufacturing jobs role is based near Nottingham. Candidates could be located in the Nottingham, Derby, Leicester, Sheffield, Chesterfield, Mansfield or close to the Nottingham / Derby region.   


Please note that if you are not contacted within the next ten days then your application, on this occasion, has not been successful.  We thank you for taking the time to apply.