Operations Manager (m/f/d)

About Isembard

Isembard is building a network of high-performance factories for critical industries. We combine modern machine tools, robotics, and our proprietary software MasonOS to manufacture precision parts for companies in aerospace, defense, energy, and future technologies, with factories in the UK, USA, Germany, and France. Our mission: forge industrial acceleration.

The Role

Control operations in Hamburg: from order to delivery. Schedule, throughput, material. Today two machines, in April seven. In addition, partner factories of the Guild and suppliers that do not belong to us. You decide which order goes on which machine, what goes out, and what we commit to.

Machining, engineering, and quality are separate teams at eye level. You do not lead them, you work with them. Your area is manufacturing control, goods inward and goods outward, and you report to the Head of Operations. Suitable for someone who prefers to take responsibility for a plan rather than comment on it.

What You Are Responsible For

• On-time delivery and throughput: sequencing and allocation across all machines, planned in MasonOS.

• Set and meet delivery dates, even for rush requests: quote in 12 hours, delivery in 3 weeks.

• Goods inward, goods outward, and material flow, from bars and raw parts to shipped parts.

• Route work at Guild partner factories and qualified suppliers and keep them to our standard.

• Cycle times, utilization, scrap, and on-time delivery: reported weekly and addressed, not collected.

What You Bring

• Operational leadership in production: high pace, long lead times, small batches.

• Schedule and capacity planning done yourself, not delegated.

• Managed suppliers and subcontractors, including escalation.

• You think in systems: capacity, constraints, sequencing, throughput.

• Fluent German and English: The shop floor operates in German, the group in English.

Nice to Have

• Machining or another chip-forming process.

• EN 9100 or ISO 9001.

• Aerospace, defense, or energy.

• Building a new line or a second site.

• ERP or MES, Lean or Theory of Constraints.

Why Isembard

• Take responsibility for the plan of a rapidly growing factory.

• Safety-critical components for aerospace and defense.

• Shape processes that our German sites will operate by.

• Competitive salary and equity.

Location: On-site at our factory in Hamburg, in the workshop daily.

Isembard stands for equal opportunities. Applications in German or English are welcome.