Manufacturing Operations Manager

Ref: LRA366
Job Type: Permanent
Salary: £65,000 to £75,000pa
Location: Spennymoor, Durham
Closing Date: 24/04/2026

Job Description

The Role:

Our client is a market leading international organisation with market leading products and a considerable manufacturing footprint in the North East, which has seen sizable investment over a number of years. They are currently looking to strengthen their operations leadership team with the appointment of an experienced Manufacturing Operations Manager.

Responsible for leading operations across a complex manufacturing environment, with specific focus on health and safety culture, increasing efficiency, reducing cost and the cost of poor quality, delivering productivity performance and ensuring on-time delivery of quality products to their customers. The role with provide inspiring leadership through a team of experienced managers within a multi-shift production and warehouse facility, ensuring customer requirements are fully satisfied whilst operating within budgeted expenditure levels and facilitating structured improvement objectives.

The Person:

Candidates should have demonstrable experience and success leading within a fast moving, highly technical Manufacturing environment. With a recognised technical, operations or supply chain qualification, candidates should be self starters with an inspiring leadership style and a drive for improvement in a safety first environment.

GEM Partnership are acting as an employment agency on this vacancy.