Meritus Talent

MERITUS are recruiting for a Digital Site Operations Manager to join our client in supporting IT/OT site relationships and procedures. We are not looking for somone who has specialist hands on IT experience, but someone from an IT background who can be a focal point of digital organising for a leadership team. DIGITAL SITE OPERATIONS MANAGER - INSIDE IR35 - £35 PER HOUR - FILTON, UK - 9 MONTHS - SINGLE STAGE INTERVIEW PROCESS This is a high-impact Digital leadership role embedded within one of the UK's most advanced aerospace manufacturing environments. Based at the Filton Plant - home to A400M wing assembly, A350 gear beam production, Wing Technology Development Centre and Additive Manufacturing capability - you will act as the senior Digital partner to plant leadership. The Opportunity You will own the Digital relationship with Operations. Not as support. As a strategic enabler. You will shape and deliver the plant Digital roadmap, protect operational continuity, drive digitalisation, strengthen OT cybersecurity posture, and ensure Digital investment delivers measurable production value. This is a role for someone who understands that in aerospace manufacturing: Downtime is expensive. Cyber risk is operational risk. Legacy systems slow innovation. Governance matters. Change requires influence. What You Will Own Full Digital stakeholder leadership for the Filton Plant Site-level Digital roadmap aligned to production strategy Demand management and prioritisation Coordination of SAP, infrastructure, digital workplace and shopfloor deployments OT cyber maturity improvement Incident governance (RCA, PPS, MTTR reduction) Supplier performance management Legacy system decommissioning Digital4Operations community leadership You will operate at the intersection of: Operations Maintenance Cyber Security IT/OT Central Digital Product Lines What We're Looking For Strong background in Digital/IT leadership within industrial manufacturing Experience working in live production environments (aerospace preferred) Exposure to IT/OT convergence Understanding of operational cyber risk Proven stakeholder management at senior plant level Ability to challenge status quo and drive change