Head of Manufacturing

**Role Overview** The Head of Manufacturing role combines strategic leadership with hands\-on operational control, ensuring alignment from tender through design, procurement, fabrication, assembly, and M\&E fit\-out. The focus is on driving programme certainty, operational efficiency, and scalable performance across all manufacturing sites. **Key Responsibilities** * Develop and own integrated planning processes across: Tendering, Design, Procurement, Production \& fabrication, Assembly \& modular build, M\&E fit\-out (multi\-site). * Ensure alignment between design release, procurement, and production sequencing * Deliver programme certainty across all live projects * Lead and align performance across multiple manufacturing and fit\-out sites * Standardise processes, reporting, and ways of working across all locations to optimise our operations * Balance workload and capacity across sites for maximum productivity * Define and implement operational KPIs across all departments that will maximise our operational planning and delivery * Ensure functional leads are delivering against those KPIs to maintain efficiency across operations * Monitor performance in real time and intervene to resolve risks and bottlenecks * Drive productivity improvements through planning, sequencing, and resource utilisation * Optimise the balance between cost, productivity, and delivery performance * Align manufacturing capacity and capability with forward project pipeline * Ensure resource planning supports growth without compromising delivery * Provide input into bid/tender decisions based on operational capacity and risk * Drive “right\-first\-time” culture across fabrication, assembly, and M\&E installation * Reduce rework, defects, and programme slippage * Implement continuous improvement initiatives across all operations * Work closely with design, procurement, production, assembly and commercial teams * Support early\-stage design and tendering to improve manufacturability and delivery efficiency * Champion improvements in modularisation, off\-site construction methods, and workflows * Introduce systems and tools to enhance planning, tracking, and reporting * Drive a culture of continuous improvement across all teams **Essential Skills \& Experience** * Proven leadership of multi\-site manufacturing operations in: * M\&E * Modular / offsite construction * Structural steel or similar project\-based industries * Strong expertise in **planning, sequencing, and programme delivery** * Ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels * Demonstrated success in driving productivity across operations * Strong influencing skills across senior leadership and cross\-functional teams * Minimum 10 years’ experience in relevant industries, with multi\-site responsibility