Associate Director, Operations Site Leader

Date Posted:

2026-10-23



Country:

United Kingdom



Location:

Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton



Position Role Type:

Onsite

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defence company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world.

Collins Aerospace is a leader in technologically advanced, intelligent solutions that help redefine the aerospace and defense industry. With a comprehensive portfolio and deep technical expertise, we help customers meet the demands of the global market. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defence.

The Associate Director, Operations Site Leader, Marston, UK provides overall leadership for manufacturing operations at the Wolverhampton, UK site.

The Wolverhampton site is a critical manufacturing and engineering footprint within Collins Aerospace Power & Controls. The site develops and produces advanced thermal management products including heat exchangers and fluid management components supporting commercial and military aircraft platforms.

This leader will have responsibility for a complex manufacturing organisation of approximately 550+ employees, including a significant direct-labor workforce, and will establish the strategy and operating plans necessary to achieve customer, operational, financial, and organisational objectives.

The Operations Site Leader will drive performance across EH&S, quality, delivery, cost, inventory, productivity, people, and continuous improvement, while leading the organisation through significant growth and operational transformation.

The successful candidate will be a highly visible operations leader who can translate business strategy into execution, develop organisational capability, and build the operating discipline necessary to deliver sustainable performance.

What You Will Do:

• Provide overall leadership and operational direction for the HS Marston (Wolverhampton) manufacturing site, ensuring strong performance across safety, quality, delivery, cost, and engagement.
• Establish and execute the site operating strategy, rhythm, and policies to meet business, customer, and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee production operations, including shop floor execution, workforce planning, scheduling, and disruption management.
• Drive operational excellence through cost reduction, productivity improvement, process optimisation, and disciplined problem solving.
• Lead the site's transformation agenda, improving throughput, capacity, cost per hour, and manufacturing efficiency.
• Ensure achievement of delivery commitments by directing production, scheduling, materials strategies, and resolving constraints across the value stream.
• Partner cross‑functionally with Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, Finance, and Program teams to strengthen performance and resolve issues.
• Build, develop, and retain a high‑performing operations organisation while fostering an inclusive, accountable, and empowered culture.
• Develop and execute long‑term site strategies for capacity, workforce, capital, technology, and infrastructure to enable future growth.
• Represent site operations in strategic reviews, customer engagements, and leadership forums, communicating performance, risks, and resource needs clearly.
• Must be wiling and able to travel up to 10% of the time

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Experience leading a large and complex manufacturing or operations organisation.

• Experience delivering measurable results across safety, quality, delivery, cost, inventory, and productivity.

• Experience developing and executing manufacturing or operational strategies.

• Experience leading significant operational transformation, continuous improvement, and/or production growth initiatives.

• Ability to connect operational performance to financial outcomes.

• Ability to lead and influence across multiple functions and organisational levels.

• Ability to communicate and present to all levels of the organisation

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Advanced degree in business, engineering, operations, or a related discipline.
• Experience within aerospace, defence, advanced manufacturing, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment.

• Experience leading a large operation with a significant direct-labor workforce.

• Experience with lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, CORE, or comparable operating-system principles.

• Experience leading capacity expansion, production ramp-up, or significant business growth.

• Experience managing complex value streams with challenging customer, material, engineering, and supply-chain requirements.

• Experience developing leaders, building organisational capability, and strengthening succession pipelines.

• Experience leading within a matrixed, global organisation.

What We Offer:

People are core to what we do. As such, we are committed to providing an industry leading benefits package. We offer a highly competitive salary, annual bonus, and many other benefits to include:

• Competitive base salary and benefits package
• 25 days annual leave, plus public holidays plus the option to buy / sell up to 5 days per year
• Generous Employer Contribution Pension Scheme with 2:1 matched contributions up to 10%
• Private Medical Insurance
• Health & Wellbeing Cash Plan - (dental/optical/therapy/chiropody/health screening)
• Life Assurance & Group Income protection scheme participation
• Employee Discounts & Flexible Benefits platform
• Support with professional fees
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Employee recognition schemes
• Opportunities for professional development and career growth
• and so much more!

Security Clearance:

This position may involve access to export-controlled information and hardware. Employment is subject to satisfactory security checks, export license approval, and, where required, completion of a non-disclosure agreement in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. 

Please ensure the role type defined below is appropriate for your needs before applying to this role. This position is classified as:

Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.]

Hybrid: Employees who are working in Hybrid roles will work regularly both onsite and offsite. Ratio of time working onsite will be determined in partnership with your leader.

Remote: Employees who are working in Remote roles will work primarily offsite (from home). If you live within a reasonable commute of an RTX site with other colleagues you interact with, your manager will discuss whether there is a degree of onsite presence associated with this role.

Candidates will learn more about role type and current site status throughout the recruiting process. For onsite and hybrid roles, commuting to and from the assigned site is the employee’s personal responsibility.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.  

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