Operations Manager
Isembard
Operations Manager
Isembard
AI-driven distributed metal-component manufacturing
Isembard is rebuilding industrial capacity through a connected network of factories. We bring skilled people, advanced machine tools and our own software, MasonOS, together to make precision components for aerospace, defence, energy and robotics.
You will run operations in Hamburg from order to delivery: dates, throughput and material. We have two machines today and seven by April, plus guild partner factories and suppliers we do not own. You decide which job sits on which machine, what goes outside and what we promise.
Machining, engineering and quality are peer teams: you work with them, not over them. Your area is production control, goods in and goods out, and you report to the Head of Operations. You will be on the shop floor every day and shape the processes our German sites run on. A fit for someone who would rather own a plan than comment on it. The package includes equity.
Own on-time delivery and throughput: sequencing and loading every machine, planned in MasonOS.
Set delivery dates and hold them, including quick-turn work: quote in 12 hours, deliver in 3 weeks.
Run goods in, goods out and material flow, from bar stock and blanks to shipped parts.
Route work to guild partner factories and qualified suppliers, and hold them to our standard.
Report weekly on cycle times, utilisation, scrap and on-time delivery, and fix what it shows.
Operational leadership in production, at pace, with long lead times and small batches.
Scheduling and capacity planning you have done yourself, not delegated.
Experience managing suppliers and subcontractors, including escalation.
Systems thinking: capacity, constraints, sequence and throughput.
Fluent German and confident English: the shop floor runs in German, the group in English.
Useful, not essential: machining or another cutting process, EN 9100 or ISO 9001, aerospace, defence or energy, standing up a new line or a second site, or ERP or MES, lean or theory of constraints.
Applications in German or English are welcome. Lieber auf Deutsch? Hier bewerben.
Isembard is an equal opportunity employer.
Isembard is a London-based software-first manufacturing network that runs AI-powered factories to produce high-precision metal parts for aerospace, defence, energy, and robotics. It uses modular factory builds and a franchise model with MasonOS—the AI-native operating layer that handles quoting, CAD/CAM, procurement, scheduling, quality assurance and logistics across 5-axis CNC and robotic cells. Factories hold ISO 9001, Cyber Essentials and JOSCAR certifications. The company has raised a $9M seed and a $50M Series A to grow to about 25 facilities by late 2026 in the UK, US, Germany, France and Ukraine, serving both defence/autonomy startups and established OEMs, and sometimes managing complete supply chains for customers.
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