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Isembard

AI-driven distributed metal-component manufacturing

Operations Manager

Production Planning & SchedulingUpdated on Nov 12
Full-timeHamburg, Germany

About the Job

Requirements

  • Experience in operational leadership in production environments with high tempo, long lead times, and small batches.
  • Hands-on experience with scheduling and capacity planning.
  • Experience managing suppliers and subcontractors, including escalations.
  • Ability to reason in systems, including capacity, constraints, sequencing, and throughput.
  • Fluent German and English; the production floor operates in German and the wider group in English.

Responsibilities

  • Manage Hamburg operations from order to delivery, including scheduling, throughput, and materials.
  • Decide which orders are assigned to which machines, which work is outsourced, and which delivery commitments are made.
  • Own production control, goods receiving, and goods dispatch, while working daily on the production floor.
  • Plan machine sequencing and allocation in MasonOS to meet delivery reliability and throughput targets.
  • Set and meet delivery dates, including responding to quick-turn requests with quotations within 12 hours and delivery within three weeks.
  • Manage goods receiving, dispatch, and material flow from bars and raw parts through shipment of finished parts.
  • Route work to guild partner factories and qualified suppliers, and ensure they meet company standards.
  • Report cycle times, utilization, scrap, and on-time delivery weekly, and resolve problems.
  • Shape operational processes across the company's German sites.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in machining or another cutting process.
  • Knowledge of EN 9100 or ISO 9001.
  • Experience in aerospace, defense, or energy.
  • Experience building a new production line or second site.
  • Experience with ERP, MES, Lean, or Theory of Constraints.

About the Company

Isembard

AI-driven distributed metal-component manufacturing

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.

Company size
51-200
Company stage
Series A
Total funding
$59M
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Founded
2024

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