Global Head, Manufacturing - Scale Autonomous Defense Systems

UFORCE; Greater London; Remote; GBP 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

UFORCE in London seeks a Global Head of Manufacturing to build and lead a manufacturing capability turning battle-proven autonomous systems into high‑quality products at scale. You will unite teams across Portugal, Poole and the expanding US footprint behind a practical production strategy.

This is a hands‑on leadership role. You’ll establish operating discipline, capacity and leadership while staying close to the factory floor and delivery today.

Qualifications

• Track record delivering hardware into sustained production across multiple sites.
• Experience leading manufacturing across countries with site managers.
• Strong manufacturing engineering and industrialization judgment.
• Proven results improving yield, cycle time, or cost on the factory floor.
• Experience embedding quality and safety into production.

Responsibilities

• Own manufacturing delivery across contracted programs and establish achievable production plans.
• Build a resource-constrained global production plan across Portugal, Poole and US sites.
• Work with S&OP to align site capacity with the consolidated demand forecast.
• Shape the manufacturing footprint and investment roadmap with cross-functional leaders.
• Partner with Engineering, Product and Quality to prepare new products for production.
• Establish production controls for BOMs, work instructions and testing.
• Use production data to improve yield, cycle time, and unit cost.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain on material availability and supplier recovery.

Skills

Global manufacturing

Strategic leadership

Production planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

ERP systems

S&OP process

Job description

UFORCE in London seeks a Global Head of Manufacturing to build and lead a manufacturing capability turning battle-proven autonomous systems into high‑quality products at scale. You will unite teams across Portugal, Poole and the expanding US footprint behind a practical production strategy.

This is a hands‑on leadership role. You’ll establish operating discipline, capacity and leadership while staying close to the factory floor and delivery today.