Operations Leader

Atomik AM; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Atomik AM is seeking an Operations Leader in the UK to own capacity planning, build dashboards and connect delivery to commercial outcomes.

You will align cross-functional teams, run stand-ups and sprints, and develop the R&D function while upholding the company’s mission of responsible manufacturing and sustainable growth.

Qualifications

• Experience leading operations on complex technical projects in manufacturing or engineering.
• Ability to build trust with R&D and commercial stakeholders.
• Proven track record of improving processes end-to-end.
• Willingness to listen first before implementing change.
• Bonus: start-up environment experience

Responsibilities

• Own capacity management: build dashboards and relay insight to leadership, commercial and financial functions.
• Coordinate activity across projects, programs and clients.
• Run stand-ups, sprints, programs and projects and manage the team’s output cadence.
• Line-manage the R&D team’s professional development.
• Bring a commercial mindset to delivery: participate in client calls and contribute to scope design.
• Raise standards for what good looks like and celebrate progress toward excellence.

Skills

Operations management

Project management

Stakeholder management

Continuous improvement

Start-up experience

Tools

Dashboarding

Job description

We're Atomik AM. We’re reshaping the world of advanced manufacturing and changing the way the world thinks about materials.

Ours is a new model for manufacturing businesses. Materials-led innovation, cutting-edge chemistry and solutions-based engineering delivering responsible manufacturing and sustainable choices.

It's a conscious commitment to reducing cost, waste and adverse social impact while raising manufacturing performance.

Why This Role Exists

We’re a team of eight, with a pipeline of new commercial work and a growing order book, we’re looking to scale and to build the systems that help us deliver. This role is the vital conduit between project delivery and commercialisation, managing, balancing and growing capability and capacity

We’re looking for someone to own operational effectiveness in the organisation, connecting activities to projects and aligning stakeholders around excellence so that the business can meet its ambition.

Join us as our new Operations Leader and help connect capacity to opportunity as we scale.

What We're Looking For

We're professional non-conformists, advocates of responsible manufacturing, sustainability and solutions-first thinking.

You're a solutions-focussed thinker and you’ve helped organisations bring clarity to projects, programs and functions. You can deliver operational improvement using multiple approaches. Internal and external stakeholders like and respect you because of your commitments, transparency and the energy you bring alongside your professionalism.

Like us, you prefer ownership, execution and delivery to titles and pure strategy.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Own our capacity management: build and maintain dashboards to relay insight to leadership, commercial and financial functions
• Coordinate activity across projects, programs and clients.
• Run stand‑ups, sprints, programs and projects and manage the team's output cadence
• Line‑manage the professional development of the R&D team
• Bring a commercial mindset to delivery: joining client calls when needed, contributing to scope design and looking for ways to grow contracts commercially alongside delivery
• Raise standards for what good looks like, celebrating each progress step towards great.

What You'll Bring

• Developed technical skills: Operations, Project or Program management experience across complex technical projects (ideally in Manufacturing or Engineering).
• Empathy and Excellence: You’re able to build trust with both an R&D team and commercial stakeholders while raising the bar
• Innovative, solution-focussed and energetic. Taking a holistic approach to vastly improve existing processes instead of fixing individual problems, you’re able to personally execute in the day-to‑day whilst thinking about longer term strategy.
• Self-aware, sponge mindset. Willing to listen and reflect before prescribing. We expect you to spend your first 30 days genuinely listening and observing before forming opinions and implementing change.
• Bonus: Experience in a start-up environment is a plus
• Bonus: An understanding of manufacturing processes, production planning, and how timelines actually play out on the shop floor would be a bonus

What We Offer

• A non-corporate working environment in a professional team focused on shared goals and values
• Real ownership both in equity and in responsibility
• An opportunity to play a key role in how the business delivers on its wider mission