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In this role, you will build, mentor and lead a high-performing management team to deliver operational excellence across our seven key systems: Safety & 5S, Output, Flow, Quality, People, Commerciality, and Equipment.\nAbout the position:\nSalary up to £75,000 , depending on experience\nThis position is based onsite 5 days a week at our offices in Manvers, Rotherham.\nMonday to Friday, 40 hours per week\nReporting to our Operations Director\nKey Responsibilities & System Ownership\nSafety & 5S\nEnsure the 5S and Safety system is healthy in all areas with a constant process of reviews and audits.\nChampion a safety first culture across ensuring issues are resolved quickly\nEmbed continuous 5S standards to maximise workplace safety, visual management, and productivity.\nOutput\nDrive performance against daily, weekly, and monthly targets.\nManage a team of supervisors to ensure they are delivering consistent output in their areas of responsibility.\nManage shift capacity and resource planning to support peak volume demands while achieving on time delivery.\nFlow\nEstablish repeatable processes to ensure there is a constant flow of work to finishing operations.\nMonitor time through process and remove bottlenecks to ensure work consistently flows.\nManage sequencing through to ensure the right jobs are completed in the right sequence and delivered to the customer on time.\nQuality Assurance\nEnsure right-first-time quality by embedding robust in-process checks and ensuring actions are taken where processes drift out of tolerance.\nAnalyse quality non-conformances, root-cause failures and implement permanent corrective actions.\nEnsure specialists are actively solving technical issues that cause quality defects.\nPeople & Leadership\nBuild and develop a high-performing team.\nBuild a culture of accountability, performance coaching and cross-training.\nEnsure all processes and people have a secondary role to build resilience.\nCommerciality\nManage operational budgets, driving down cost-per-unit through efficiency gains, waste reduction and labor utilisation.\nCollaborate with procurement and finance teams to improve profitability and reduce unit cost.\nEquipment\nBuild a culture where equipment is well maintained by operators.\nEnsure all machines are available to run and work with Engineering to resolve any issues when they arise.\nEstablish robust Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) routines.\nPerson Specification\nRequired Experience & Skills\nOperational Leadership: Proven track record running high-volume manufacturing operations.\nLean Manufacturing: Practical experience deploying Lean toolkits e.g. 5S.\nPeople Management: Demonstrable success in restructuring or building high performing teams and managing change.\nKey Behaviours\nDecisive & Results-Driven: High energy with a clear bias for action and delivery under pressure.\nAnalytical: Uses data to root cause operational challenges.\nCollaborative Communicator: Able to influence effectively at all levels, from shop floor operators to executive leadership.\nProcess Driven: Establishes new processes that repeatedly deliver results.\nWhy Join the Bluetree Team?\nAt Bluetree Group, we don’t just print; we innovate. We believe in investing in the people who make our success possible. Here’s how we look after you:\nHealth First: Access to a marketing leading Health Cash Plan and comprehensive wellbeing support, including onsite training and access to free external support.\nFamily Support: Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption packages to support your life outside of work.\n Rest & Recharge: 22 days annual leave (plus Bank Holidays), with a \"Length of Service\" program that earns you more days the longer you stay.\nSocial: From regular team socials to our legendary annual Summer and Christmas Parties, plus biennial Long Service celebrations; we know how to celebrate success.\nFinancial Wellness: Enrolment in our company pension scheme.\nRewards: Access to various discounts via Bluetree Rewards, weekend break giveaways, and long-service gifts to mark your milestones, starting from year 1!\nCareer Development: We champion personal development with a wide range of internal and external training opportunities available.\nFitness: Save on a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme, or join our weekly football team to burn off some steam!\nDaily Comforts: Fuel your day with free fruit, snacks, and beverages in our modern canteen.\nEasy Commute: Free onsite parking at our state-of-the-art facility. We are also ideally located for public transport, just minutes from Mexborough, Swinton, and Wombwell train stations.\nAbout Bluetree Group\nWe exist to make print buying easy and small businesses look exceptional. Established in 1989, Bluetree Group has grown to be the UK’s largest online printer. Based in Wath Upon Dearne (conveniently located near Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, and Doncaster), our 165,000 sq. ft. facility is the heart of our operation. From the moment you walk through our doors, you’ll realize that our people are central to everything we do.\nReady to grow with us?\nFor Privacy information please follow this link to our privacy notice on our website under the home page https://www.bluetreegroup.co.uk","description_format":"text","description_chars":5384,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Annual leave"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-13T17:26:30Z"}],"liveness":{"score":72,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.795,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":20,"expected_fill_days":38,"reasons":["conf:5","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":99643,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/bluetreegroup-head-of-operations","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/bluetreegroup-head-of-operations.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-25T04:26:12Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4795,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":205,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-26T00:00:00Z"}}}