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Operations Manager

Novanta Inc., USA
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
On-site
Manager or above
2 months ago
  • Lean
  • Risk Management
2 months ago
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Build a career powered by innovations that matter!  At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible.  We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.

Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.  Looking for a great place to work?  You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment.  Come explore Novanta.

Operations Manager – Robotics & Automation

đź“Ť Cambridge, United Kingdom

Help build the technologies that are transforming our world.

At Novanta, our innovations power cutting-edge advances inrobotics, medical technology, and advanced manufacturing — improving lives and enabling the next generation of precision-engineered solutions. As a trusted global technology partner, we design and deliver high-performance components used inmission-critical applications, from minimally invasive surgery to 3D printing.

We are now looking for an experiencedOperations Manager to lead manufacturing operations for ourRobotics & Automation Inductive Encoder product line in Cambridge. This is a highly visible leadership role with the opportunity to directly influence performance, culture, and scalability in a complex, high-tech environment.

The opportunity

This role offers the chance to take ownership ofday-to-day manufacturing operations, ensuring delivery acrosssafety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost objectives—while driving ongoing improvement in how we operate.

You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, quality, supply chain, and commercial functions, to solve real operational challenges and continuously improve performance.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys:
  • Leading from the front in ahands-on operational environment
  • Drivingcontinuous improvement and lean initiatives
  • Building strong, accountable, and high-performing teams
  • Working onprecision products with real-world impact

What you will be doing

Leadership & Team Development

  • Lead, coach, and develop production teams
  • Create a high-performance culture focused on accountability and engagement
  • Ensure effective staffing, training, and capability building

Operational Excellence

  • Manage daily manufacturing operations in ahigh-mix, engineered products environment
  • Deliver against key metrics across safety, quality, delivery, inventory, productivity, and cost
  • Ensure production plans align with capacity, materials, and customer demand

Continuous Improvement

  • Drive improvement initiatives using theNovanta Growth System and lean principles
  • Improve workflow, reduce waste, and enhance productivity and quality
  • Use data and metrics to identify gaps and implement sustainable solutions

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Partner with engineering, supply chain, planning, and quality teams
  • Remove operational barriers and improve end-to-end flow
  • Support problem-solving across the value chain

Supply Chain & Risk Management

  • Support material availability and inventory optimisation
  • Identify and mitigate operational and supply risks impacting delivery

What we are looking for

  • Proven experience inoperations or manufacturing leadership (typically 7+ years)
  • Experience leading teams inhigh-mix or engineered product environments
  • Strong understanding of operational KPIs across quality, delivery, and cost
  • Demonstrated success withlean, continuous improvement, or business system frameworks
  • A collaborative mindset with the ability to influence across functions
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills

Experience inprecision engineering, electronics, or electromechanical manufacturing would be highly advantageous.

Why join Novanta?

  • Work on technologies that make areal impact on people’s lives
  • Be part of aglobal, innovative organisation at the forefront of advanced manufacturing
  • Lead meaningful change in an environment that valuescontinuous improvement and ideas
  • Collaborate with talented teams across engineering, operations, and commercial functions
  • Opportunity forcareer growth across international markets

Ready to make an impact?

If you are an experienced operations leader looking to take ownership in ahigh-tech, fast-evolving manufacturing environment, we would love to hear from you.Apply now or reach out to Rebecca Pelham for a confidential conversation.

Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.

Please call +1 781-266-5700 if you need a disability accommodation for any part of the employment process.

Operations Manager · Novanta Inc., USA

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