Operations Team Leader

About This Role

Job Description We are seeking an experienced and driven Operations Team Leader to lead end‑to‑end operational activities, ensuring safe, efficient, and high‑quality delivery across the business. This role is critical in driving operational excellence, developing high‑performing teams, and ensuring customer commitments are consistently met through effective planning, coordination, and continuous improvement.

The Operations Team Leader will have responsibility across HSE, warehouse operations, logistics, inventory, production, application engineering, facilities, and people management, working closely with internal teams, suppliers and customers.

Reporting to the Customers Service Manager in this role you will be responsible for the output of the business, ensuring that products are shipped on time to customers request exceeding Rotork and Rotork customers’ expectation. Inventory management, exceedingly where possible targeted KPI targets. Manage third party suppliers with support of the GSS team ensuring component part delivery and quality meet Rotork expectation, where required supplier assessments to be completed.

In this role you will provide feedback to the Manager on eventual issue affecting the output that cannot be resolved autonomously. Manage visible controls such SQDCP boards, 5S, housekeeping standards, holidays. Set individuals within team SMART objectives in line with Rotork focus goals and ambition, ensure that the team is adequately trained to meet its objectives, support and develop teamwork, investigate and respond to minor accidents and NCRs.

This role would suit a determined problem-solver, who can think logically, optimize inventory levels consistent with KPI targets driven, promote a strong HSE culture across all operational activities, warehouse & inventory management by taking ownership of inventory control, accuracy, and optimization and manage relationships with logistics providers and service contractors.

Qualifications Experience Requirements:

• Preferable 5 years’ experience
• Educated to technical diploma level or above
• Trained in HSE, Lean and ISO standards
• Familiar with Microsoft Dynamics AX / 365
• Technical or Engineering Diploma (or higher qualification)
• Advanced knowledge of pneumatic actuators
• Strong understanding of the flow control industry
• Experience with Lean methodologies and operational excellence frameworks
• Experience with HSE implementation and compliance.
• Proven people management and leadership experience
• Fluent English

The Successful Candidate:

• Able to work with customers, suppliers and auditors
• Good communications skills/ able to facilitate across site and make things happen.
• Confortable in a matrix structure environnement.
• Analytical approach and medium term prospective
• Some travel to supplier will be occasionally required.
• Strong organizational, problem‑solving, and communication skills
• Ability to work effectively in a fast‑paced operational environment

Additional Information Rotork is the market-leading global flow control and instrumentation company, helping our customers manage the flow or liquids, gases and powders across many industries worldwide.

Our purpose is Keeping the World Flowing for Future Generations.

For over sixty years, the world has relied on us to create the things that keep everything moving. From oil and gas to water and shipping, pharmaceuticals and food- these are the flows on which our modern world depends.

Today we're respected and admired for our people, performance and products. Our success flows from our commitment to engineering excellence, and that's what we will always pursue, safely and sustainably.