Senior Operations Manager
23 Month Fixed Term Contract/Full Time: 35 hours per week
Salary: £65,000 - £72,000 + Benefits
Home based in England, Scotland or Wales with occasional national travel

We are looking for a Senior Operations Manager to help turn Enginuity's ambitions into real impact. This is a fantastic opportunity to lead a diverse portfolio of teams, projects and services, ensuring great ideas are translated into clear plans, strong governance and meaningful outcomes. Working across the organisation, you'll play an important role in driving continuous improvement, supporting growth and helping ensure our charity activities are well managed, evidence-led and making a lasting difference.

About the role

Working closely with the Associate Director of Charity Operations and Impact, the Senior Operations Manager will support the continued transformation of Enginuity by turning strategic priorities into clear delivery plans, reporting mechanisms and ways of working. You will provide leadership across the charity programme, ensuring activity is prioritised, aligned to strategy and delivered effectively.

You will oversee delivery across Enginuity's solutions, services, research and projects, helping to ensure resources, priorities and plans are aligned while supporting innovation and continuous improvement. Alongside this, you will lead and develop colleagues across the Technical Solutions & Research and Impact & Delivery teams, creating a collaborative and high-performing environment.

You will help ensure our products, services, research and projects are well scoped, prioritised, resourced and evaluated, with clear alignment to Enginuity's strategy, Theory of Change and agreed impact and commercial measures.

A key part of the role will be supporting business planning, performance reporting and future growth opportunities, ensuring activities deliver both charitable impact and long-term sustainability. You will also support good governance across the charity, providing oversight of risk, compliance, budgets, commissioning, supplier performance and delivery progress, ensuring clear visibility of performance, value for money and impact.

About you

You will have experience leading and developing high-performing teams and building strong relationships with colleagues and stakeholders. A strategic thinker, you'll be comfortable balancing priorities, identifying opportunities and risks, and making informed decisions within governance frameworks.

You will bring excellent planning, organisational and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex information into clear and practical updates. You'll be confident working across teams, influencing outcomes and supporting delivery in a complex environment.

You will be confident overseeing complex portfolios from planning through to delivery and evaluation, using data, insight and evidence to support good decisions and continuous improvement.

You will have experience overseeing programmes, projects, products or services, with knowledge of governance, compliance, risk management and performance reporting. Strong attention to detail, sound judgement and a continuous improvement mindset will be essential. Experience of the skills and education sector would be beneficial, particularly within engineering and manufacturing, charity impact environments, or organisations that use data and technology to enhance products and services.

About us

Enginuity Group is a dynamic organisation powered by two complementary forces: our industry-leading awarding organisation, EAL, and Enginuity, our innovation-driven charity.

EAL develops and maintains a wide range of high-quality qualifications and assessments to meet evolving industry demands and accelerate the transition to net zero. Alongside this, Enginuity focuses on tackling the UK’s engineering and manufacturing skills gap - using data-driven insight to boost productivity. Together, we’re shaping a future where engineering and manufacturing talent can thrive, and UK industry stays at the forefront of innovation.

Our Benefits and Culture

Remote/home-based working - our standard working hours are 35 per week, 9am until 5pm with a 1-hour lunch. Many of our team work flexibly, and we would be happy to discuss how flexible working could work for you and the business.
Annual Leave – You will start with 25 days annual leave, increasing to 27 days after two years’ service. You’ll also enjoy three additional paid days off between Christmas and New Year during our company shutdown. If you’d like a little more time to recharge, you can buy up to five extra days of holiday each year.
Wellbeing – Our healthcare cash plan helps you claim back everyday health costs equating up to £995 per year, and we have trained Mental Health First Aiders available for support. You’ll also get an annual voucher for a free flu vaccination, eyecare vouchers and access to free wellbeing resources and a wellbeing app.
Employee Assistance Programme –24/7 access to a free confidential helpline and access to up to eight structured counselling sessions.
Professional Development – We cover the annual membership fee for a relevant professional body and offer ongoing support from our Learning & Development team.
Financial Benefits – Make your salary go further with access to our Benefit Hub discount platform, offering exclusive savings across a wide range of well-known retailers. You’ll also benefit from financial wellbeing resources, webinars to help you stay on top of your finances, life assurance cover of x2 your salary, and pension contributions of 4.5%.
Family Friendly – We offer enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental, adoption and dependant policies.
Volunteer – Take paid time off to volunteer, whether supporting your local community or contributing to causes that matter to you.

Diversity, Equality, Inclusion & Belonging

We promote a supportive, inclusive workplace where everyone is valued and encouraged to be themselves. We actively welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We’re a member of the Association for Black & Minority Ethnic Engineers, hold Clear Assured Gold accreditation for our inclusive culture, and are a Menopause Friendly Committed Employer. As a Disability Confident Leader, we encourage applications from people with disabilities and are open to discussing reasonable adjustments throughout recruitment and employment.

Further information

If you have any questions, a request for further information, or would like to request this information in an alternative format, our Recruitment Team will be happy to help. Email us at recruitment@enginuity.org

As part of our commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion, you’ll receive our Equal Opportunities Survey. We’d greatly appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to complete it - it helps us monitor and improve our recruitment practices.

We’re unable to support UK relocation or to sponsor a visa for this role.

Depending on the volume of applications, the closing date for this position may be extended or brought forward.