Overview
Director of Operations Jobs in South Moravia, Czechia at CE Interim | Cross-cultural Executive Interim Management
Title: Director of Operations
Company: CE Interim | Cross-cultural Executive Interim Management
Location: South Moravia, Czechia
1361 | Interim Operations Leader – Ramp-up | Czech Republic
📍 Project Snapshot
Area: Operations
Location: Czech Republic 🇨🇿
Duration: 3–6 months
Start: June 2026
Type: Interim
🏢 About Our Client
Our client is a Private Equity-backed industrial technology manufacturer with more than 700 employees and a substantial production base in the Czech Republic.
The business serves demanding international customers across industrial, defence-related, and high-performance engineering sectors.
Following a sharp increase in defence-related orders, the company now needs interim operational leadership to increase output, improve productivity, strengthen shopfloor discipline, and maximise manufacturing capacity during a critical growth phase.
This is a 3–6 month interim operational performance improvement mandate reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer.
🎯 Job Challenge
- Lead a sizeable CNC machining and mechanics production area
- Improve output, machine utilisation, labour efficiency, workflow, changeovers, and daily management routines
- Strengthen KPIs, shift discipline, escalation routines, and frontline accountability
- Unlock hidden capacity from the existing organisation and reduce hiring pressure
- Work alongside operational excellence support and lean management consultants, converting improvement plans into sustainable execution
- Support the permanent Operations Manager to enable succession and continuity planning
- Collaborate with production, quality, planning, HR, transformation, and senior leadership teams
🧠 Manager Skills
- Proven experience leading large CNC machining or precision manufacturing operations
- Track record delivering operational turnaround, productivity improvement, and capacity optimisation programmes
- Strong expertise in operational excellence, KPI deployment, daily management systems, and performance management
- Experience improving machine utilisation, labour productivity, throughput, changeovers, and workflow efficiency
- Previous exposure to Private Equity-backed businesses, transformation programmes, or high-growth industrial organisations
- Ability to work effectively alongside operational excellence teams while retaining ownership of operational delivery
- Strong leadership and coaching skills with experience in developing production and operations management teams
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage shopfloor teams, senior leadership, and investors
- Fluent in Czech required, English highly advantageous
✅ Key Requirements
Requirement 01: Strong experience in CNC machining and precision manufacturing operations
Requirement 02: Proven track record in operational turnaround, productivity improvement, and capacity optimisation
Requirement 03: Strong operational excellence background, including daily management, KPI discipline, and shopfloor execution
Requirement 04: Fluent in Czech, with the ability to lead effectively on-site in a fast-moving manufacturing environment
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