Senior Machine Shop Manager

Senior Machine Shop Manager – Based Poole

Competitive salary and excellent benefits and long-term career progression

This is a senior operational leadership role which oversees operations, manufacturing, production performance, people development, and continuous improvement.

As Senior Machine Shop Manager you will player a key role within operations and manufacturing and have overall responsibility for managing and leading a team to ensure the smooth workflow is achieved utilising labour and equipment effectively to efficiently produce a high-quality product delivered on time whilst complying to health and safety requirements.

As Senior Machine Shop Manager, you will demonstrate the ability to manage a team of fifty plus staff strong coaching and performance management skills.

You will take full ownership of a multi-discipline machine shop operation, managing production engineering, CNC machining, and manufacturing performance. You will be responsible for driving safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost performance while modernising processes and building a high-performance team culture.

Continuous improvement is paramount, so a thorough understanding of lean tools and how they link to KPI’s, using this information to proactively focus on driving the team.

• Excellent organisational and planning skills
• Proven experience of managing leading and CNC machines shop manufacturing operation.

Strong Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement background Strong Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement capability.

• Overall knowledge of machining processes, tooling, fixturing, and CAM

HNC / HND or higher in Mechanical, Manufacturing or Production Engineering (or equivalent experience)

Confident communicator with strong organisational and stakeholder management ability.

• Opportunity to modernise and shape a growing manufacturing operation

• Demonstrate experience of utilising continuous improvement tools and techniques such as VSM, SMED, TPM, Kaizen, 5S, Kanban and Error Proofing

• Ensure that all risk and COSHH assessments are in place.
• Proactively contribute to the overall strategy decisions, including budget planning, production improvement
• Lead and develop CNC machining and production engineering teams.
• Drive safety, quality, delivery, and productivity performance.
• Manage capital investment, equipment strategy, and technology adoption.
• Oversee new product introduction and design-for-manufacture activities.
• Implement Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement programmes.
• Optimise CNC programming, CAM usage, tooling, and fixturing strategies.
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective action programmes.
• Manage and drive introduction of new products working closely with production engineering and the machine shop and operations team