Senior Machine Shop Manager

Senior Machine Shop Manager – Based Poole

Competitive salary, excellent benefits and long‑term career progression.

This senior operational leadership role oversees machine shop operations, manufacturing performance, people development and continuous improvement. The incumbent manages a multi‑discipline team of more than fifty staff, ensuring efficient use of labour and equipment to produce high‑quality products on time while meeting health and safety requirements.

• Ensure all risk and COSHH assessments are in place.
• Contribute to strategy decisions, including budget planning and 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 in partnership with production engineering and operations teams.

• Excellent organisational and planning skills.
• Proven experience managing leading CNC machinery shop manufacturing operations.
• Strong lean manufacturing and continuous improvement background.
• Overall knowledge of machining processes, tooling, fixturing and CAM.
• Experience leading, coaching and developing technical teams.
• HNC / HND or higher in Mechanical, Manufacturing or Production Engineering (or equivalent experience).
• Confident communicator with strong organisational and stakeholder management ability.
• Demonstrate experience utilising continuous improvement tools such as VSM, SMED, TPM, Kaizen, 5S, Kanban and error‑proofing.
• Opportunity to modernise and shape a growing manufacturing operation.