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. Candidate Skills * 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 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. * Opportunity to modernise and shape a growing manufacturing operation Strong investment in people, technology, and improvement. * Demonstrate experience of utilising continuous improvement tools and techniques such as VSM, SMED, TPM, Kaizen, 5S, Kanban and Error Proofing Some of the key responsibilities * 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