Senior Machine Shop Manager – Based Poole - (Contribution relocation package available)
Excellent basic salary, bonus, matched contributory pension, life assurance, healthcare cash plan, 33 days holidays and many more, excellent 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