Senior CNC Machine Shop

Senior CNC Machine Shop Manager – Based Poole

Excellent basic salary, bonus excellent benefits such as matched contributory pension, life assurance, healthcare cash plan, 33 days holidays, buy and sell holidays and many more,

This is a senior operational leadership role working for a global business who offer excellent career progression.

As a Senior Machine Shop Manager, you will oversee operations, manufacturing, production performance, people development, and continuous improvement and play a key role in taking overall responsibility for managing and leading a team and CNC machines shop manufacturing operation.

As Senior Machine Shop Manager you will 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 and demonstrate 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 also 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

* Strong Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement background 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

* Manage and provide and execute the Capex plan.

* 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