Location: West Sussex
Salary: £28,000 - £30,000
Hours: Monday to Friday
Contract: Permanent
If you’re already comfortable around machinery but want a role where you can learn more, work across different processes and build a longer-term career in manufacturing, this could be a very good move.
We’re recruiting for a Machine Shop Operative to join a specialist engineering manufacturer based in Storrington.
This isn’t a basic production role where you’ll stand on one repetitive process all day. The Machine Shop supports a much wider engineering operation, producing and preparing components that feed into highly technical manufactured products.
You’ll have the opportunity to work across a range of machinery and processes, with training provided depending on your existing experience.
What you’ll be doing
Your day-to-day work could include:
Setting and operating production machinery
Working with press brakes
Operating punch press machinery
Waterjet cutting
Lamination processes
Brushing and finishing components
Washing and preparing manufactured parts
Loading and unloading machines
Changing tooling and completing basic machine setups
Following job sheets, drawings and manufacturing instructions
Carrying out dimensional and quality checks
Making basic machine adjustments
Supporting routine machine care and maintenance
Working closely with the wider production and assembly teams
You won’t necessarily need experience across every machine listed above.
The important thing is that you’re already comfortable within a manufacturing or engineering environment, understand how to work safely around machinery and have the practical ability to learn new processes.
What we’re looking for
You could come from a background such as:
Machine operating
CNC operating
Sheet metal
Press brake
Punch press
Waterjet
Fabrication
Engineering production
General manufacturing
We’d particularly like to speak with people who have experience with some of the following:
Setting or adjusting machinery
Changing tooling
Reading job sheets or basic engineering drawings
Measuring or checking finished components
Basic fault-finding
Routine machine maintenance
Working to quality standards
You don’t need to be a qualified machinist or CNC programmer.
A practical mindset, good attention to detail and the willingness to learn will go a long way.
Why consider it?
This is a chance to join a well-established specialist engineering business with a large manufacturing site and a strong focus on training and development.
Rather than being limited to one machine, there is scope to build experience across different areas of the Machine Shop and develop into more skilled manufacturing work over time.
You’ll be joining a business producing components for highly technical applications, so the work has a bit more substance to it than standard high-volume production.
The company also has a strong track record of developing people internally and is looking for people who want somewhere they can genuinely settle and progress.
If you’ve got machine operating, engineering or manufacturing experience and want to build on it, apply and we’ll have an initial conversation about your background and the opportunity
Salary description
£28000.00 - £30000.00 per year