Machine Shop Operative

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.

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.

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.

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.