Machine Shop Team Leader in Poole

We are a global specialist engineering company that creates breakthrough solutions. We are curious and like to solve problems partnering with our customers to solve the demands of today and prepare for the challenges of tomorrow. We embrace innovation and care about outcomes that are good for business everyday life and making a better world creating lasting impact for everyone. We design, build and service highly engineered products in fluid and motion control applications. We focus on five market sectors: Industrial Automation, Process Automation, Climate Control, Life Science, and Fluid Control and Transport.

This role is responsible for managing colleagues working shift patterns ensuring that the business is delivering a high level of machine shop performance to achieve business KPIs. These patterns will include working outside of normal hours and therefore will require particular regard to ensuring health and safety considerations are met. The role will ensure that the machine shop is fully utilised using labour and resources available. This role is on Double Days Shift.

• Ensure that all risk and COSHH assessments are in place and up to date and that employees are informed of and understand those which are relevant to their area of responsibility.
• Work closely as part of the management team to ensure consistent approach is applied across all shifts.
• Lead and manage commensurate with a team leader role including but not limited to onboarding, setting targets and objectives, conducting appraisals and performance reviews to identify and support training needs.
• Handle employee relations matters such as overseeing absence management with timely return-to-work interviews and leave authorisation aligned with company policy. Managing underperformance, disciplinary and capability issues and addressing grievances ensuring appropriate communication and collaboration with line management and HR throughout.
• Ensure all individuals within the shift are competent to undertake designated roles and monitor performance.
• Where training is required, identify needs and liaise with line manager taking responsibility to ensure that appropriate training is delivered. Ensuring that training matrixes are in place and up to date.
• Work closely with Planning to ensure weekly targets are met and world class on time delivery (OTD) is maintained.
• Ensure Health and Safety and wellbeing of the team is managed.
• Ensure First Aid cover is provided at all times.
• Attend and support meetings when required as directed by management.
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of Lean tools and how they link to KPIs.
• Fully support / lead Continuous Improvement and Lean program demonstrating initiatives with consistent improvements and measurable results.
• Carry out and support investigation with root cause analysis such as accidents or near misses.
• Lead by example. Demonstrate best practice machining knowledge and problem solve machining issues.
• Take responsibility for site opening/closing and attend emergency call out when required.
• In conjunction with Production Engineers look to assist in best practice and Continuous Improvement of manufacturing methods/processes.
• Ensure daily start of shift team meetings are undertaken.
• Conduct toolbox talks.
• Fully understand and analyse Key Performance Indicators and their impact on the business performance and how to put improvements in place. Communicate/cascade to the team to ensure that daily/weekly/monthly targets are achieved.
• When required, attend management meetings providing concise and accurate information for management reports.
• In cooperation with line manager take responsibility for the recruitment of employees ensuring best practice and Company policies are adhered to. Build a winning Team.
• Monitor time and attendance and job bookings. Identify any issues and resolve.
• Ensure employees are working full shifts starting and finishing on time.
• Ensure all equipment, machines and areas are maintained to a high standard employing Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) for all major/critical items.
• Ensure quality targets are met and take the lead in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) events to understand cause and prevent re-occurrence. Evaluate the data for further improvements.
• Compile, maintain and ensure employees understand and adhere to all Standard Operating Procedures.
• Perform other such duties commensurate with the nature and level of the post as may be reasonably required.

• Demonstrable experience in people management.
• Good strong team player with the ability to influence others and lead a team.
• Able to provide direction to actively drive the team and processes to become a world class manufacturer.
• Thorough understanding of Health and safety requirements within the workplace.
• Extensive experience of setting and running machine tools.
• Able to demonstrate a positive attitude and work calmly under pressure.
• Excellent organisational, time management and planning skills.
• Strong team player with the ability to influence others and lead a team.
• Flexible with the ability to work to deadlines and the determination to see a job through to a satisfactory conclusion.
• Demonstrable experience in CNC programming.
• Strong PC skills able to use Microsoft office suite including but not limited to Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook.
• Strong communication skills both verbal and written (in English).
• Thorough understanding of Health and safety requirements in the workplace.
• Possess a sound understanding of modern (Lean) manufacturing methods and assembly techniques.
• Demonstrable experience of utilising Continuous Improvement tools and techniques eg VSM, SMED, TPM, Kaizen, 5S, Error proofing, Kanban.

Double Days shift pattern: Early Shift Mon‑Thurs 6am‑14:15 and Friday 6am‑12pm and then rotates to Late Shift Mon‑Thurs 2:15pm‑10:15pm and Fri 12pm‑7:30pm. 2 weeks early then two weeks lates.

IMI is an inclusive employer; diversity is very important to us and we want to receive applications from people from all backgrounds.