Machine Shop Operative
Location: Storrington, West Sussex
Salary: £28,000 - £30,000
Hours: Monday to Friday
Contract: Permanent
If you’ve already got experience working around machinery and want a role where you can broaden your skills, learn new processes and build a longer-term career in engineering and manufacturing, this could be a really good move.
We’re recruiting for a Machine Shop Operative to join a specialist engineering manufacturer in Storrington.
This isn’t a basic production role where you’ll spend every day doing exactly the same thing. The Machine Shop supports a much wider engineering operation, producing and preparing components used within highly technical manufactured products.
There’s a good amount of variety across the department, and depending on your existing experience, you’ll have the opportunity to develop across different machinery and processes.
What you’ll be doing
Your day-to-day work could include:
Setting and operating production machinery
Working with press brake machinery
Operating punch press equipment
Waterjet cutting
Lamination processes
Brushing, finishing and preparing components
Washing manufactured parts
Loading and unloading machines
Changing tooling and carrying out basic machine setups
Following job sheets, drawings and manufacturing instructions
Completing dimensional and quality checks
Making basic machine adjustments
Supporting routine machine care and maintenance
Working closely with the wider production and assembly teamsYou won’t need experience across every machine or process listed above.
What matters most is that you’re already comfortable working in a manufacturing or engineering environment, understand safe working around machinery and have the practical ability to learn new processes.
What we’re looking for
We’d be interested in speaking with people from backgrounds such as:
Machine operating
CNC operating
Sheet metal
Press brake
Punch press
Waterjet
Fabrication
Engineering production
General manufacturingExperience with any of the following would be particularly useful:
Setting or adjusting machinery
Changing tooling
Basic machine setup
Reading job sheets or engineering drawings
Measuring and checking finished components
Basic fault-finding
Routine machine maintenance
Working to quality and production standardsYou don’t need to be a qualified machinist or CNC programmer.
A practical mindset, good attention to detail and a willingness to learn are far more important.
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 or one process, there’s scope to build experience across different areas of the Machine Shop and develop into more skilled manufacturing work over time.
The business produces components for highly technical applications, so the work has a bit more substance and variety than standard high-volume production.
It’s also a good opportunity for someone who wants somewhere they can settle, develop their skills and build a longer-term career.
If you’ve got machine operating, engineering or manufacturing experience and want to take the next step, apply and we’ll have an initial conversation about your background and the opportunity
