Purpose of the Role
As Asset Care Manager, you will be responsible for developing and implementing the end-to-end asset lifecycle strategy across our manufacturing operation. From design and installation through to commissioning, operation and continuous improvement, you will ensure our maintenance approach delivers safe, reliable and cost-effective performance.
This role sits at the heart of our Maintenance Engineering function and will play a key role in ensuring operational readiness as the facility transitions from construction into production. You will lead a team of preservation and improvement engineers, develop asset management roadmaps, and implement industry-leading reliability practices, including Condition Based Monitoring (CBM), AI-enabled maintenance tools and Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) methodologies.
Working closely with OEMs, project teams, operations and engineering stakeholders, you will ensure maintenance strategies, spare parts plans and asset management systems are established before assets enter operation, creating a world-class foundation for long-term manufacturing success
What you'll do...
- Develop and lead the site's Asset Care and Lifecycle Management strategy.
- Own the CMMS platform and governance framework, ensuring effective asset management processes are embedded across the business.
- Define and implement preventative, predictive and reliability-centred maintenance strategies.
- Develop and deploy AI and Condition Based Monitoring (CBM) solutions to optimise equipment performance and reliability.
- Lead asset criticality assessments and annual asset reviews.
- Create and deliver the departmental roadmap, supporting the journey towards operational excellence.
- Develop spare parts, inventory and critical component strategies aligned to asset risk and operational requirements.
- Manage reliability partners, service providers and maintenance-related contracts.
- Lead problem-solving and root cause investigations to improve asset reliability and reduce losses.
- Establish meaningful performance metrics and reporting frameworks, including leading and lagging KPIs.
- Provide leadership, coaching and direction to a team of asset care and improvement engineers.
- Support design reviews, FATs, commissioning activities and supplier engagements to ensure maintenance readiness from day one.
- Act as a key audit-facing representative and ensure compliance with safety, quality and regulatory requirements
The team you'll join...
You’ll join the Maintenance Engineering team, a critical function responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability and long-term performance of the assets that will power one of Europe's largest battery manufacturing facilities. The team is building the maintenance strategy, systems and standards that will support Agratas from first production through to full-scale operations.
Working alongside Reliability Engineers, Maintenance Managers, Operations leaders, OEM partners and project teams, you'll play a central role in establishing world-class asset management practices from the ground up. This is a highly collaborative environment where engineering expertise, innovation and continuous improvement are valued, and where you'll have the opportunity to influence how maintenance excellence is delivered across the entire site.
What you'll bring...
We're looking for an experienced maintenance, reliability or asset management leader with a passion for developing best-in-class engineering systems and strategies. You'll bring a blend of technical expertise, leadership capability and continuous improvement thinking, ideally gained within a high-volume manufacturing or regulated production environment.
You will ideally have:
- Significant experience developing and implementing asset management and maintenance strategies.
- Strong knowledge of CMMS systems and experience with platforms such as SAP, ERP, MES or equivalent maintenance management systems.
- Practical experience implementing Condition Based Monitoring (CBM), predictive maintenance and reliability improvement programmes.
- Understanding of Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) and asset lifecycle management principles.
- Experience leading engineering, reliability or maintenance teams.
- Strong problem-solving skills with experience applying structured root cause analysis methodologies.
- Experience managing contractors, suppliers and cross-functional projects.
- Strong commercial and financial awareness, with the ability to identify cost-saving and efficiency opportunities.
- Experience within battery manufacturing, FMCG, pharmaceutical, chemical, food and drink or other highly regulated manufacturing environments.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
- A passion for continuous improvement, operational excellence and engineering innovation
What you'll get...
As a new company, our reward scheme is constantly evolving. We continue to review the market to deliver a competitive benefits package, which currently includes private healthcare, company bonus, enhanced parental leave policy and a cash allowance to boost your benefits. We are a flexible business that is committed to promoting work-life balance, partnering with Yulife to provide our team members with total wellbeing support.
You’ll work in a rapidly scaling-up environment as a subsidiary of the multinational corporation, Tata Sons, to help build the UK’s biggest battery manufacturing facility and make your mark in a new organisation.
Agratas is a place to be authentically you. At Agratas we strongly believe that people are at their best when they feel supported and happy in their workplace. To that end we continue to cultivate a diverse workforce which protects the individuality of each team member. We therefore warmly welcome applicants from any race, gender, sexuality, and ability. Should you have a preference in how your suitability is assessed for this role or require any reasonable adjustments please let the Talent Acquisition team know.
