Manufacturing Area Lead in Bridgwater

As Area Lead, you’ll take operational ownership of a defined manufacturing zone, ensuring production lines run safely, efficiently and in line with performance targets. You’ll oversee shift‑level delivery across safety, quality, delivery and cost, managing throughput, yield and uptime while responding quickly to issues on the shop floor. You’ll lead daily operations by ensuring pre‑shift readiness, monitoring real‑time performance data and driving immediate countermeasures where required. Acting as the first escalation point beyond Team Leaders, you’ll coordinate with Engineering, Maintenance, Quality and Logistics to resolve challenges and maintain flow.

Alongside this, you’ll play a key role in continuous improvement leading structured problem‑solving, driving process adherence and embedding lean practices to improve performance across your area.

You’ll be part of a fast‑paced, high‑tech manufacturing operation, working within a specific production zone such as Assembly, Electrode or Formation & Aging. You’ll lead Team Leaders and operators while working cross‑functionally with support teams to deliver consistent, high‑quality output.

What you’ll bring:

• Experience in a production leadership role within high‑volume, automated manufacturing, with a strong understanding of process control, quality standards and shop floor operations.
• Confidence leading people and developing Team Leaders, with the ability to coach, drive accountability and maintain high performance standards.
• Strong problem‑solving capability, with experience using tools such as 5‑Why, 8D or CAPA.
• Comfortable working with manufacturing systems (MES, ERP, SPC) and using data to inform decisions, with a proactive mindset focused on continuous improvement.

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.