Senior Manager - Maintenance

The primary focus of this role is to ensure the effective maintenance and reliability of plant machinery, utilities, and infrastructure through preventive, predictive, and breakdown maintenance activities.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Ensure maximum machine and utility uptime through effective preventive, predictive, and breakdown maintenance practices.
• Monitor and improve key maintenance KPIs such as OEE, MTBF, MTTR, and VED machine availability targets.
• Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis (RCA) to quickly resolve equipment failures and implement sustainable corrective and preventive actions.
• Plan, monitor, and maintain critical spare parts inventory to ensure minimum production downtime.
• Coordinate with Production, Procurement, Stores, and Engineering teams for maintenance planning, machine procurement, installation, and commissioning activities.
• Ensure compliance with ISO 9001, ISO 14001, safety standards, statutory regulations, and best practices.
• Prepare and control the maintenance budget, monitor maintenance costs, and improve overall equipment reliability.
• Lead, train, and develop the maintenance team while ensuring timely documentation and data reporting.
• Oversee maintenance of production equipment such as CNC Bending Machines, Power Presses, TPP Machines, MIG Welding, Arc Welding, and Assembly Machines.
• Maintain and manage plant utilities including STP, ETP, RO Plant, DG Sets, Air Compressors, Fire Hydrant Systems, and Electrical Infrastructure.
• Ensure optimum utilization of energy, water, oil, and other resources by implementing cost-saving and waste-reduction initiatives.
• Ensure a safe working environment by identifying and eliminating machine-related hazards, maintaining machine guards and safety interlocks, conducting safety audits, and enforcing safe work practices to achieve zero accidents and zero harm to employees.
• Co-ordinate with purchase/stores for indention/revision of purchase order from different materials.

Functional Competencies

• Operational and functional understanding of different types of machinery and utilities.
• Knowledge of electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic drawings, etc.
• Ability to remain calm in critical situations
• Data analysis and reporting skills
• Interpersonal effectiveness

Qualifications, Role Specific Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor degree in Engineering with electrical/instrumentation/electronics specialization
• Relevant work experience of 5 - 10 years in a similar setup
• Experience of working with FTM software and PLC.
• Complete operating and functional understanding of machines like injection moulding, laser making, pouch forming, inkjet printing, TTO printing, PAD printing, etc.
• Experience in handling of utilities like D.G. set, chillers, compressors, dryers, etc.
• Highly proficient in using MS-Office applications like excel, word and power-point, ERP and AutoCAD)
• Excellent communication and presentation skills