Job Description

Manager Utility and Maintenance

Our story goes back more than 150 years, to the chilly southern coast of Scandinavia. From our early success in Sweden and Denmark, we\'ve grown into the world\'s leading specialist producer of plant-based oils, employing more than 4,000 people all across the globe.

We work with our customers to make the products you love even better. The oils we produce go into making your chocolate extra-creamy or putting the crunch into your croissant. And it\'s not just food - we work across industries to make products that are higher quality, healthier and better for the planet.

Everything we do is about Making Better Happen\xe2\x84\xa2.

AAK Kakinada

Kakinada

About the role

Lead Utility and Maintenance is responsible for directing, managing and operating overall utility and maintenance operations by reliable and efficient ways to achieve site specific goals.

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• To ensure all plant failures are analyzed. Upkeep of plant SOPs and updating. Responding to plant problems all the time. i.e. 24 x 7 days.
• To measure, create and implement best practice maintenance vision, strategy, policies, processes, and procedures to aid and improve operational performance.
• To effectively ensure any maintenance issues to be resolved on each shift and small projects to the right skills in the team, planning and managing effective work.
• To specifically develop a Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) proactive maintenance schedule, ensure full preventative maintenance is carried out, plan in missed maintenance activities, and lead the team to

deliver effectively. * To ensure planning available, resources to meet budgeted production targets.

• To ensure relevant planning of shutdowns of utilities as per statutory and process requirements and to minimize downtime production plants due to Utility services / operations.
• To guide and coordinate inter-departmental team of engineers/Shift In-charges for planning of activities in major shutdown, preventive Plant Maintenance Planning in advance
• Mentor and manage the team leaders to ensure machine availability, reactively managing dysfunctional

machinery with the Shift management * Adhere to daily and weekly checks to ensure smooth operation of the plant.

• To ensure maximizing daily capacity utilization. Optimizing plant parameters to achieve budgeted Specific Consumption targets. Increase plant & machinery uptime. Fulfillment of SLA with all internal customers.

About you

• Degree of Engineering - Mechanical / Electrical
• 10- 15 years\' experience in Manufacturing Industry preferably FMCG / Vegetable Oils and Fat

About AAK

Everything AAK does is about Making Better Happen\xe2\x84\xa2. We specialize in plant-based oils that are the value-adding ingredients in many of the products people love to consume. We make these products better tasting, healthier, and more sustainable. At the heart of AAK\'s offer is Customer Co-Development, combining our desire to understand what better means for each customer, with the unique flexibility of our production assets, and a deep knowledge of many products and industries, including Chocolate & Confectionery, Bakery, Dairy, Plant-based Foods, Special Nutrition, Foodservice and Personal Care. Our 4,000 employees support our close collaboration with customers through 25 regional sales offices, 15 dedicated Customer Innovation Centers, and with the support of more than 20 production facilities. Listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and with our headquarters in Malm\xc3\xb6, Sweden, AAK has been Making Better Happen\xe2\x84\xa2 for more than 150 years.

AAK prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, religion, veteran status, and any other class of individuals protected from discrimination under state or federal law in any aspect of the access to, admission, or treatment of students in its programs and activities, or in employment and application for employment.

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