Job Description

Key Purpose of the Job (Position Summary)This position is responsible to ensure effective up keep and maintenance of all electrical and instrumentation equipment at the plant to ensure maximum equipment availability and minimum downtime on account of breakdown. The role incumbent shall lead a team of Electrical and Instrumentation engineers to ensure all maintenance jobs are completed as per schedule and within the defined budget.KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

• Adherence to maintenance schedule and maintenance budget
• Quality of maintenance work done including innovations
• Reduction in repetitive breakdown occurrences (Hours and Instances)
• Reduction in cost of maintenance (Stores, spares and repair maintenance cost)
• Reduction in energy cost (Power ratio)
• PM Effectiveness
• Plant safety and environment
• Improvement initiatives (SPARSH Machine, Kaizan, Hira etc.)
• Compliance as per statutory standards for electrical installations and weights & measures

KEY ACTIVITIES & RESPONSIBILITIESPlanning & Budgeting

• Plan the annual maintenance schedule and activities for all electrical and instrumentation section in consultation with Plant Chief Engineer
• Participate in preparation of the annual maintenance budget by providing inputs for the electrical and instrumentation section
• Provide inputs for the procurement plan for electrical and instrumentation sections covering requirement for consumables, spare parts, maintenance supplies and tools

Maintenance OperationsPlanned Maintenance

• Work with the team to schedule and prioritize work orders to ensure optimum utilization of resources and minimum disturbance to production activities
• Manage and supervise all the maintenance activities undertaken by the electrical and instrumentation team to ensure the same is as per the maintenance schedule and budget and is of high quality
• Work closely with other departments to ensure maintenance schedules are adhered to without disruption of production targets
• Prepare schedule for maintenance activities during shutdown and ensure proper execution of the same as per shutdown schedule
• For equipment covered under AMCs, ensure regular maintenance is done by the vendor in accordance to the terms and conditions agreed in the AMC

Breakdown Maintenance

• Prioritize breakdown repair jobs as per criticality to the production process
• Ensure the team provides timely and effective break down maintenance support for any of the electrical and instrumentation systems at the plant
• Review any major breakdowns in electrical and instrumentation systems to assess the scope of repair work required, cost for the repairs and other resources required
• Oversee any major breakdown repair work to validate the quality of the work done and ensure minimum repetition of similar incidents
• Ensure that the team prepares SOPs for any break down repairs and maintenance for reference in future occurrences.
• Provide technical guidance to the team for complex repairs and issues

Procurement

• Regularly monitor availability of spares and work with the team to ensure optimum inventory of spares for the section
• For any new spares or material prepare technical specification and provide same to procurement team post approval from Chief - Engineer
• Work with the procurement team in evaluating vendors and shortlisting as required
• Review and validate technical terms and conditions of agreements with vendors

Others

• Ensure the team adheres to the company\'s maintenance standards, norms and laid down policies
• Where required liaison with the statutory bodies and government authorities for any statutory compliances related to the electrical and instrumentation section in the plant
• Resolve any coordination issues the team may face with other departments to ensure maintenance work does not get hampered
• Drive improvement initiatives such as QIP\'s, Kaizen, Muri - Mura etc. for the team

Cost Management

• Monitor maintenance expenditure to ensure compliance to the budget
• Monitor consumption of all consumables and spares
• Monitor and report power consumption at the plant, department wise and suggest measures for power saving
• Ensure all maintenance jobs done by the team are undertaken with optimum use of resources and minimum wastage
• Identify areas for cost saving in the electrical and instrumentation section and recommend action plan to achieve the saving

Projects

• Ensure all maintenance related jobs for any major plant wide improvement projects / capex projects are completed in time - such as new machine installation, replacement, etc.

MIS & Reporting

• Ensure records of all service, maintenance and refurbishing works carried out in electrical and instrumentation section are maintained
• Ensure records of all electrical equipment history maintained
• Review SAP regularly to ensure accuracy of data and information regarding maintenance
• Prepare any report as and when required related to domain

Health & Safety

• Ensure all maintenance activities in the section are carried out in complete adherence of the safety, health and environmental policies and procedures for the Plant.
• Ensure safety measures are consistently followed and take initiative to enhance acceptance of safety as a culture so as to achieve zero accident level
• Train employees on various electrical equipment to ensure sensitization to the correct methods of handling the same

• Report any incident to the Chief Engineer immediately

People Management

• Guide and manage the team to ensure the department\'s objectives are met
• Ensure that team is adequately trained and proactively work with HR at capability enhancement of team
• Conduct effective performance appraisals for the team and provide regular feedback
• Motivate, counsel and coach employees to ensure a conducive working environment

KEC International