Assistant Manager - Maintenance

Job Overview:

• The incumbent provides support to Plant team by leading all Electrical, Instrumentation, maintenance and project activities in the plant.
• The role holder has to lead a team of engineers of various disciplines in planning, organizing and controlling Plant/Utility/Building maintenance, projects and engineering related activities within the plant to ensure that the plant meets engineering and production targets, while conforming to the EHSS expectations.
• The role holder is responsible for managing maintenance of electrical and instrumentation equipments, in-house projects & drive lean manufacturing agenda for the site.
  

Key Responsibilities:

• To plan, schedule, implement, monitor and review maintenance of manufacturing assets to ensure reliability and availability of production assets at levels over 98%.
• Able to troubleshoot breakdowns, errors, malfunction of PLC, SCADA, DCS, Instrumentation etc
• Responsible for managing and maintaining critical equipment fit for purpose by complying to integrity management requirements for the plant assets.
• Implementation of engineering procedures to ensure full compliance Engineering standards and procedures.
• Lead and drive Lean Manufacturing/ Capex projects of the plant. Formulate and obtain approval for the maintenance budget for conducting Maintenance activities,
• Review, monitor and control the annual budget expenditures to agreed budget.
• Forecast requirements and arrange for replenishment of spares to ensure adequate spares availability, whilst keeping the inventory to an optimum level
• Train and refresh the engineering skills of engineering technicians to equip them for autonomous maintenance,
• To ensure full compliance to statutory obligations in the impact area,
• Assess need for up gradation and implement new projects/minor projects to meet business requirements.
• Ensure full compliance IATF, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001 and TPM requirements for the plant.
• Responsible for EHSS in Engineering (both people and equipment) activities and compliance Valvoline Cummins standards

Knowledge, Skills, and Competencies:

• Good knowledge of plant maintenance, project management, planning, co-ordination, negotiations with sound commercial judgment and should be able to work well under pressure and with competing priorities.
• Should have experience in PCS7, PLC (SIEMENS preferred) related control system, PLC operated machines & ability to troubleshoot problems related to PLC logic & maintenance.
• Basic knowledge on statutory requirements like factories act, petroleum rules, electricity acts and rules
• Should have knowledge to read out PLC drawings, Program, Inputs & Outputs
• Should have experience in AC drives (ABB ACS550 preferred), its parameterization, configuration, troubleshooting, controlling & its maintenance
• Should have knowledge of instrumentation such as Transmitters (Pressure, Temperature, Level, and Flow), Switches (Pressure, Flow, Level), Controllers (Temperature, PID), Control Valves.
• Familiar with the process of calibration of Load Cells & other weighing instruments.
• This position requires good people management skills and should be able to lead a team along with team of contractors.
• Experience in communicating and interfacing with all levels of the organization and external agencies / contacts including statutory bodies
• Demonstrate ability to manage multiple activities concurrently
• Computer literate
• Sound Knowledge of MS Office, specifically MS- Excel.
• Systematically breaks down complex problems to solve them. Must have good judgment and be able to make sound decisions under pressure.
• Partnership and Teamwork-Actively support Team activities and facilitates building team effectiveness between production and maintenance teams in the plant. Seeks out sources of knowledge and best practices for team development for building a learning culture. Must demonstrate good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Leadership-Ability to lead teams even where there is no line authority. Must have demonstrated good influencing skills.
• Creativity & Innovative-Should be open to new ideas and constantly strive to look for and adopt newer ways of doing things in a safe and efficient manner.
• Must have knowledge of Lean Manufacturing / TPM