Progressive Maintenance & Utilities Lead

Role Purpose:

As a member of the Plant Leadership Team (PLT), the Progressive Maintenance & Utilities Lead will lead the Progressive Maintenance (PM) Pillar within the Integrated Lean Six Sigma (IL6S) framework and drive the plant's journey towards a Zero Breakdown Culture.

This role is responsible for building maintenance capability, improving equipment reliability, strengthening utilities performance, driving energy efficiency, and embedding world-class maintenance practices across the plant.

This role is focused on coaching, capability building, and technical leadership - rather than day-to-day maintenance execution.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Progressive Maintenance Leadership:

- Lead the Progressive Maintenance Pillar and drive equipment reliability across the plant.

- Establish and sustain preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance practices.

- Drive breakdown elimination and continuous improvement initiatives.

2. Capability Building:

- Develop maintenance capability across engineering and operations teams.

- Strengthen organizational expertise in reliability and maintenance excellence.

- Support capability transfer from PM pillar to Core Team through Autonomous Maintenance initiatives.

3. Reliability & Operational Excellence:

- Improve equipment availability, maintenance effectiveness, and operational performance.

- Coach the line leadership teams in conducting high quality root cause analysis and drive sustainable corrective & preventive actions.

- Improve key reliability metrics including OEE, MTBF, and MTTR.

4. Technical & Utilities Governance:

- Provide leadership across maintenance, utilities, electrical, instrumentation, and automation functions.

- Ensure reliable and efficient operation of critical plant infrastructure and utility systems.

- Support modernization, automation, and reliability improvement initiatives.

5. Safety, Compliance & Sustainability:

- Ensure compliance with safety, statutory, and environmental requirements.

- Drive energy optimization and sustainability initiatives across the site.

- Champion safe maintenance practices and technical governance.

6. Plant Leadership:

- Own maintenance and infrastructure budgets.

- Support capital projects, plant expansions, and equipment investments.

- Provide technical expertise to improve future plant design and asset reliability.

What Success Looks Like:

- Reduced equipment breakdowns and downtime.

- Improved reliability, maintenance effectiveness, and plant performance.

- Strong PM Pillar maturity within the IL6S framework.

- Improved utility reliability and energy efficiency.

- Enhanced technical capability across the organization.

- Best-in-class safety and compliance performance.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

Education:

- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Electronics, or Industrial Engineering.

Experience & Skills:

- 15+ years of experience in Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, or Plant Technical Operations.

- Strong hands-on maintenance foundation with progression into maintenance leadership roles.

- Experience working within TPM, IL6S or similar operational excellence frameworks.

- Proven track record of driving reliability improvements, capability building, and maintenance excellence in highly automated manufacturing environments.

- Strong leadership, coaching, stakeholder management, and systems-thinking capabilities.

Why Join Mondelez?:

This is a high-impact Plant Leadership Team role offering you a unique opportunity to make your mark at a global snacking leader. Here is what makes this role exceptional:

- Opportunities to take up senior leadership roles - like Plant leads and engineering leadership roles both in India and internationally.

Shape Strategy:

- Define and drive the plant maintenance strategy at a senior leadership level.

Plant-Wide Influence:

- Influence performance across the entire plant as a valued member of the PLT.

Build Capability:

- Develop and mentor the next generation of technical leaders and engineers.

World-Class Excellence:

- Drive reliability and operational excellence using IL6S and lean frameworks.