Manager - Maintenance and Improvements

How You Will Contribute

• Guide and drive Team for maintenance excellence through maintenance program based on best practices in the industry, with an emphasis on planning / scheduling and preventive / predictive maintenance.
• Monitor the use and inventories of spare parts, maintenance supplies, equipments and take corrective actions / guide team when necessary.
• Establish and ensure effectiveness of maintenance management system (MMS) for tracking work orders, spare parts, and maintenance history of plant equipment.
• Lead a team of 10 contractors.
• Supervise & guide plant maintenance personnel to perform their allocated tasks.
• Ensure that maintenance team members are adequately trained, equipped, and motivated so that the maintenance program can be accomplished in a safe, timely, and cost-effective manner.
• Communicate regularly with all maintenance team members, both individually and as a group, to ensure good two-way communication concerning maintenance issues.
• Conduct employee performance reviews based on job descriptions to determine competency, knowledge, and contribution of the maintenance team members.
• Ensure training document / manuals are updated for the maintenance department.
• Ensure that all maintenance technicians are trained on the most updated version of the operating procedures.
• Review the operation of plant equipment and systems constantly, to minimize unplanned downtime, anticipate solve problems in a timely manner, and to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Initiate and carry out projects that improve efficiency and / or reduce operating costs.
• Track, analyze and improve key maintenance parameters such as asset utilization, maintenance cost, PM compliance, schedule compliance, etc.
• Drive minor capital projects and purchases related to Maintenance.
• Responsible for budgeting and procurement of materials / services for smooth functioning of the department.
• Work with sourcing to qualify new vendors as per IFF s Standards.
• Ensure the department s functioning as per full compliance with ISO / FSSC standards / procedures.
• Lead Mechanical Integrity and Quality Assurance element of PSM for Sohna site operation. Facilitate & guide towards compliance to stated requirement of this element as per PSM standard.
• Lead Machine safety / other safety implementation at Sohna operation. Facilitate & guide unit leads towards compliance to stated requirement of this standard.
• Implementation of best practices at Maintenance function. Identify various improvement opportunities & cascade down the maintenance KPIs throughout the maintenance team.
• Liaison with Govt. Official (Electrical Inspector, Fire Safety, Weights and Measure inspector).
• Ensure and Track RTO compliance related to maintenance function.
• Ensure smooth functionality of engineering stores.
• Continuously work on improvements in Utility and process equipment s, reduce time and mean time between failures.
• Continue to track energy consumption at site and carry out conservation measures,
• Support and implement the food safety requirement.
• Plan and execute annual capital budget projects timely without cost overrun using Ecosys project management software.
• Continue to make improvements in Maintenance practices, Equipment, AMC and Energy Consumption etc.

What you will need to be successful

Skills Required

Word, Excel, Presentation, Food Safety, process safety engineering