Manager Central Engineering

Responsibilities and Accountabilities of the Job role:

• Develop and implement Preventive and Predictive maintenance plans for site in line with maintenance policy.
• Contribute to achieving and maintaining Reliability goals and objectives through the use of sound predictive and preventative maintenance practices.
• Constant focus on continuous improvement; best practice, sharing learnings and communications to promote the cultural shift towards total plant reliability.
• Work with maintenance engineers to develop and implement preventive and predictive maintenance programs on existing equipment.
• Collect the failure data in each plant to study and find out the real issues and bad actors.
• Lead a Cross Functional Equipment Improvement Team to address chronic issues. The responsibilities include: Investigate equipment failures using Root Cause Failure Analysis principles and work order history to identify failure modes, implement corrective actions required to prevent reoccurrence, Plan, design, co-ordinate, schedule, and supervise specific corrective maintenance projects
• Update the preventive & Predictive maintenance plans, schedule and task list in accordance with RCA action items to avoid the failures in future.
• Ensure that corrective and Preventive actions must be initiated based on the PM & PDM inspection report.
• Ensure that Re-inspection should be done to ensure that the action taken has resolved the issue.
• Ensure that Predictive Maintenance results and actions should be maintained in SAP based on the actual work implemented.
• Study & recommend suitable instruments for condition monitoring at each site or for common use if needed.
• Study and suggest at each plant, the scope for implementation of Risk based inspection (RBI), Mechanical integrity (MI) and plan for mitigation measures for improving overall reliability & life of plant as applicable.
• Generate reports pertaining to reliability and other related activities in each plant and follow up with plant team for completion of the jobs. Generate reports pertaining to reliability and other related activities in each plant and follow up with plant team for completion of the jobs.
• Work with vendors concerning equipment issues, technology issues and failures.
• Use reliability concepts / tools to perform reliability assessment of plant assets and develop action plans to increase reliability and reduce maintenance costs.
• Apply / sustain / improve reliability standard operating procedures. Optimize stated best practices to achieve lowest long-term cost of ownership.
• Review new and repaired equipment design and develop reliability requirements.
• Apply lean fundamentals to equipment reliability and conduct mechanical reliability audits and reviews.
• Lead plant reliability improvement initiatives which focus on eliminating significant and recurring reliability issues.
• Assume the Maintenance engineer backup role in his/her absence.
• Support Process Based Leadership, Management of Change, and other business processes.
• Perform other duties as assigned which may not be specifically listed in the position description, but which are within the general occupational series and responsibility level typically associated with the employee’s skills classification of work.
• Providing regular status reports to the top management.

• Monitor performance of equipment’s through NDT techniques which directly affect product quality and take corrective/preventive action.
• Monitor and control quality systems and procedures.
• Introducing new techniques in the field of engineering, repair, condition monitoring etc. in order to improve reliability of maintenance, productivity of technicians &/or reduce maintenance expenditure.
• Set and adhere to Engineering standards all the time.
• Train and retrain Technicians for Quality performance.
• Set Quality control procedure for all maintenance activities, clearly defining responsibility and authority.

• Timely Identification of improvement requirements in Engineering specifications, Layout, piping drawings, etc. & ensuring corrections before execution with proper coordination with Project leader/ EP(Projects)
• To ensure no rework during execution with proper planning and controls of defect free maintenance execution, proper material usage and execution with proper/latest revision drawings.
• Utilizing all available resources to generate ideas, solutions and management programs for Cost reduction and productivity improvement, implementing them successfully within approved budget and timeframes.
• Monitoring & controlling material wastages/pilferage during project and maintenance execution ensuring optimum materials management.