- The Chief Engineer will be responsible for overall Engineering activities across all sites of the company, ensuring the maximum availability of the plant by implementing the best maintenance practices.
- He will report functionally to the VP-Engineering with a dotted line reporting to the Plant Managers of Feed mill & Soy Crush plant.
- The Chief Engineer will be responsible for overall Engineering activities across all sites of the company, ensuring the maximum availability of the plant by implementing the best maintenance practices.
- He will report functionally to the VP-Engineering with a dotted line reporting to the Plant Managers of Feed mill & Soy Crush plant.
Key Deliverables
- Providing technical support to the onsite engineering team as and when required
- Ensure safety compliance at all sites.
- Develop departmental goals and strategies.
- Implement effective Preventive and predictive maintenance for maximum equipment availability.
- Achieve all KPI targets like Power, steam and R&M cost. Improve OEE, MTTR and MTBF
- Manage engineering store and inventory of engineering spares & consumables.
- Good knowledge of project management, planning, negotiations with sound commercial judgement, able to set priorities.
- Good knowledge on plant utilities like steam boiler, air compressor, Genset, water treatment plant, fire protection system etc.
- Basic knowledge in electrical and instrumentation (for candidate with a mechanical background)
- Proven leadership and management skills with ability to develop a competent maintenance team.
- Prepare maintenance budget, capex proposals. Take the ownership of maintenance cost.
- Leading daily morning meetings and ensure RCAs are done for any downtime happens on a day-to-day basis.
- Work closely with the procurement team to establish annual maintenance contracts to agree on service, delivery timelines, price and performance requirements for those equipment wherever applicable.
- Work with the procurement team for alternate/local vendor development
Requirements
- Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical / Electrical) with 10-15 years of maintenance experience in large manufacturing facility. Out of which 2 to 3 years as head department hea
