Head of Maintenance

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Role Objective

The Central Maintenance Head will be responsible for leading, planning, and implementing the overall maintenance strategy across the Chennai facility. The role will focus on ensuring high uptime and reliability of plant machinery, utilities, and equipment through predictive and preventive maintenance, energy cost optimization, compliance with statutory standards, and strong stakeholder management.

Key Responsibilities

1. Maintenance & Reliability

• Lead

  analysis of downtime and breakdowns

  to identify root causes and implement corrective actions, ensuring continuous improvement.
• Drive

  uptime improvement

  across all plant machinery, line equipment, and utilities in line with industry norms.
• Monitor and achieve

  maintenance KPIs

  including:

• MTTR (Mean Time to Repair)

• MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)

• Machine Availability %

• Implement predictive, preventive, and condition-based maintenance programs to enhance equipment reliability.

2. Planning & Audit

• Conduct

  periodic maintenance audits

  across plants to assess planning, scheduling, and compliance to maintenance protocols.
• Ensure adherence to

  group-level standards

  and best practices in plant engineering and central maintenance.
• Establish robust

  maintenance SOPs, manuals, and reliability standards

  for all critical equipment.

3. Cost & Energy Optimization

• Ensure

  energy cost optimization

  as per group benchmarks, focusing on reducing specific energy consumption per unit of output.
• Develop and implement cost control measures to reduce overall

  maintenance expenditure

  without compromising quality.
• Promote

  domestic spare part development

  to reduce import dependency and optimize cost, ensuring quality standards are maintained.

4. Statutory & Compliance

• Ensure strict adherence to all statutory, regulatory, and group requirements, including:

• ISO standards

  (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 50001)

• OHSAS / ISO 45001

  for safety compliance
• State & Central government norms (Electrical Inspectorate, Pollution Control Board, Factory Act, etc.)
• Prepare and maintain compliance reports, certifications, and audit documentation.

5. Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Lead, mentor, and develop a skilled maintenance team to ensure competency in advanced maintenance practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Production, Quality, EHS, Projects, Procurement) for seamless operations.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with

  internal stakeholders, OEMs, vendors, contractors, and government authorities

  .
• Drive a culture of

  safety, quality, and continuous improvement

  across maintenance teams.