Maintenance Head

Position: Maintenance Head (Reports to Plant Head)

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Job Purpose:

Key Responsibility:

Preventive & Breakdown Maintenance:

• Create preventive maintenance schedules for presses, welding machines, bending/forming tools, and utilities.
  

Machine Health & Spare Parts:

• Maintain asset history and breakdown logs.
  
• Ensure availability of critical spare parts and maintain reordering levels.
  

Electrical & Automation:

• Oversee panel wiring, VFD/PLC maintenance, and troubleshooting electrical faults in automation equipment.
  
• Support welding automation, robotic arms, and vision-based inspection systems.
  

Utilities & Infrastructure:

• Maintain compressors, generators, cranes, HVACs, DG sets, and ensure energy-efficient operations.
  
• Ensure electrical safety audits and compliance with statutory norms (Factory Act, ISO 14001).
  

Systems & Procedures:

• Understand organizational objectives, short-term and long-term goals, and develop a maintenance strategy in line with these objectives.
  
• Plan, document, and communicate well-defined Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for predictive, preventive, and breakdown maintenance, in line with the maintenance strategy with an objective of achieving zero downtime.
  
• Ensure maintenance as well as other related personnel are aware of the SOPs and are kept updated on changes made from time to time.
  
• Evaluate the SOPs periodically and ensure learnings are captured in subsequent revisions.
  
• Provide expert technical advice on all aspects of engineering to other managers and staff to ensure effective decision-making.
  
• Define systems and guidelines for Engineering Stores, along with the Plant Head and Sectional Heads.
  

Maintenance Planning:

• Develop predictive and preventive maintenance schedules for plant, machinery, and equipment to ensure that these continue to operate at optimum levels.
  
• In coordination with the Plant Head and Production Head, freeze these plans and communicate the same on a need-to-know basis.
  
• Study historical breakdowns, analyze the root cause, and plan actions to eliminate the root cause.
  

Preventive & Predictive Execution and Monitoring:

• Monitor predictive and preventive maintenance work to ensure that it is carried out to the required standard and within agreed budget levels.
  
• Monitor and revise predictive and preventive maintenance schedules as necessary to ensure their continued effective performance.
  
• Guide and mentor the maintenance team to ensure operational goals are achieved and there is zero breakdown downtime.
  
• Guide and mentor the operations team to identify incidents indicative of potential breakdowns and empower them to raise alerts as and when these incidents are observed.
  

Safety & Environment:

• Ensure the safety of all personnel, equipment, and facilities through administration of programs, modeling safety at all times, and instilling the value of personal responsibility for safety in each individual.
  
• Ensure compliance with all safety procedures without exception.
  
• Participate in regular and refresher training on safety procedures.
  
• Ensure environmental norms are understood and captured in workflows.
  
• Ensure that the team is aware of all pollution control needs and compliance requirements.
  

Business Plan:

• Understand the Annual Business Plan, goals, and targets of your function.
  

Budget & Cost Control:

• Use optimally, monitor, and control the functional budget for the year. Adhere to policies to control cost.
  
• Record data and variance against budget items assigned to your function.
  
• Ensure compliance with defined procedures and use of related formats and checklists in all areas of work.
  
• Record data and variance against budget items assigned to your function.
  

Standard Operating Procedures:

• Ensure compliance with defined procedures and use of related formats and checklists in all areas of work.
  

Reports & MIS:

• Capture data your role is responsible for in defined formats. Ensure accuracy and timely submission of each report.

Leadership:

Managerial:

• Budgeting, Data-based decision making, Continuous Improvement, Cost Control, MIS, and process orientation.
  Planning, organizing, scheduling, and monitoring.Problem analysis and problem-solving.Delegation.Ability to prioritize between predictive, preventive, and breakdown maintenance.

Functional:

Technological: