Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

Overview

Lead Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

Reports To

Plant Station Manager with dotted line reporting to Maintenance Manager

Key Responsibilities:

Mechanical Reliability & Maintenance Strategy

• Develop, implement, and continuously improve mechanical maintenance plans for all plant equipment like feedstock shredding systems, pumps, compressors, gas handling and purification systems, hot water systems, digesters, mixers, piping, valves etc.
• Create and preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance plans to improve asset reliability / uptime and reduce unplanned downtime.
• Prepare critical list of spare parts
• Prepare root-cause analysis (RCA) for equipment failures, finalize and implement corrective actions, and ideate for preventive actions.
• Define and monitor maintenance KPIs like MTBF, MTTR, OEE.

Equipment & Process Expertise

Ability to work on technical part of Biogas plant including:

• Digesters and agitators
• Gas handling and filtration equipment
• Shredding equipment, extruders etc.
• Hot water systems
• Centrifugal & Positive displacement Pumps, valves, piping, and instrumentation

Ability to read drawings like P&IDs, GA, SLD, Process flow diagrams and O&M manuals, maintenance procedures etc.

Project Management & Engineering Support

• Ability to read, attend and express in mechanical design reviews for modifications, debottlenecking, and capacity expansion projects.
• Ability to manage maintenance improvements, equipment upgrades, retrofits, and efficiency improvement projects.
• Coordinate with Electrical, Instrumentation, and Civil teams for integrated plant changes.

Safety, Compliance, and Quality

• Enforce a strong safety culture; ensure all mechanical activities comply with company and industry HSE policies and permit-to-work procedures.
• Ability to read and understand risk assessments (HAZOP) for mechanical changes and maintenance work.
• Ability to prepare Job safety analysis for high risk safety jobs.

Soft Skills

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of mechanical technicians, supervisors, and rotating equipment specialists.
• Conduct site-based training programs on best practices, condition monitoring analytics
• Communicate status, risks, and opportunities to Plant Leadership and stakeholders.

Candidate should be B.E / B Tech in Mechanical Engineering with 812 years of mechanical maintenance experience in biogas, waste-to-energy, wastewater treatment, or petrochemical industries, at least 3-4 years in a leadership/lead engineer role with direct supervision of maintenance personnel will be preferred. Some experience with anaerobic digestion systems and biogas plants will be added advantage.

Soft Skills

• Ability to lead, team management and getting work done in high pressure situations.
• Problem-solving, analytical thinking, and decision-making skills.
• Effective communication and report / mail writing skills.
• Ability to manage multiple and high priorities and excitement to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

KPIs expected

• Plant Availability, reliability, and uptime
• MTBF and MTTR for critical equipment
• Maintenance Backlog and Completion Rate
• Spares availability and inventory accuracy