How You Will Contribute

- Guide and drive Team for maintenance excellence through maintenance program based on best practices in the industry, with an emphasis on planning/scheduling and preventive/predictive maintenance.
- Monitor the use and inventories of spare parts, maintenance supplies, equipments and take corrective actions/guide team when necessary.
- Establish and ensure effectiveness of maintenance management system (MMS) for tracking work orders, spare parts, and maintenance history of plant equipment.
- Lead a team of 10 contractors.
- Supervise & guide plant maintenance personnel to perform their allocated tasks.
- Ensure that maintenance team members are adequately trained, equipped, and motivated so that the maintenance program can be accomplished in a protected, timely, and cost-effective manner.
- Communicate regularly with all maintenance team members, both individually and as a group, to ensure good two-way communication concerning maintenance issues.
- Conduct employee performance reviews based on job descriptions to determine competency, knowledge, and contribution of the maintenance team members.
- Ensure training document/manuals are updated for the maintenance department.
- Ensure that all maintenance technicians are trained on the most updated version of the operating procedures.
- Review the operation of plant equipment and systems constantly, to minimize unplanned downtime, anticipate solve problems in a timely manner, and to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Initiate and carry out projects that improve efficiency and/or reduce operating costs.
- Track, analyze and improve key maintenance parameters such as asset utilization, maintenance cost, PM compliance, schedule compliance, etc.
- Drive minor capital projects and purchases related to Maintenance.
- Responsible for budgeting and procurement of materials/services for smooth functioning of the department.
- Work with sourcing to qualify new vendors as per IFF s Standards.




- Ensure the department s functioning as per full compliance with ISO / FSSC standards / procedures.
- Lead Mechanical Integrity and Quality Assurance element of PSM for Sohna site operation. Facilitate & guide towards compliance to stated requirement of this element as per PSM standard.
- Lead Machine safety / other safety implementation at Sohna operation. Facilitate & guide unit leads towards compliance to stated requirement of this standard.
- Implementation of best practices at Maintenance function. Identify various improvement opportunities & cascade down the maintenance KPIs throughout the maintenance team.
- Liaison with Govt. Official (Electrical Inspector, Fire Safety, Weights and Measure inspector).
- Ensure and Track RTO compliance related to maintenance function.
- Ensure smooth functionality of engineering stores.
- Continuously work on improvements in Utility and process equipment s, reduce time and mean time between failures.
- Continue to track energy consumption at site and carry out conservation measures,
- Support and implement the food safety requirement.
- Plan and execute annual capital budget projects timely without cost overrun using Ecosys project management software.
- Continue to make improvements in Maintenance practices, Equipment, AMC and Energy Consumption etc.

What you will need to be successful

- Bachelor s degree in mechanical engineering or any other relevant or equivalent discipline.
- Minimum 10-12 years of industrial and professional experience preferably in a Food or FMCG industry with minimum 2-4 years of team supervisory experience.
- Operations / Capital management experience preferred.
- Demonstrated leadership, collaboration and project management skills.
- Experience in EHS environment is preferred.
- Proven ability to lead cultural change and create winning teams.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Well versed with Microsoft applications (Word, Excel, Presentation).
- Ability to solve complex problems and develop solutions.
- Previous operations experience with Safety, Food Safety, FAMI-QS, ISO 14001, and Process Safety regulations is highly regarded.

📌 Manager - Maintenance and Improvements (Gurugram)
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