1. Job Purpose

To lead and direct the engineering and maintenance function across the Maharashtra Cluster, ensuring
100% asset reliability, statutory compliance, operational safety, and cost optimization
. The role is accountable for budgeting, energy conservation, people development, and seamless coordination between central engineering teams and site-level execution to achieve world-class manufacturing benchmarks.

2. Key Responsibilities

A. Asset Management & Budgets
- Define, implement, and continuously monitor
Roles & Responsibilities (R&R;)
,
Maintenance Index (MI)
, and
Key Indicators (KI)
for engineering teams across all sites in the cluster.
- Plan, control, and oversee annual
Repair & Maintenance (R&M;)
and
CAPEX
budgets; ensure
100% on-time execution
of all planned activities.
- Maintain
100% availability
of safety-critical assets and
≥99.5% availability
for service-critical equipment.
- Ensure the asset register is always accurate and updated; manage asset transfers and retirements strictly per company procedure.
- Ensure
≥90% critical-spares availability




to minimize
Mean Time to Repair (MTTR)
and avoid production losses.

B. Safety Leadership
- Drive a
zero-accident culture
; achieve
zero maintenance-related accidents
by enforcing proper machine guards, safety interlocks, and work permit systems.
- Ensure all packing lines and equipment are commissioned with
360° safety guards
and
tamper-proof interlocks
post-HOTO, PM, or overhauling.
- Ensure all maintenance jobs are executed with proper
permits
,
Job Safety Analysis (JSA)
, and
engineering controls
.

C. Process Compliance
- Enforce
Pidilite SOPs
(or equivalent industry-best practices) and globally benchmarked standards for equipment care and safety.
- Rank equipment by criticality; continuously monitor and improve
Preventive Maintenance (PM) compliance
.
- Drive
Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
and
Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA)
for all breakdowns (especially >4 hours) to eliminate repeat failures

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