Role & responsibilities

- Lead the Engineering & Maintenance function for the entire manufacturing plant, ensuring high equipment availability, reliability, safety, and cost efficiency.

- Develop and implement preventive, predictive, and breakdown maintenance strategies for all plant equipment and utilities.

- Ensure reliable operation and maintenance of dryers, UHT systems, aseptic filling lines, evaporators, boilers, compressors, pumps, conveyors, and other process equipment.

- Lead mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, automation, and utilities maintenance activities.

- Plan and execute plant shutdowns, preventive maintenance, overhauls, and major repair activities with minimum production disruption.

- Ensure reliability and availability of boilers, steam systems, chillers, cooling towers, RO, STP, ETP, HT/LT electrical systems, and other utilities.

- Implement condition monitoring and predictive maintenance techniques such as vibration analysis, thermography, and oil analysis.

- Drive RCA, MTBF, MTTR, OEE, and equipment reliability improvement initiatives.

- Lead engineering projects, CAPEX, equipment installation, commissioning, modification, and improvement projects.

- Manage spares inventory, maintenance budgets, contractors, and vendor relationships effectively.

- Ensure compliance with plant safety, statutory requirements, food safety, and engineering standards.

- Support and ensure compliance with FSSC 22000, BRCGS, HACCP, GMP, and other food safety requirements related to engineering and maintenance.

- Drive energy efficiency, utility cost reduction, continuous improvement, and maintenance cost optimization initiatives.

- Develop and mentor the Engineering & Maintenance team, establish KPIs,



and build a strong reliability-focused culture.

- Maintain accurate maintenance records, dashboards, KPIs, and management reports.

Preferred candidate profile

- 1218 years of overall experience in Engineering & Maintenance, preferably in Food Processing / Beverage / Dairy / FMCG manufacturing.

- Minimum 5 years of experience in a leadership role managing plant engineering and maintenance functions.

- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical / Electrical Engineering or a relevant engineering discipline.

- Strong hands-on experience with food processing equipment, process utilities, and automated production systems.

- Proven experience in UHT, aseptic filling, CIP systems, evaporators, dryers, boilers, compressors, chillers, pumps, and utility systems will be highly preferred.

- Strong knowledge of Electrical systems, HT/LT panels, motors, drives, transformers, instrumentation, PLC/SCADA, sensors, and automation.

- Experience in preventive, predictive, condition-based and reliability-centred maintenance.

- Strong understanding of RCA, FMEA, RCM, TPM, CMMS, MTBF, MTTR and OEE.

- Experience in CAPEX planning, project execution, commissioning, shutdown management, and vendor management.

- Knowledge of FSSC 22000, BRCGS, HACCP, GMP, and food safety requirements.

- Robust leadership, people management, analytical and problem-solving skills.

- Ability to work closely with Production, Quality, Food Safety, EHS, and Plant Leadership teams.

- Strong ownership, execution orientation, communication skills, and a data-driven approach to plant reliability and performance.

- Candidates who have worked in a high-speed, automated food processing environment will be preferred.

📌 Engineering And Maintenance Manager (Dindigul)
🏢 Indi Coconut
📍 Dindigul