Senior Manager / Head – Engineering & Maintenance

Food Manufacturing | Sweets | Namkeen | Bakery | Central Kitchen

Department: Engineering & Maintenance

Industry: FMCG | Sweets | Namkeen | Bakery | Food Processing | Restaurants

Location: Gaya, Patna Bihar

Experience: 10–15+ Years

Qualification: B.E./B.Tech – Mechanical/Electrical/Relevant Engineering

Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Role

Role Purpose

Pramod Group is looking for an experienced Senior Manager / Head – Engineering & Maintenance to lead the complete engineering, maintenance and utilities function across our food manufacturing facilities and large-scale kitchens. The role will be responsible for ensuring high equipment availability, minimal breakdowns, safe operations, preventive/predictive maintenance, utility efficiency, engineering projects, automation and maintenance of machinery used in sweets, namkeen, bakery and high-volume commercial kitchen operations.

Responsibilities

- Lead complete Engineering & Maintenance operations across manufacturing plants and central/large kitchens.
- Ensure maximum availability and reliability of all production machinery and utilities.
- Develop and implement Preventive Maintenance, Predictive Maintenance, TBM and CBM schedules.
- Minimize production downtime, breakdown frequency and maintenance costs.
- Conduct Root Cause Analysis for major breakdowns and implement permanent corrective actions.
- Establish SOPs, maintenance checklists, machine history records and engineering documentation.
- Monitor MTBF, MTTR, breakdown %, PM compliance and equipment availability.
- Manage CAPEX/OPEX budgets, engineering projects, machine installation and commissioning.
- Lead greenfield, brownfield, capacity-expansion and plant-modernization projects.
- Coordinate with Production, Quality, Purchase, Stores, EHS, Projects and Operations.
- Manage engineering vendors, contractors, AMC/service providers and equipment manufacturers.
- Optimize energy consumption, utility cost and maintenance expenditure.
- Build and manage a strong team of engineers, technicians, electricians, fitters and utility operators.
- The reference profile similarly includes project commissioning, utility equipment, budgeting, vendors,



contractors and engineering project management.

Required Skills

Machinery Exposure Required

1.

Sweets Manufacturing

Machinery

- The candidate should have experience in maintenance, troubleshooting, installation or operation support for machinery such as:
- Automatic/semi-automatic khoa/mawa making machines
- Steam-jacketed kettles
- Milk boiling and milk-processing systems
- Steam kettles and tilting kettles
- Continuous milk evaporators
- Bulk milk coolers
- Paneer/chhena processing equipment
- Rasgulla/Gulab Jamun production systems
- Laddu-making / portioning / forming machines
- Boondi-making systems
- Automatic frying systems
- Sugar syrup preparation tanks
- Syrup filtration and circulation systems
- Mixing and blending equipment
- Sweet cutting machines
- Sweet forming, depositing and portioning machines
- Automatic weighing systems
- Tray handling and cooling systems
- Vacuum cooking systems
- Continuous cooking systems
- Steam cooking equipment
- Refrigerated storage and cold rooms
- Blast chillers/freezers where applicable
- Sweet packaging machines
- Vacuum packing machines
- MAP packaging equipment
- Flow-wrap machines
- Tray-sealing machines
- Coding and labelling machines
- Metal detectors and checkweighers

2. Namkeen & Snacks Manufacturing Machinery

- Robust exposure preferred to:
- Automatic/semi-automatic namkeen production lines
- Continuous fryers
- Batch fryers
- Potato chips lines
- Pellet/snack frying systems
- Extruders
- Sev/bhujia machines
- Namkeen extrusion machines
- Dough mixers
- Automatic sheeters
- Frying oil filtration systems
- Oil circulation systems
- Seasoning drums
- Flavour applicators
- Masala coating systems
- Mixing/blending systems
- Cooling conveyors
- Bucket elevators
- Conveyors
- Multi-head weighing machines
- VFFS packaging machines




- Nitrogen flushing systems
- Automatic pouch packing machines
- Checkweighers
- Metal detectors
- Carton sealing/secondary packaging equipment

3. Large Commercial / Central Kitchen Equipment

- Because Pramod Group also operates restaurant and food-service businesses, the candidate should be comfortable managing equipment used in high-volume central kitchens and large restaurant kitchens, including:
- Large steam-jacketed cooking kettles
- Tilting boiling pans
- Tilting bratt pans
- Bulk cooking vessels
- Commercial induction ranges
- Heavy-duty gas ranges
- Stock pot ranges
- Commercial fryers
- Bulk deep fryers
- Tandoors
- Commercial ovens
- Combi ovens
- Deck ovens
- Convection ovens
- Dough kneaders
- Planetary mixers
- Vegetable cutting machines
- Potato peelers
- Food processors
- Commercial grinders
- Wet grinders
- Masala grinders
- Pulverizers
- Commercial mixers/blenders
- Chapati/roti machines
- Rice boilers
- Steamers
- Bain-marie/hot-holding systems
- Food warming equipment
- Commercial dishwashers
- Pot-washing systems
- Kitchen exhaust and ventilation systems
- Fresh-air and make-up-air systems
- Kitchen fire suppression systems
- Grease traps and drainage systems
- Walk

The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience in: Sweets Manufacturing: Khoa/mawa systems, steam-jacketed kettles, milk-processing equipment, syrup systems, laddu/boondi equipment, automatic fryers, cooling, refrigeration and packaging.

Namkeen Manufacturing: Continuous/batch fryers, sev/bhujia lines, extruders, seasoning drums, oil filtration, conveyors, weighing and automatic packaging lines.

Large Kitchens: Bulk cooking kettles, tilting pans, fryers, ovens, tandoors, mixers, grinders, steamers, refrigeration, cold rooms, kitchen ventilation and commercial kitchen equipment.

Plant Utilities: Boiler, refrigeration, HVAC, compressors, DG, transformers, HT/LT panels, PLC/SCADA, ETP/STP/WTP and fire systems.

The candidate should also have experience in Preventive/Predictive Maintenance, RCA, CAPEX projects, installation & commissioning, automation, energy conservation, budgeting, vendor management and engineering-team leadership.

📌 Senior Manager – Engineering & Maintenance (Patna)
🏢 Pramod Confectionary And Food Industries
📍 Patna