Role: Head Engineering

Location: Mumbai Kurla

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1. Enterprise E&M; Strategy and Transformation

o Own and continuously refine the PPL Engineering & Maintenance excellence strategy, maturity model and phased transformation roadmap. o Benchmark PPL practices against leading global pharmaceutical companies and translate relevant practices into practical enterprise standards.

o Partner with site leadership to develop short-, medium- and long-term reliability and asset lifecycle plans aligned with business continuity, compliance and investment priorities.

o Act as the central technical escalation point for significant engineering reliability and maintenance risks.

1. Asset Reliability and Lifecycle Management

o Lead asset health, infrastructure, laboratory equipment and operational technology assessments, ensuring risks are prioritized by criticality and business impact. o Drive year-on-year refurbishment, replacement and obsolescence plans for critical process, utility, infrastructure, laboratory and automation assets.

o Strengthen preventive, predictive, condition-based, reliability-centered and autonomous maintenance practices to move sites from reactive to risk-based maintenance.

o Ensure robust failure analysis, root cause analysis, CAPA effectiveness, lessons learned and horizontal deployment across sites.

1. Maintenance Excellence and Standardization

o Drive adoption and sustained compliance of global foundational guidelines covering asset registers, criticality, planned and unplanned maintenance, spares, lifecycle management, contractor evaluation, competence and performance measurement.

o Establish consistent governance for PM compliance, MTBF, MTTR, breakdowns, production-impacting failures, maintenance cost, backlog, calibration and other agreed KPIs.

o Lead critical equipment and spare-parts strategies, including BOM quality, ABC/VED classification, lead-time risk,



stocking norms and opportunities for regional or shared inventory.

o Promote disciplined work management, maintenance planning and scheduling, vendor performance management and continuous improvement.

1. Digital Engineering and Technology Enablement

o Provide functional leadership for CMMS deployment and integration, including standardized workflows, master data, work orders, asset history, maintenance backlog, dashboards and spares management. o Advance predictive maintenance through IoT sensors, condition monitoring, analytics and scalable use cases.

o Partner with Digital, IT, Automation, EHS, Quality and site teams on OT assessments, legacy system upgrades, cybersecurity readiness, EMS, MES and Industry 4.0 priorities.

o Ensure technology choices improve reliability, data integrity, regulatory readiness and user adoption.

1. Governance, Performance and Investment

o Operate a strong three-tier governance cadence covering site, regional and global reviews, with transparent accountability and timely escalation. o Maintain enterprise dashboards and provide concise, data-based updates to senior leadership on progress, risks, benefits and required decisions.

o Support risk-based capital prioritization and business cases for reliability, obsolescence, compliance and operational resilience investments.

o Confirm that benefits are sustained through audits, maturity reviews, action tracking and site ownership.

1. People, Capability and Collaboration

o Lead and develop the central Engineering and Maintenance team, clarifying roles, priorities and performance expectations. o Influence site Engineering Heads and cross-functional leaders, building commitment to common standards and outcomes.

o Drive technical competency frameworks, iLead or equivalent capability programs, critical-role mapping, succession planning and knowledge-transfer mechanisms.

o Create and mobilize global SME pools and communities of practice to solve recurring issues and share best practices.

o Build a “we maintain” culture through partnership between Engineering, Operations and Quality.

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