Purpose of the Role
The Electrical Maintenance Engineer is responsible for ensuring the reliable, safe, and productive operation of all electrical, instrumentation, automation, and utility-related systems in an engineering plastics compounding plant. The role focuses on preventive and breakdown maintenance, troubleshooting, equipment reliability, energy efficiency, and continuous improvement to minimize production downtime and maintain uninterrupted plant operations.
Key Responsibilities
• Carry out preventive, predictive, and breakdown maintenance of electrical and automation equipment across the compounding plant.
• Ensure reliable operation of twin-screw extruders, feeders, mixers, pelletizers, dryers, cooling systems, conveying systems, and material-handling equipment.
• Troubleshoot electrical faults in motors, VFDs, MCCs, PCCs, control panels, contactors, relays, sensors, heaters, thermocouples, and power distribution systems.
• Maintain and troubleshoot PLC, HMI, SCADA, temperature controllers, PID systems, and industrial communication networks.




• Monitor and maintain electrical systems associated with extrusion and compounding process equipment.
• Diagnose faults related to extruder drives, feeder drives, torque systems, barrel heating/cooling, vacuum systems, pelletizer drives, and downstream equipment.
• Ensure proper functioning of RTDs, thermocouples, pressure sensors, level sensors, proximity sensors, load cells, flow meters, and other process instruments.
• Attend electrical and instrumentation breakdowns promptly and restore equipment safely with minimum production downtime.
• Execute preventive maintenance schedules and maintain accurate maintenance records.
• Conduct regular inspection of MCCs, PCCs, distribution boards, transformers, DG sets, UPS systems, compressors, and other electrical utilities.
• Monitor electrical parameters such as voltage, current, power factor, energy consumption, and motor loading.
• Identify opportunities for energy savin

📌 Electrical Maintenance Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Ascend Performance Materials
📍 Chennai