Position Title

Assistant Manager - O&M;

Position Summary

Responsible for daily O&M; activities in Transmission Lines.

Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities

1. Transmission Line Operations & Maintenance

• Manage end-to-end O&M; activities of EHV transmission lines, associated towers, foundations, conductors, OPGW, earth wire, insulators, fittings, and line accessories.

• Develop and implement annual maintenance plans, preventive maintenance schedules, and reliability improvement programs.

• Ensure transmission line availability targets are achieved as per regulatory and organizational requirements.

• Monitor network performance, outages, forced trippings, and line health indices.

• Analyze line faults, trippings, and disturbances and ensure timely corrective actions.

2. Patrolling & Condition Monitoring

• Plan and supervise:

• Routine patrolling

• Thermovision inspections

• Drone-based line inspections

• Tower-top inspections

• Specialized inspections for river crossings and critical spans

• Monitor conductor condition, tower integrity, foundation health,



corrosion, insulator contamination, and vegetation encroachments.

• Identify potential risks and implement predictive maintenance strategies.

3. Reliability Improvement & Asset Management

• Implement condition-based maintenance (CBM) and reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) practices.

• Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) for major outages, conductor snapping, insulator failures, tower damages, and OPGW failures.

• Develop asset replacement and refurbishment plans based on asset health assessment.

• Support implementation of Asset Management Systems in line with ISO 55000 principles.

4. Emergency Restoration & Breakdown Maintenance

• Lead restoration activities during:

• Line outages

• Tower collapses

• Conductor snapping

• OPGW failures

• Natural calamities (floods, cyclones, lightning, landslides, forest fires)

• Mobilize emergency restoration systems (ERS), manpower, equipment, and

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