Department: Engineering & Maintenance | Industry: API / Bulk Drugs / Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
1. Job Purpose
To lead the Engineering and Maintenance function for API manufacturing facilities, ensuring maximum equipment reliability, uninterrupted plant operations, regulatory compliance, cost optimization and effective management of engineering infrastructure, utilities, projects and maintenance activities.
The role will be responsible for driving engineering excellence across manufacturing blocks, utilities, process equipment and infrastructure while ensuring compliance with cGMP, EHS, regulatory requirements and applicable engineering standards.
2. Key Responsibilities
A. Engineering & Maintenance Management
• Lead the overall Engineering and Maintenance function for API manufacturing facilities.
• Develop and implement preventive, predictive and breakdown maintenance strategies to maximize equipment uptime.
• Ensure reliability and availability of critical process equipment, including reactors, centrifuges, ANFDs, filter dryers, heat exchangers, pumps, agitators,



scrubbers and vacuum systems.
• Establish maintenance schedules, equipment criticality assessments and annual maintenance plans.
• Monitor equipment breakdowns, mean time between failures (MTBF), mean time to repair (MTTR) and maintenance costs.
• Drive root cause analysis (RCA) and corrective/preventive actions for recurring equipment failures.
• Ensure timely availability of engineering spares, tools, consumables and critical maintenance materials.
• Implement equipment lifecycle management, asset integrity and reliability improvement initiatives.

B. Utilities & Infrastructure Management
• Manage plant utilities, including:
• Boilers, steam and condensate systems
• Cooling towers and chilled water systems
• HVAC and ventilation systems
• Compressed air and nitrogen systems
• Vacuum systems
• Water treatment, DM water and other process-water systems
• Effluent treatment and associated utility infrast

📌 GM:- API Engineering (Ankleshwar)
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📍 Ankleshwar