Job Summary

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The Plant Engineering and Projects Lead – Ahmedabad will own end-to-end engineering and project related solutions for the Ahmedabad Manufacturing Plant, managing Equipment Installation, Reducing Equipment Downtime, optimizing Energy Cost, ensuring that site assets and infrastructure is maintained properly within the factory compound. The role is critical to ensuring zero line stoppages due to equipment unavailability, full GMP/FSSAI compliance across the factory boundary, and cost-efficient utility operation.

Responsibilities:

- Sustains & improves reliability, plant operation, maintenance, and systems documentation.
- Production plan compliance, Good manufacturing practices adhering to defined quality systems and in controlling material consumption variances.
- Manages the plant’s operations, maintenance, projects, and departments including spare parts & inventory.
- Budget control and management ands ensuring we stay as per the defined limits.
- Ensuring the compliance with environmental regulations.
- Ensure compliance with industry regulations and safety standards.
- Implementing a wide variety of engineering solutions to increase equipment availability, increase net operating rate, reduce operation losses, and achieve standard and acceptable production rates.
- Collaborate with other departments to integrate engineering solutions with business development and operational needs.
- Facilitate continuous professional development and training for engineering staff.
- Drive innovation and continuous improvement initiatives within the engineering department.
- Sustaining & developing on approach to maintenance incorporating principles of TPM, RCA, and the Kaizen philosophy.




- Responsible for utilities operation & electrical distribution to ensure the delivery from Plants.
- Determining the need for training and talent development.
- Coordinating internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects
- Plant Asset care management
- CAPEX projects -Brown field.
- To coordinate for development of new NPD’s and implementation for commercials
- Reduction of rejection / waste generation / reduction of cost in all lines, as part of sparkle initiatives
- Material Usage variance (Budgeted consumption value Vs Actual consumption value) should not exceed the Budgeted cost.
- To control M&R; costs within budgets, through efficient planning
- Reduce Energy cost / kg of product.
- Up keep healthiness of machines.
- Manpower costs to be within budgets. Reduction of contractual usage.
- Ideating and making required proposals for improvements of KPI’s.
- Identifying opportunities of potential risks and making proposals for approvals.
- Timely Implementation of approved projects without impacting the delivery
- Ensuring no Major NC's from statutory authorities
- Ensure full compliance to all Safety regulations

Education & Experience:

- Graduation in Mechanical Engineering / Electrical Engineering from Tier 1 & 2 College preferably in FMCG,



food & beverage, pharmaceuticals, or nutraceuticals.
- BE with about 13 to 17 years of experience
- Hands-on experience managing a Greenfield and Brownfield Project, Managing the Site Engineering Function, performance reviews, and billing reconciliation.
- Robust working knowledge on Chillers and AHU’s/DHU’s operations and FSSAI / GMP compliance requirements.
- Proficiency in SAP / SAP B1 modules; exposure to network optimization tools an advantage.
- Having technical knowledge to handle government authorities and their inputs to be converted into actions.

Required Skills:

- Knowledge on Pumps, Gear, Relays, Starters, Pneumatics, Hydraulics, motors, Troubleshooting, TPM, Lean, KAIZEN, POKAYOKE, SPC, SAP Thermodynamics and Material Science, C-License.
- PLC, SCADA, AutoCAD, MS Excel
- Exposure in nutraceutical process and equipment
- Strong people management capability, including direct supervision of Engineering, Utility and Project service providers.
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional stakeholders across supply chain, procurement, quality, finance, and production.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to manage at all levels of the organization and with external service providers.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capability – able to lead KPI reviews, root-cause analyses, and corrective action plans.
- Fluency in Gujarati or Hindi for local operational interfaces; English proficiency mandatory for reporting to GPN leadership.
- High level of integrity, ownership, dependability, and results orientation.

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