Job Summary

Job Title Engineering Head

City, Country Asoj, Vadodara, India

Responsibilities Engineering & Asset Management

- Lead the engineering and maintenance function for the site ensuring optimum equipment reliability, availability, and lifecycle performance.
- Establish engineering standards, maintenance systems, and governance processes for all plant assets.
- Develop and maintain the site asset register and equipment criticality classification system.
- Define preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance strategies for all critical equipment.
- Ensure compliance with statutory, regulatory, safety, and company engineering requirements.
- Drive effective management of rotating, static, utility, electrical, instrumentation, and automation assets.
- Establish site engineering KPIs and monitor performance against reliability and efficiency targets.

Greenfield Project Handover & Operational Readiness

- Lead the engineering takeover of the greenfield facility from the project organization.
- Ensure complete transfer of technical documentation, drawings, manuals, spare parts, and maintenance requirements.
- Verify asset readiness, maintainability, reliability, and operability before production start-up.
- Support commissioning, qualification, startup, and stabilization activities.
- Establish long-term maintenance and asset management strategies during the transition phase.

Maintenance Excellence & Reliability

- Develop and deploy reliability-centered maintenance practices across the site.
- Implement robust planning and scheduling processes to improve maintenance effectiveness.
- Lead shutdown, turnaround, and major maintenance activities.
- Conduct Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA)



for critical equipment failures and implement corrective actions.
- Drive reduction in breakdowns, downtime, and maintenance costs through systematic reliability improvements.
- Establish spare parts management and inventory optimization processes.

TPM, 5S & Continuous Improvement

- Lead implementation and sustainability of TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) across the site.
- Drive Autonomous Maintenance, Planned Maintenance, and Focused Improvement pillars.
- Establish and sustain world-class 5S standards throughout engineering and production areas.
- Promote a culture of equipment ownership and operational discipline.
- Identify and implement productivity, reliability, and cost optimization initiatives.

Operational Excellence Collaboration

- Partner with Operational Excellence (OE) teams to execute plant improvement projects.
- Support Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, digitalization, and performance improvement programs.
- Provide engineering leadership for cost-saving and productivity-enhancement initiatives.
- Participate in cross-functional improvement projects and business transformation initiatives.

Budget & Resource Management

- Own the maintenance and engineering operating budgets.
- Prepare and manage annual maintenance expenditure plans.
- Develop and justify capital investment proposals required for asset reliability, compliance, and capacity enhancement.




- Ensure optimal utilization of engineering resources and external service providers.

Leadership & Capability Building

- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing engineering and maintenance organization.
- Define competency development plans for engineering personnel.
- Coach and mentor engineers and technicians on best engineering and maintenance practices.
- Foster a culture of safety, accountability, teamwork, and continuous learning.

Safety, Quality & Compliance

- Ensure engineering activities are executed in compliance with HSE and Quality requirements.
- Support Process Safety Management (PSM) initiatives.
- Participate in risk assessments, audits, and compliance programs.
- Ensure contractor safety management and engineering work permit compliance.

Required Qualifications

- 15-20+ years of engineering and maintenance experience in chemical, specialty chemicals, pharmaceutical, FMCG, food, or process industries.
- Minimum 5 years of leadership experience managing engineering and maintenance functions.
- Experience in greenfield project handover and plant startup is highly desirable.
- Solid knowledge of TPM, Reliability Engineering, Asset Management, Maintenance Excellence, and Continuous Improvement systems.

Technical Competencies

- Asset Reliability Management
- Equipment Criticality Assessment
- TPM Deployment
- Preventive & Predictive Maintenance
- Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA)
- Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM)
- Condition Monitoring
- SAP PM / CMMS
- Shutdown & Turnaround Management
- Utilities Management
- Engineering Standards & Governance
- Operational Excellence & Lean Manufacturing
- Budget Management

📌 Engineering Head (Vadodara)
🏢 DSM Firmenich
📍 Vadodara