The Head Electrical Mechanical & Mobile Equipment Maintenance will lead maintenance and reliability activities across plant machinery electrical systems and heavy mobile equipment used in steel plant and slag processing operations. The role will ensure high equipment availability operational reliability safety and cost optimization across crushing screening beneficiation metal recovery material handling and mobile equipment operations. The position requires strong technical expertise in fixed plant equipment electrical systems and heavy mobile equipment along with proven experience in maintenance planning breakdown management team leadership and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
1. Mechanical Maintenance Fixed Plant Equipment
- Lead maintenance of crushers screens conveyors feeders magnetic separators hydraulic systems and other process and material-handling equipment.
- Develop and implement preventive predictive and condition-based maintenance programs.
- Troubleshoot equipment failures conduct root cause analysis and implement corrective actions to minimize recurring breakdowns.
- Ensure equipment reliability mechanical integrity and optimum asset utilization.
2. Electrical & Instrumentation Maintenance
- Manage maintenance of motors VFDs control panels MCCs transformers switchgear power distribution systems and electrical installations.
- Oversee PLCs sensors instrumentation and control systems in coordination with automation teams.
- Ensure electrical safety proper earthing equipment protection and compliance with applicable statutory requirements.
- Drive energy-efficiency initiatives and optimize electrical maintenance costs.
3. Mobile Equipment Maintenance
- Lead maintenance of heavy mobile equipment such as wheel loaders excavators dump trucks forklifts and other equipment deployed in slag handling metal recovery and plant operations.
- Ensure equipment availability and reliability through planned preventive maintenance condition monitoring and timely breakdown repairs.
- Oversee maintenance of engines transmissions hydraulic systems braking systems undercarriages electrical systems and associated components.
- Manage equipment inspections servicing schedules major overhauls and life-cycle maintenance planning.
- Monitor equipment utilization fuel consumption tyre life repair costs and recurring failures.
- Coordinate with OEMs authorized service providers and contractors for technical support repairs and warranty claims.
- Establish maintenance practices to improve fleet availability reduce operating costs and extend equipment life.
4. Maintenance Planning & Reliability
- Develop annual maintenance plans shutdown schedules overhaul programs and equipment replacement strategies.
- Monitor key reliability metrics including MTBF MTTR equipment availability and breakdown hours.
- Ensure timely completion of preventive maintenance schedules and maintenance work orders through CMMS or equivalent systems.
- Conduct root cause analysis of critical equipment failures and implement reliability improvement initiatives.
- Standardize maintenance practices across plant and mobile equipment operations.
5. Budget Spares & Vendor Management
- Prepare and manage maintenance budgets operating expenditure and capital expenditure proposals.
- Ensure optimal inventory of critical spares consumables tyres lubricants and other maintenance materials.
- Manage OEM relationships service contracts repair vendors and maintenance contractors.
- Optimize equipment ownership costs repair-versus-replacement decisions and maintenance expenditure.
6. EHS & Statutory Compliance
- Ensure adherence to company EHS policies permit-to-work requirements lockout/tagout (LOTO) and safe maintenance procedures.
- Ensure safe maintenance practices for electrical systems rotating machinery hydraulic systems and heavy mobile equipment.
- Conduct equipment safety inspections risk assessments and maintenance audits.
- Ensure applicable statutory inspections and compliance requirements are met.
- Drive corrective actions for maintenance-related incidents near misses and audit observations.
7. Team Leadership & Stakeholder Management
- Lead and develop mechanical and electrical engineers maintenance supervisors technicians and mobile equipment maintenance teams.
- Establish performance objectives technical training programs and clear accountability.
- Coordinate with Plant Heads Operations Production Procurement EHS and Finance teams to support uninterrupted operations.
- Provide technical leadership during critical breakdowns equipment commissioning and major maintenance projects.
Qualifications :
Required Skills & Experience
- 1520 years of experience in industrial maintenance preferably in steel plants mining cement mineral processing metal recovery or heavy engineering.
- Proven experience managing mechanical electrical and heavy mobile equipment maintenance.
- Strong knowledge of crushers screens conveyors material-handling systems motors drives hydraulic systems and industrial electrical installations.
- Hands-on experience maintaining heavy equipment such as wheel loaders excavators dump trucks and other industrial mobile machinery.
- Experience in preventive and predictive maintenance breakdown analysis reliability improvement and maintenance planning.
- Strong exposure to maintenance budgeting spares management OEM coordination and contractor management.
- Knowledge of industrial safety practices equipment inspections and applicable statutory compliance.
- Demonstrated ability to improve equipment availability reduce downtime and optimize maintenance costs.
- Solid leadership analytical troubleshooting and stakeholder management skills.