Manager - Mechanical & Utility

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Summary of the Role:

Lead and Maintain the Mechanical Maintenance & Utility processes, ensuring plant and equipment upkeep to support manufacturing activities with compliance to all related legal and Lubrizol HSES policies and requirements.

Responsibilities / Accountabilities:  

• Lead and maintain mechanical maintenance, modification and capex processes, so as to support manufacturing in achieving production plan.
• Identification, planning and procurement of spares, indigenous development of spares, workshop machining of plant equipments, AMC identification and finalization to have minimum breakdown time.
• Continuous on job & classroom Training, awareness and development of mechanical team & contractors to identify hazard, elimination of the same, following process/plant safety policies during all work execution as well as legal compliance.
• Development of indigenous vendors, vendor management and handling.
• Maintaining Records and documents as per ISO as well as department functions required.
• Manpower management and team development for complete plant functionality and as well as future roles
• maintain and sustain the manufacturing along with continuous improvement in production capacity/efficiency.
• Maintain and improve Utility operation & maintenance.
• Monitor daily utility generation and consumption, ensure energy efficient operation and maintenance of the quality of air/cooling and chilled water system.
• Maintenance of Utilities Compressor/Chillers/Cooling water/HVAC/Softener and ETP/STP.
• Plan as well as track & Monitor Opex expensed vs. budgeted.
• Ensuring 100% legal compliances applicable to department based on Factories act and other statutory bodies.
• Failure analysis & implement CAPA, Downtime control, Spares management, Equipment reliability study.
• Execution of Operational excellence projects and standardization projects at site.

        Requirements (education, experience, competencies and specific job requirements):

Education / Certification:

• Graduate in Mechanical Engineering

Experience and Skills:  

• Minimum 12 - 14 years’ experience of plant maintenance & utilities O & M in chemical & petrochemical plants.
• Knowledge of Plant maintenance in chemical plants
• Experience on Utility operation & maintenance
• Well conversant with industry best practices for plant maintenance, preventive and predictive maintenance
• Must have experience on planning, budgeting,
• Experience on Manpower management/Spare management
• Good interpersonal skills and network within region
• Experience in industry related to Batch operations,
• Previous experience of successfully managing maintenance & utility operations in multi-shift environment in an MNC having multi culture/diverse global environment
• Knowledge of Safety standards and legal requirements related to Mechanical function.
• Must be in department lead role in last 2-3 years.

If you’re interested in the position, we encourage you to apply. Lubrizol is always looking for candidates who embody our cultural beliefs in everything they do. If you’re All In, Lead Decisively, Take Action, Think External, and can Be Courageous, Lubrizol could be the place for you.