Duty Manager

Cushman & Wakefield; Chennai; On-site; INR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Cushman & Wakefield Chennai is seeking a Duty Manager to oversee shift operations and ensure safe, smooth facility management. The role involves supervising equipment performance, enforcing preventive maintenance, and coordinating staff training and resources to support operations.

The candidate will participate in OHS&W meetings, manage safety procedures, and ensure thorough shift handovers and checklist completion to uphold high standards of reliability and safety on site.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a shift operations team.
• Solid understanding of occupational health & safety standards.
• Experience in budget planning and cost control.

Responsibilities

• Ensure smooth operation of all equipment and systems during shifts.
• Monitor preventive maintenance per schedule and ensure timely execution.
• Provide resources and time for staff training, facilities, and accommodations.
• Attend and address OHS&W meetings and issues.
• Ensure proper shift handover and complete daily/weekly/monthly checklists.
• Coordinate with shift engineers and maintenance teams to support plant operation.
• Assist in budget planning and control.

Skills

Leadership

OHS&W compliance

Budget management

Job description

Job Title

Duty Manager

Key Accountabilities and Duties

• To take care of smooth operation of all equipment
• To control and monitor the preventive maintenance carried out as per schedule.
• To provide the resource and time for OHS&W training, work places, accommodation and facilities for staff.
• To attend OHS&W meeting and addressing OHS&W issues.
• Ensure SO observation completion as per roaster.
• To perform actions as per role defined in EPRP/Buisness continuity plan to respond to emergency situtaions
• Ensures that the shift has a sufficient number of qualified employees to safely operate the facility.
• Controls the plant process and electrical distribution through the plant Distributive Control System and other process control devices.
• Identifies any problems with plant equipment and clearly communicates the conditions associated with these problems to the Plant Maintenance Team.
• Directs the activities of Plant Operators as necessary to support the overall plant operation.
• Ensures the completeness of shift round checklists, routine daily/weekly/monthly test checklists and equipment change-over checklists, etc.
• Coordinates with Shift Charge Engineers of other shifts.
• Assists in budget planning and control.

Authority

• To assist in issue/ cancel permit for any planned activity
• To STOP any unsafe work as reported by workmen or self observed
• Periodically inspect the logbooks, checklists and PPM schedule for a better management of Engineering system
• To ensure all SOPs, guidelines are adhered to, understood and implemented
• To ensure proper hand over / take over during each shift

OHS&W Responsibility

• To ensure Brookfield OHS&W Policy is understood by self and co-workers.
• To ensure Arliga safety management system is implemented and communicated to the team.
• To ensure OHS&W objective are understood and individual objectives are completed as per the defined target date.
• To identify risk at his work place, control measures are implemented and communicated to concerned employees.
• Actively Participation in Employee Consultation Forum and other OHS&W related meetings.
• To report all incidents, NMCs, SOs that have occurred are reported and take participation as per procedures.
• To ensure work is carried out as per the Permit to Work standard and also implementation of all identified control measures as per risk assessment (JSA, HIRA, TBT, etc.)
• To attend all the training as per TNI and Training plan.
• To ensure that all OHS&W related documents are maintained, tracked and tracked as per assigned responsibility.
• Any other task/responsibility assigned by the management time to time

People Management Responsibilities

• Able to lead down team to run the shift operations smoothly
• Staffs discipline and well being.