Duty Manager

Cushman & Wakefield Property Management Services India Private Limited; Chennai; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Cushman & Wakefield in Chennai, India, is seeking a Duty Manager to oversee shift operations, equipment maintenance, and safety compliance. The role requires coordinating maintenance activities, OHS&W training, and ensuring adequate staffing for safe plant operation.

The Duty Manager will drive incident reporting, enforce SOPs, and liaise with engineers to maintain process control systems while supporting budgeting and resource planning.

Responsibilities

• 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/Business continuity plan to respond to emergency situations
• 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.
• Able to lead down team to run the shift operations smoothly Staff’s discipline and well being.

Job description

Job Title Duty Manager

Job Description Summary

Job Description 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 Staff’s discipline and well being.

INCO: “Cushman & Wakefield”

About Cushman & Wakefield Cushman & Wakefield Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) is a leading global commercial real estate services firm for occupiers and investors with approximately 53,000 employees in over 350 offices and nearly 60 countries. In 2025, the firm reported revenue of $10.3 billion across its core service lines of services, Leasing, Capital markets, and Valuation and other. Built around the belief that Better never settles, the firm receives numerous industry and business accolades for its award-winning culture. For additional information, visit www.cushmanwakefield.com