EXECUTIVE N - PLANT ENGINEERING

Asian Paints Limited; India; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Asian Paints Limited in India seeks a skilled Maintenance Engineer for plant instrumentation, DCS/PLC and field instrument care. You will lead maintenance planning, spare parts management, budgeting, and vendor coordination, while guiding a team of technicians and shift engineers.

The role emphasizes daily troubleshooting, LOTO procedures, and alignment with annual maintenance contracts, ensuring safe and efficient operation of critical systems.

Qualifications

• Well experienced in maintenance, troubleshooting & calibration of field instruments.
• Maintenance schedule preparation for all critical process control & monitoring system (DCS, PLC & Field Instrument) and ensure the proper and timely maintenance activities as per standard guidelines.
• Spares Management: Maintaining adequate inventory of spares and consumables towards Instrumentation asset.
• Hands on experience in Honeywell Fire alarm system
• Ensuring proper budgeting. Actual vs budget
• People Management: Direct & guide team members; counsel workmen & address grievances.
• Review performance to build a motivated team & a performance-oriented work culture.
• Vendor Management: Co-ordination with various instrumentation Vendors for procuring material, services & alternate solution with reasonable cost.

Responsibilities

• Prioritizing jobs to be done in the General shift and allotting work to operators in the Plant engineering department.
• Guiding / supporting technicians on day-to-day technical issues.
• Arranging for the spares required during the shift to attend to breakdown problems and maintaining the spares inventory.
• Meeting personnel of user departments to discuss and prepare appropriate action plans for problems of a repetitive nature and for jobs that require general shift manpower support.
• Conducting inspection of engineering stores inward material.
• Acknowledging breakdown intimations over phone from other departments and initiating work allotment through shift engineers or contract workmen. Responsible for conduct of LOTO procedure
• Contacting and coordinating with Service contract persons coming under the “Annual Maintenance Contract” for certain machinery / equipment.
• Floating inquiries, gathering quotations, and initiating PO

Skills

Maintenance

Troubleshooting

Calibration

Field instruments

DCS/PLC knowledge

Instrumentation budgeting

People management

Vendor management

Tools

Honeywell Fire alarm system

Job description

Responsibilities

• Prioritizing jobs to be done in the General shift and allotting work to operators in the Plant engineering department.
• Guiding / supporting technicians on day-to-day technical issues.
• Arranging for the spares required during the shift to attend to breakdown problems and maintaining the spares inventory.
• Meeting personnel of user departments to discuss and prepare appropriate action plans for problems of a repetitive nature and for jobs that require general shift manpower support.
• Conducting inspection of engineering stores inward material.
• Acknowledging breakdown intimations over phone from other departments and initiating work allotment through shift engineers or contract workmen. Responsible for conduct of LOTO procedure
• Contacting and coordinating with Service contract persons coming under the “Annual Maintenance Contract” for certain machinery / equipment.
• Floating inquiries, gathering quotations, and initiating PO

Brief description of knowledge and skills required

• Well experienced in maintenance, troubleshooting & calibration of field instruments.
• Maintenance schedule preparation for all critical process control & monitoring system (DCS, PLC & Field Instrument) and ensure the proper and timely maintenance activities as per standard guidelines.
• Spares Management: Maintaining adequate inventory of spares and consumables towards Instrumentation asset.
• Hands on experience in Honeywell Fire alarm system
• Ensuring proper budgeting. Actual vs budget
• People Management: Direct & guide team members; counsel workmen & address grievances.
• Review performance to build a motivated team & a performance-oriented work culture.
• Vendor Management: Co-ordination with various instrumentation Vendors for procuring material, services & alternate solution with reasonable cost.

Monthly Activities

• Ensuring periodical service visits by annual maintenance contract persons and reviewing contractor performance. Updating the service contract related ISO 9000 quality record.
• Ensuring the release of the Monthly Review Report on or before the 7th of every month.
• Compiling data for the updation of the Monthly Breakdown Analysis report (ISO 9001 quality record).
• Ensuring the completion of planned / shutdown activities in coordination with the various user departments.
• Reviewing monthly performance with department manager / Manager.
• Planning and implementation of jobs that have to be done on weekly off days and on holidays.

Yearly Activities

• Ensuring timely completion of planned annual overhauls for specified production equipment / utilities.
• Ensuring compliance with laid down statutory regulations like preparation of ZBR boiler for inspection for recertification, renewal of flow motors/ weighing
• Balances calibration certificates as per requirements of inspector of Metrology etc.
• Preparing engineering Budget estimates.
• Preparing NPC proposals.
• Coordinating with Personnel function for imparting technical training to user department Executive-Level Is and Executive-Level I engineers.
• Developing new vendors and suppliers.
• Proposing new methods / systems/mechanisms to the management which will conserve energy.