EXECUTIVE N - PLANT ENGINEERING

Asian Paints; Lonavala; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Asian Paints in Maharashtra is seeking an experienced Plant Maintenance Engineer to oversee shift-based maintenance, prioritizing tasks and guiding operators in the General shift.

You will coordinate with technicians, arrange spares, review breakdowns, and ensure compliance with safety protocols including LOTO.

The role emphasizes budgeting, vendor liaison, and continuous improvement to minimize downtime across process control systems.

Qualifications

• Maintenance, troubleshooting and calibration of field instruments.
• Maintenance schedule for DCS, PLC and field instruments per guidelines.
• Spares management and inventory control.
• Hands-on experience with Honeywell Fire alarm system.
• Budgeting: track Actual vs budget.
• People management and team guidance.
• Vendor coordination for procurement and cost optimization.
• Review performance to foster a motivated team.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize jobs in General shift and allocate work to Plant engineering operators.
• Guide technicians on day-to-day technical issues.
• Arrange spares and maintain spares inventory during shifts.
• Meet user department personnel to plan actions for repetitive issues and general shift manpower.
• Inspect engineering stores inward material.
• Acknowledge breakdown alerts via phone and initiate work through shift engineers or contract workers; ensure LOTO.
• Coordinate with Service contract personnel under Annual Maintenance Contract for machinery.
• Floating inquiries, gather quotations, and raise purchase orders.

Skills

Maintenance & calibration

Maintenance scheduling

Spare parts management

People management

Performance review

Vendor management

LOTO compliance

Budgeting

Tools

Honeywell Fire alarm system

Job description

Description

Key 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

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

Yearly Activities

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

Executive-Level Is and Executive-Level I engineers