Maintenance Engineer

Lawson Fuses; Panchmahal District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Lawson Fuses is seeking an experienced Maintenance Leader responsible for maintaining Plant & Machinery, leading a team of technicians, electricians and fitters, and driving preventive and predictive maintenance programs across the site.

You will drive cost-control, prepare maintenance reports, coordinate with production, manage spare parts inventory, and oversee new machine installations while ensuring ISO compliance and health & safety standards.

Qualifications

• Degree or Diploma in Electrical & Electronics.
• Good working knowledge of shop floor machineries like SPMs, Robots, Pneumatic Presses & various utility machines.

Responsibilities

• Maintain Plant & Machinery per PM schedule to minimize downtime.
• Manage maintenance team (technician, electrician, fitter) and field coordination with production.
• Coordinate with suppliers for spare parts and budgeting; source quotes from multiple vendors.
• Plan and execute preventive maintenance and CI projects; prepare maintenance reports daily/weekly.
• Oversee installation of new machinery and improve process layouts with other departments.

Skills

Manpower management

Team leadership

Electrical control panels

Maintenance scheduling

Problem solving under pressure

Education

Degree or Diploma in Electrical & Electronics

Job description

Job Purpose

• Maintaining the Plant & Machinery for a good working condition
• To manage a team consists of maintenance technician, electricians to carry out maintenance department activities.
• To involve in all expansion and improvement projects
• Maintaining the documentation related the maintenance activities and machine history.
• Automation of manufacturing process & design and build machines for inhouse production requirement.

Direct Reports: 4

Key Accountabilities

• To ensure the Plant and machinery and maintained as per PM schedule to achieve near to ‘zero downtime
• Ensure the Maintenance records and machine history were up to date and maintained as per ISO requirements.
• Monitoring and reporting the machine condition on monthly basis.
• Coordination with production functions and Assembly cells to execute ‘preventive and predictive’ maintenance schedules for on time execution.
• Should contact various machine manufacturers and suppliers for sourcing out spare parts locally and overseas.
• Getting quotes for spare parts from several suppliers, negotiating and Ordering for the plant and machinery maintenance.
• Manage the maintenance team consists of technician, electrician & fitter reporting to them.
• Involve in cost cutting activities and continuous improvement projects with team and individual.
• Actively involvement in machinery Spare parts inventory control and optimization to reduce inventory carrying costs.
• Identify and train the Maintenance team members as per the requirement and maintain the training matrix.
• Developing maintenance team for multitasking to increase the flexibility in the department.
• To actively involve in new machinery installation activity.
• To work with other departments in implementing improved process layouts and contribute to work as a team to achieve organizational goals like productivity improvement, cost reduction, waste reduction, better housekeeping standards, health and safety standards etc.
• PLC /HMI / VFD / PID / Process instrumentation programming.
• Implementing environment friendly measures on a continuous scale in Machinery and Equipment Service and Maintenance
• Should be actively involved in complying in H&S and 14000 standards during work.

Job context

Maintaining the Plant & Machinery for a good working condition

• To ensure the Plant and machinery and maintained as per PM schedule to achieve near to ‘zero downtime
• Ensure the Maintenance records and machine history were up to date and maintained as per ISO requirements
• Monitoring and reporting the machine condition on monthly basis.
• Coordination with production functions and Assembly cells to execute ‘preventive and predictive’ maintenance schedules for on time execution.
• Getting quotes for spare parts from several suppliers, negotiating and Ordering for the plant and machinery maintenance.
• Involve in yearly budgeting of Plant and machinery and Repair and maintenance.
• Maintaining basic required spare parts for machineries.
• To manage a team consists of maintenance technician, electrician, and fitter to carry out maintenance department activities.
• Plan and execute Preventive Maintenance plan as per its schedule with the team
• Plan and schedule breakdown calls based on priority.
• Plan and schedule process improvement and CI projects.
• Preparation of maintenance report on daily basis.
• Scheduling team members for machine run hours data collection and updating system on monthly basis.
• Scheduling team member for electricity and water consumption data collection and updating system on weekly basis.
• Scheduling team members to execute JAFZA OFC related test and requirements.
• Identify and train the Maintenance team members as per the requirement and maintain the training matrix.
• Developing maintenance team for multitasking to increase the flexibility in the department

To involve in all expansion and improvement projects

• Preparation of site for new machine installation.
• Assisting team members in preparation of machine layout.
• Assisting production and production engineering in selection of machineries.
• Decommission and relocation of old machineries.
• Scheduling team members for new machine installation.
• To work with other departments in implementing improved process layouts and contribute to work as a team to achieve organizational goals like productivity improvement, cost reduction, waste reduction, better housekeeping standards, health and safety standards etc.
• Maintaining the documentation related the maintenance activities and machine history.

Preparation of PM and OPM check list based on machine manufacturer recommendation.

• Preparation of half yearly PM schedule and circulating to production department.
• Printing and displaying of OPM checklist on monthly basis.
• Preparation of hard copy maintenance report on daily basis for PM and BM activity.
• Tabulation the data from maintenance report to excel file as per system
• Monthly machine run hour monitoring and publishing machine up time details.
• Monitoring the status of actual PM status and reporting.
• Monitoring the actual H&S and Machine technical related training hours and reporting.
• Assigning machine code to new asset as per the asset register.
• Automation of manufacturing process & design and build machines for inhouse production requirement.
• Preparation of concept for in-house machine manufacturing.
• PLC /HMI / VFD / PID / Process instrumentation programming.

Qualifications, Experience & Skills

• Degree or Diploma in Electrical & Electronics
• Should have good working knowledge about the shop floor machineries like SPM’S, Robots, Pneumatic Presses & Various Utility machines.

Minimum Experience

• Minimum 7 to 9 years of experience in Maintenance department – Machinery /Factory maintenance

Job-Specific Skills

• Good working knowledge in Electrical and Electronic control panels
• Should poses good manpower managing skills
• Should be able to handle demanding and stressful situations without compromise on work quality.
• Should have sound knowledge about the basic industrial machinery mechanical systems and working principles.
• Basic knowledge in spare parts inventory management.

Behavioural Competencies

• Should be able to work independently and with guidance.
• Should be able to work along with team members and lead team.
• Should be active and energetic.