Maintenance Manager

Rama Pure Water; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Rama Pure Water in Chennai is seeking a Maintenance Manager to lead plant maintenance, improve reliability, and drive TPM initiatives. You will develop and implement comprehensive maintenance strategies for electrical, mechanical, and utility systems, coordinating with production and quality teams.

The role requires strong leadership, RCA expertise, and hands-on experience with PLCs, ERP/SAP, and safety compliance to sustain high uptime and compliant operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Electrical & Electronics, Mechanical, or related field.
• Extended maintenance experience in manufacturing with leadership exposure.
• Licence or certification as applicable to local regulations.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and improve preventive, predictive, corrective, and breakdown maintenance programs to maximize uptime.
• Create annual, monthly, weekly, and daily maintenance schedules including shutdown planning.
• Lead, supervise, and develop the maintenance team including engineers, supervisors, technicians, and contractors.
• Analyze equipment failures using RCA and implement corrective actions to reduce downtime.
• Monitor maintenance KPIs such as uptime, costs, and schedule compliance.
• Implement TPM and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Coordinate with Production, Quality, Engineering, and Purchase to meet goals.
• Prepare and manage the maintenance budget and optimize expenses.
• Manage spare parts inventory and vendor relationships for timely availability.
• Ensure statutory compliance, inspections, and liaison with authorities.
• Oversee HT/LT panels, transformers, substations, DG sets, HVAC, water treatment, and other systems.
• Lead installation, commissioning, testing, and plant modifications.
• Maintain logs, reports, inventories, downtime analyses, and ERP records.
• Ensure safety standards and environmental compliance in maintenance operations.
• Drive energy-saving initiatives and reliability improvement projects.
• Experience in PLC hardware/software handling; civil works knowledge is a plus.

Skills

Preventive maintenance

Predictive maintenance

Root Cause Analysis

Team leadership

Budget management

Safety compliance

Electrical

PLC knowledge

SAP ERP

TPM experience

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering

Tools

ERP/SAP maintenance modules

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTIO OF MAINTENANCE MANAGER

• Develop, implement, and continuously improve preventive, predictive, corrective, and breakdown maintenance programs for plant machinery and utilities to maximize equipment reliability, machine uptime, and plant availability.
• Develop annual, monthly, weekly, and daily maintenance schedules, including planning and execution of annual maintenance shutdowns with minimal impact on production.
• Lead, supervise, and develop the maintenance team, including engineers, supervisors, technicians, and contractors.
• Analyze equipment failures using Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and implement corrective and preventive actions to reduce machine downtime and repeat failures.
• Monitor maintenance KPIs such as equipment uptime, maintenance cost, and schedule compliance.
• Implement TPM (Total Productive Maintenance), Autonomous Maintenance, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Coordinate closely with Production, Quality, Engineering, and Purchase departments to achieve operational goals.
• Prepare and manage the maintenance budget, optimize repair, spare parts, power, and fuel expenses, and ensure effective resource utilization.
• Manage spare parts inventory, critical spares, consumables, and vendor relationships to ensure timely availability.
• Ensure statutory compliance, equipment inspections, documentation, and liaison with regulatory authorities such as the Electricity Board.
• Oversee maintenance of HT & LT panels, power and distribution transformers, substations, generators/DG sets, compressors, boilers, chillers, HVAC systems, water treatment plants, hydraulic, pneumatic, mechanical, electrical, and utility systems.
• Lead installation, commissioning, testing, inspection, validation, and plant modifications to ensure operational effectiveness.
• Maintain accurate maintenance logs, service reports, inventory usage, downtime analysis, and equipment records through ERP/SAP.
• Ensure adherence to safety standards, environmental regulations, compliance policies, and company procedures to achieve safe maintenance operations for men and machines.
• Drive energy-saving initiatives and equipment reliability improvement projects.
• Experience in PLC machine handling, including hardware and software.
• Knowledge of civil-related works will be an added advantage.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor's Degree (B.E./B.Tech.) in Electrical Engineering, Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related engineering discipline.
• 1015 years of maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment, including a minimum of 5 years in a Maintenance Manager or leadership role.
• Holding C Licence Mandatory.
• Strong knowledge of mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, automation, PLCs, and industrial instrumentation systems.
• Working knowledge of TPM, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Reliability Engineering, Predictive Maintenance techniques, and SAP/ERP maintenance modules.
• Strong understanding of industrial safety standards and statutory compliance requirements.
• Strong team management, leadership, planning, communication, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic manufacturing environment.
• Ability to develop short-term and long-term maintenance strategies aligned with the overall production plan.