SENIOR EXECUTIVE - PLANT ENGINEERING

Asian Paints Limited; India; On-site; INR 450,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

Asian Paints Limited seeks an instrumentation and plant engineering professional to direct daily activities within the General shift, guiding technicians on technical issues and ensuring timely maintenance for critical process controls.

The role covers coordinating spares, liaising with service contractors under Annual Maintenance Contract, and driving reliability improvements across plant instrumentation and DCS/PLC systems.

Qualifications

• Experience in maintenance and calibration of field instruments.
• Hands-on knowledge of DCS/PLC systems and automation troubleshooting.
• Ability to coordinate with vendors for spares and services.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize and allocate maintenance work for plant instrumentation.
• Guide technicians on day-to-day technical issues and reliability strategies.
• Maintain spares inventory and coordinate with service contracts.
• Lead preventive maintenance planning for critical process controls.
• Monitor instrumentation performance and support new automation initiatives.
• Manage budget and direct team performance.

Skills

Instrumentation maintenance

DCS/PLC troubleshooting

Preventive maintenance

Vendor coordination

Team leadership

Tools

ABB 800xA DCS

Siemens PLC

Allen-Bradley PLC

Honeywell Fire alarm

Profibus DP

ProfNet

Job description

Daily Activities

• Prioritizing jobs to be done in the General shift and allotting work to operators in the Plant engineering department.
• Guiding / supporting technicians onday-to-daytechnical issues.
• Arranging for the spares required during the shift to attend to breakdown problems andmaintainingthe spares inventory.
• Meeting personnel of user departments to discuss and prepareappropriate actionplans for problems of a repetitive nature and for jobs that require general shiftmanpowersupport.
• Conducting inspection of engineering stores inward material.
• Acknowledging breakdown intimations over phone from other departments and initiating work allotment through shift engineers or contractworkmen. 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, andinitiatingPO
• Brief description of knowledge and skillsrequired.
• Hands on experience of various type of monitoring & measuring instrumentation. (Level, Flow, Temperature, Pressure, Weighing system)
• Hands on experience of ABB 800xA DCS Platform & PLC (AB, Siemens) system. Logic development, Software trouble shooting, Graphic development, Alarm, event, trend & Report configuration. Logic development in FBD, ST, SFC, Ladder logic. Supporting new automation initiatives at Plant (e.g., local communication, Enterprise Asset Management, Efficiency improvement tools etc)
• Basic understanding of communication topology or network. Checking the health of the communication topology (Profibus DP & ProfNet) and taking necessary actions.
• Well experienced in maintenance,troubleshooting & calibration of field instruments.
• Maintenance schedulepreparation forall critical process control & monitoring system (DCS, PLC & FieldInstrument) and ensure the proper andtimelymaintenance activities as per standard guidelines.
• SparesManagement: -Maintaining adequate inventory of spares and consumables towards Instrumentation asset.
• Hands on experience in Honeywell Fire alarm system
• Ensuring properbudgeting. Actualvsbudget
• PeopleManagement: -Direct & guide team members; counselworkmen& addressgrievances.
• Review performancetobuild a motivated team &aperformance-orientedwork culture.
• VendorManagement: -Co-ordination with various instrumentation Vendors forprocuringmaterial, services & alternate solution with reasonable cost.