Site Manager - RD Mines

Epiroc Mining India; Udaipur District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Epiroc Mining India seeks a Site Manager - RD Mines to lead safety and maintenance operations at the Udaipur site. You will drive critical maintenance initiatives, manage a large team, and ensure adherence to safety and environmental standards while meeting contractual targets.

The role requires 5–10 years of supervisory experience, strong communication, and the ability to optimize uptime and costs. You will report to the Operations Manager and coordinate with site planners to sustain asset

Qualifications

• BE or Diploma in Electrical/Electronics/Mechanical engineering.
• 5–10 years of experience in a similar field.
• Experience supervising a team of 50+ personnel.
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written.
• Financial acumen and understanding of cost implications.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safety, compliance governance with Code of Conduct and site policies.
• Demonstrate safety leadership and enforce safe practices across teams.
• Oversee maintenance planning, preventive/corrective/predictive work, and asset performance.
• Manage site KPIs, maintenance costs, and reliability metrics.
• Lead root cause analysis and implement corrective actions.
• Coordinate resources, spares, and maintenance planning with site planner.
• Maintain customer relations and act as operational interface for client.
• Develop team Leaders and conduct performance reviews.

Skills

Communication

Financial acumen

Reliability focus

Conflict management

Presentation skills

Safety leadership

Problem solving

Cost consciousness

Team leadership

Education

BE / Diploma in Electrical / Electronics / Mechanical Engineering

Job description

Position

Site Manager - RD Mines

Location

Udadpur

Responsibilities

• Safety, Compliance Governance: Ensure full compliance with Epiroc Code of Conduct, applicable safety requirements, environmental standards, statutory requirements, and customer/site-specific policies.
• Demonstrate visible safety leadership and ensure engineers, technicians and supporting teams consistently follow safe and environmentally responsible working practices.
• Ensure effective implementation and follow-up of safety interactions, risk assessments, inspections, audits, incident investigations and corrective actions.
• Operational Maintenance Management: Assist the Operations Manager (OM) in managing Epiroc Mining India Pvt. Ltd. assets to achieve optimum equipment performance, reliability and availability at the lowest sustainable total cost of ownership.
• Take ownership of overall site operational results, contractual commitments, service targets and agreed KPIs.
• Ensure effective planning and execution of Preventive, Corrective and Predictive Maintenance, inspections, condition monitoring, backlog management and major component replacements.
• Drive improvement in key maintenance indicators including machine availability, reliability, MTBF, MTTR, PM/CBM compliance and backlog closure.
• Ensure proper Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for repetitive and critical failures, with timely implementation and effectiveness monitoring of corrective/preventive actions.
• Review equipment health and maintenance performance regularly and initiate improvement actions to minimize breakdowns and unplanned downtime.
• Planning, Spares Cost Control: Ensure critical-parts availability through effective inventory management, min-max planning, forecasting and major-component planning.
• Coordinate maintenance planning along with site planner with parts requirements so that planned jobs and major overhauls are adequately supported.
• Optimize site operating and maintenance costs without compromising safety, reliability, contractual obligations or equipment performance.
• Drive effective utilization of manpower, tools, infrastructure and other site resources.
• Contract Commercial Performance: Ensure achievement of contractual KPIs, particularly machine availability, reliability, service performance and profitability.
• Monitor site performance against agreed targets and initiate recovery plans where performance falls below expectations.
• Support the OM with site performance reviews, forecasts, operational risks, cost-control initiatives and business improvement opportunities.
• Customer Management: Act as a key operational interface with the customer and maintain a customer-centric approach across the site team.
• Conduct regular customer meetings to understand operational priorities, equipment concerns and upcoming requirements, and translate agreed actions into field execution.
• Maintain transparent communication regarding machine performance, major breakdowns, maintenance plans, critical spares and improvement actions.
• Ensure timely closure of customer concerns and agreed action points.
• People Leadership Development: Lead, coach and develop Team Leaders and site personnel, creating clear accountability for safety, maintenance quality, productivity and operational results.
• Develop the leadership capability of Team Leaders while identifying and grooming potential talent in coordination with the OM.
• Conduct Performance Development Reviews, provide constructive feedback, identify competency gaps and establish development/training plans.
• Promote teamwork, accountability, ownership, innovation and continuous improvement.
• Ensure adequate manpower competency and deployment according to operational requirements.

Qualifications and Experience

• B.E / Diploma in Electrical / Electronics / Mechanical Engineering
• 5 to 10 years of experience in similar field
• Experience of handling team more than 50 is preferred
• Min. 5 years supervisory experience on similar roles and additionally 5 years experience on team leader role. He must have handled a maintenance workforce of more than 50 people
• Good communication skills oral written
• Financial acumen and understanding of cost implications and costing models
• Understanding equipment reliability and availability requirements and implications
• Conflict management skills
• Sound customer liaison and negotiation skills
• Excellent Presentation Skills

Key Competencies

• Safety-first leadership
• Customer focus
• Ownership accountability
• Operational excellence
• People leadership
• Proactive problem solving
• Cost consciousness
• Continuous improvement
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA)