Job Purpose
Ensure effective maintenance, operation, and optimization of utility systems to maximize plant availability and reliability while complying with safety, statutory, IMS, and ESG requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
Equipment Maintenance & Optimization
- Monitor utility equipment and processes to identify operational bottlenecks and implement improvement solutions.
- Plan and execute preventive and predictive maintenance programs to ensure uninterrupted utility operations.
- Optimize system performance to improve efficiency, reliability, and energy utilization.
Breakdown Management & Corrective Actions
- Attend and manage utility equipment breakdowns to minimize downtime and restore operations swiftly.
- Analyze equipment failure data and operational trends to identify root causes.
- Plan, implement, and track corrective and preventive actions to avoid recurrence of failures.
- Utility Operations (Hot & Cold Utilities)
- Operate and maintain utilities including boilers (coal-fired mandatory), chillers, brine chillers, cooling towers, air compressors, ice plant, heat exchangers, pumps, and VAM systems.
- Handle water treatment systems including RO Plant, DM Plant, and Water Treatment Plant.
- Ensure continuous and reliable supply of utilities to plant operations.
- Resource Planning, Cost & Spare Parts Management
- Ensure availability of critical spare parts at optimum inventory levels and minimal cost.
- Monitor maintenance expenditure and prepare periodic cost reports.
- Identify cost-saving opportunities through operational and maintenance efficiencies.
- Safety, IMS & ESG Compliance
- Ensure strict adherence to workplace safety standards and statutory requirements.
- Participate in safety trainings, audits, and incident reporting.
- Comply with IMS documentation, audits, and corrective action processes.
- Support ESG initiatives by promoting energy efficiency, environmental compliance, and resource conservation.
Qualifications
- B.E / B.Tech Mechanical Engineering
- Preferred: MBA in Operations Management
Experience:
- 4 to 8 years of relevant experience in utility operations and maintenance in a manufacturing / process industry.
Skill Sets
- Technical Skills (Must Have)
- Hands‑on experience with hot and cold utilities.
- Mandatory experience in coal-fired boiler operations.
- Strong knowledge of:
- Chillers, Brine Chillers
- Heat Exchangers
- Cooling Towers
- Ice Plant
- Air Compressors
- Pumps Selection
- RO Plant, DM Plant, Water Treatment Plant
- VAM Operations
- SAP is must (Maintenance / Utility Modules)
- Expertise in breakdown maintenance, preventive maintenance schedules, and root cause analysis.
- Ability to interpret and apply technical manuals and SOPs.
- Knowledge of energy management, environmental engineering, safety management, and project management.
- Good to Have
- Experience in power plant operations.
- Advanced root cause analysis exposure.
- Broader exposure to boiler and utility optimization projects.