Immediate Start: Manager

Job Description How You Will Contribute - Guide and drive Team for maintenance excellence through maintenance program based on best practices in the industry, with an emphasis on planning/scheduling and preventive/predictive maintenance. - Monitor the use and inventories of spare parts, maintenance supplies, equipments and take corrective actions/guide team when necessary. - Establish and ensure effectiveness of maintenance management system (MMS) for tracking work orders, spare parts, and maintenance history of plant equipment. - Lead a team of 10 contractors. - Supervise & guide plant maintenance personnel to perform their allocated tasks. - Ensure that maintenance team members are adequately trained, equipped, and motivated so that the maintenance program can be accomplished in a safe, timely, and cost-effective manner. - Communicate regularly with all maintenance team members, both individually and as a group, to ensure good two-way communication concerning maintenance issues. - Conduct employee performance reviews based on job descriptions to determine competency, knowledge, and contribution of the maintenance team members. - Ensure training document/manuals are updated for the maintenance department. - Ensure that all maintenance technicians are trained on the most updated version of the operating procedures. - Review the operation of plant equipment and systems constantly, to minimize unplanned downtime, anticipate solve problems in a timely manner, and to identify opportunities for improvement. - Initiate and carry out projects that improve efficiency and/or reduce operating costs. - Track, analyze and improve key maintenance parameters such as asset utilization, maintenance cost, PM compliance, schedule compliance, etc. - Drive minor capital projects and purchases related to Maintenance. - Responsible for budgeting and procurement of materials/services for smooth functioning of the department. - Work with sourcing to qualify new vendors as per IFF s Standards. - Ensure the department s functioning as per full compliance with ISO / FSSC standards / procedures. - Lead Mechanical Integrity and Quality Assurance element of PSM for Sohna site operation. Facilitate & guide towards compliance to stated requirement of this element as per PSM standard. - Lead Machine safety / other safety implementation at Sohna operation. Facilitate & guide unit leads towards compliance to stated requirement of this standard. - Implementation of best practices at Maintenance function. Identify various improvement opportunities & cascade down the maintenance KPIs throughout the maintenance team. - Liaison with Govt. Official (Electrical Inspector, Fire Safety, Weights and Measure inspector). - Ensure and Track RTO compliance related to maintenance function. - Ensure smooth functionality of engineering stores. - Continuously work on improvements in Utility and process equipment s, reduce time and mean time between failures. - Continue to track energy consumption at site and carry out conservation measures, - Support and implement the food safety requirement. - Plan and execute annual capital budget projects timely without cost overrun using Ecosys project management software. - Continue to make improvements in Maintenance practices, Equipment, AMC and Energy Consumption etc. What you will need to be successful - Bachelor s degree in mechanical engineering or any other relevant or equivalent discipline. - Minimum 10-12 years of industrial and professional experience preferably in a Food or FMCG industry with minimum 2-4 years of team supervisory experience. - Operations / Capital management experience preferred. - Demonstrated leadership, collaboration and project management skills. - Experience in EHS environment is preferred. - Proven ability to lead cultural change and create winning teams. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills. - Well versed with Microsoft applications (Word, Excel, Presentation). - Ability to solve complex problems and develop solutions. - Previous operations experience with Safety, Food Safety, FAMI-QS, ISO 14001, and Process Safety regulations is highly regarded.