Front Line Officer

**Designation**:Senior Engineer

**Updated**:January 23, 2025

**Location**:Andhra Pradesh, India

**Organization**:Chemicals

**Job Purpose**:
Follow the instructions of instrumentation installation & project activities in VAPs plant to ensure and maximize the plant availability within the budgeted cost and time and ensuring quality, safety, environment and good maintenance practices to meet the desired level of productions.

**Job Context & Major Challenges**:
Chemicals Business of Aditya Birla Group produces Chlor-Alkali products among other Chemicals through seven units situated in different parts of the country. This is the Eighth unit which is under project phase. ABG is largest producer of Chlor Alkali in India with a market share of approx.30%.

One of its state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities is based at BBPURAM having the capacity to produce 400 TPD of Caustic. The Unit also produces Chlorine derivate namely Chlorinated Paraffin's (CP, Stable Bleaching Powder (SBP) & Monochloro Acetic Acid (MCA).

The unit, located in the East Godavari Dist. of AP state, is poised for an ambitious growth.

Major Challenges:
1. Accuracy and Calibration
2. Environmental Conditions
3. Integration and Compatibility
4. Troubleshooting and Diagnostics
5. Safety and Hazardous Areas
6. Reliability and Maintenance
7. Technological Advancements
8. Interdisciplinary Collaboration

**Key Result Areas**:
**KRA (Accountabilities) (Max 1325 Characters)**

**Supporting Actions (Max 1325 Characters)**
- KRA1
- Plant Maintenance:
Organize & co-ordinate execution of
Instrumentation maintenance activities
- '¢ Organize and review daily maintenance activities in the concerned areas so that the schedules are followed strictly and quality & timely completion is ensured
'¢ Check preventive maintenance, shutdown and predictive maintenance systems for abnormalities and take corrective action for elimination
'¢ Check breakdown failures, shutdown losses, maintenance expenditure, repair time, manpower cost, overtime every month and identify activities for improvement
'¢ Refer Chronic problems to superiors and concerned for advice and remedial measures
'¢ Monitoring OEE, MTBF & MTTR, gap identification and preparing action plan for improvement
'¢ Supervise resources during breakdowns, shutdowns & planned maintenance
'¢ Coordinate with purchase, stores & P&A to organize necessary resources like material & manpower for uninterrupted & timely completion of maintenance jobs
'¢ To ensure the availability of critical spares after identification by ABC analysis established in designated areas
- KRA2
- Plant Maintenance:
Organize & co-ordinate execution of
Instrumentation maintenance activities
- '¢ Manage shift activities and ensure availability of maintenance resources in all shifts
'¢ Timely communicate all requirement and issues to the Department Head and garner support and guidance
'¢ To ensure and implement safe working culture in the department by tool box talk, on job trainings etc.
'¢ To ensure & monitor calibration reports, material reservation, purchase requisitions and service entry through SAP for MIS to appraise management to take informed decision.
'¢ Ensure that SAP activities of material reservation, reports, service, entry etc are carried out departmentally for smooth procurement process.
- KRA3
- Planning & Budgeting, Cost Control and improvements
Check for Instrumentation maintenance expenditure to be within budgeted norms and plan and implement execution of improvement actions for cost optimization
- '¢ Framing P&B for the section and monitoring of departmental plans for execution of jobs related to allotted CAPEX and Major maintenance within stipulated budget & time.
'¢ Energy mapping, identifying energy conservation schemes and ensure implementation of schemes.
'¢ Maintain normal maintenance inventory within budget.
'¢ Compare electrical maintenance expenses on monthly basis and compare actual expenses against budget and take action to reduce variants
'¢ Suggest and implement measures in design/ modification for cost reduction
'¢ Carry out half yearly analysis for the consumption of spares and make action plan for optimized consumption
'¢ Assist in data collection, information to identify opportunities and Bottlenecks
'¢ Manage the inventory at an optimized level to minimize the working capital while ensuring the plant requirements and risks are addressed
'¢ Verify contractor bills for accuracy and certification of quality
'¢ Interact with vendors, contractors, OEM suppliers for technical discussions to freeze technical specification & scope of supply for procurement at optimum cost
'¢ Provide inputs to the DH in Planning& Budgeting for the Section
- KRA4
- MIS Reports and Documentation: Ensure timely update of all documents of the section
- '¢ Timely preparation of MIS report and all relevant documents
'¢ Ensure update of documents as per ISO and related
'¢ Assist and get timely audits done in the section
- KRA5
- Improveme