Engineer / Senior Engineer - Mechanical

Role & responsibilities

• Execute preventive and predictive maintenance schedules for tyre manufacturing equipment to maximise uptime and production continuity.
• Attend mechanical breakdowns, troubleshoot faults, restore equipment safely, and minimise MTTR.
• Monitor and improve MTBF, equipment availability, maintenance compliance, and repeat-failure trends.
• Perform root-cause analysis and implement corrective and preventive actions for chronic failures.
• Maintain mixers, mills, calenders, extruders, bead machines, tyre-building machines, conveyors, presses, curing equipment, material-handling systems, and associated utilities, as applicable.
• Troubleshoot hydraulic, pneumatic, lubrication, bearing, gearbox, coupling, chain, belt, piping, pump, valve, and rotating-equipment issues.
• Plan and execute shutdown, overhauling, alignment, installation, commissioning, and modification activities.
• Use condition-monitoring methods such as vibration, temperature, oil, noise, and visual inspection to identify potential failures.
• Prepare maintenance work orders, equipment history, checklists, spare-part requirements, and technical reports in SAP/CMMS or equivalent systems.
• Control critical spares, consumables, tools, and maintenance costs while preventing stock-outs.
• Support TPM, 5S, Kaizen, failure elimination, energy saving, and reliability-improvement initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with permit-to-work, LOTO, machine guarding, statutory, EHS, and quality requirements.
• Coordinate with Production and cross-functional teams for maintenance windows, trials, and process improvements.
• Guide technicians and contractors, verify job quality, and ensure safe work completion.

Preferred candidate profile

• Diploma / B.E. / B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from a recognised institution.
• Engineer: typically 36 years of relevant mechanical maintenance experience.
• Senior Engineer: typically 6–10 years of relevant experience, including ownership of maintenance activities or team coordination.
• Experience in tyre, rubber, automotive, process, or continuous manufacturing is preferred; direct tyre manufacturing maintenance experience will be an advantage.
• Willingness to work in rotational shifts and attend plant emergencies when required.