Engineering Head

Job Summary

Job Title Engineering Head

City, Country Asoj, Vadodara, India

Responsibilities Engineering & Asset Management

• Lead the engineering and maintenance function for the site ensuring optimum equipment reliability, availability, and lifecycle performance.
• Establish engineering standards, maintenance systems, and governance processes for all plant assets.
• Develop and maintain the site asset register and equipment criticality classification system.
• Define preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance strategies for all critical equipment.
• Ensure compliance with statutory, regulatory, safety, and company engineering requirements.
• Drive effective management of rotating, static, utility, electrical, instrumentation, and automation assets.
• Establish site engineering KPIs and monitor performance against reliability and efficiency targets.

Greenfield Project Handover & Operational Readiness

• Lead the engineering takeover of the greenfield facility from the project organization.
• Ensure complete transfer of technical documentation, drawings, manuals, spare parts, and maintenance requirements.
• Verify asset readiness, maintainability, reliability, and operability before production start-up.
• Support commissioning, qualification, startup, and stabilization activities.
• Establish long-term maintenance and asset management strategies during the transition phase.

Maintenance Excellence & Reliability

• Develop and deploy reliability-centered maintenance practices across the site.
• Implement robust planning and scheduling processes to improve maintenance effectiveness.
• Lead shutdown, turnaround, and major maintenance activities.
• Conduct Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) for critical equipment failures and implement corrective actions.
• Drive reduction in breakdowns, downtime, and maintenance costs through systematic reliability improvements.
• Establish spare parts management and inventory optimization processes.

TPM, 5S & Continuous Improvement

• Lead implementation and sustainability of TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) across the site.
• Drive Autonomous Maintenance, Planned Maintenance, and Focused Improvement pillars.
• Establish and sustain world-class 5S standards throughout engineering and production areas.
• Promote a culture of equipment ownership and operational discipline.
• Identify and implement productivity, reliability, and cost optimization initiatives.

Operational Excellence Collaboration

• Partner with Operational Excellence (OE) teams to execute plant improvement projects.
• Support Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, digitalization, and performance improvement programs.
• Provide engineering leadership for cost-saving and productivity-enhancement initiatives.
• Participate in cross-functional improvement projects and business transformation initiatives.

Budget & Resource Management

• Own the maintenance and engineering operating budgets.
• Prepare and manage annual maintenance expenditure plans.
• Develop and justify capital investment proposals required for asset reliability, compliance, and capacity enhancement.
• Ensure optimal utilization of engineering resources and external service providers.

Leadership & Capability Building

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing engineering and maintenance organization.
• Define competency development plans for engineering personnel.
• Coach and mentor engineers and technicians on best engineering and maintenance practices.
• Foster a culture of safety, accountability, teamwork, and continuous learning.

Safety, Quality & Compliance

• Ensure engineering activities are executed in compliance with HSE and Quality requirements.
• Support Process Safety Management (PSM) initiatives.
• Participate in risk assessments, audits, and compliance programs.
• Ensure contractor safety management and engineering work permit compliance.

Required Qualifications

• 15-20+ years of engineering and maintenance experience in chemical, specialty chemicals, pharmaceutical, FMCG, food, or process industries.
• Minimum 5 years of leadership experience managing engineering and maintenance functions.
• Experience in greenfield project handover and plant startup is highly desirable.
• Strong knowledge of TPM, Reliability Engineering, Asset Management, Maintenance Excellence, and Continuous Improvement systems.

Technical Competencies

• Asset Reliability Management
• Equipment Criticality Assessment
• TPM Deployment
• Preventive & Predictive Maintenance
• Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA)
• Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM)
• Condition Monitoring
• SAP PM / CMMS
• Shutdown & Turnaround Management
• Utilities Management
• Engineering Standards & Governance
• Operational Excellence & Lean Manufacturing
• Budget Management