Head Maintenance

1. Maintenance Strategy & Leadership

• Develop and implement the plant's overall maintenance and asset reliability strategy.
• Lead the maintenance, engineering, facilities, and technical teams.
• Establish preventive, predictive, corrective, and condition-based maintenance programs.
• Develop annual maintenance plans, manpower requirements, budgets, and capital expenditure proposals.
• Establish maintenance standards, procedures, and work instructions.
• Develop technical capability through training, coaching, and succession planning.

2. Equipment Reliability & Availability

• Ensure high availability and reliability of production equipment and critical assets.
• Monitor equipment downtime, breakdown frequency, MTBF, MTTR, and maintenance effectiveness.
• Identify critical equipment and establish appropriate maintenance strategies.
• Lead root-cause analysis for major and recurring equipment failures.
• Implement permanent corrective and preventive actions.
• Drive continuous improvement to improve equipment reliability and productivity.

3. Preventive & Predictive Maintenance

• Establish and maintain effective preventive maintenance schedules.
• Implement predictive maintenance techniques such as vibration monitoring, thermography, oil analysis, condition monitoring, and other appropriate technologies.
• Ensure timely completion and proper documentation of maintenance activities.
• Review maintenance frequency and optimize maintenance plans based on equipment condition and historical data.
• Implement Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) principles where applicable.

4. Breakdown & Emergency Management

• Lead the response to major equipment breakdowns and production interruptions.
• Ensure effective troubleshooting and rapid restoration of equipment.
• Establish escalation procedures for critical breakdowns.
• Conduct post-breakdown analysis and ensure corrective actions are completed.
• Maintain appropriate critical spare parts and emergency resources.

5. Utilities & Facilities Management

• Oversee maintenance and reliability of plant utilities, including:

  • Electrical power distribution
  • Compressed air
  • HVAC and ventilation
  • Chillers and cooling systems
  • Boilers and steam systems, where applicable
  • Water and wastewater systems
  • Fire protection systems
  • Building and facility infrastructure

• Ensure utilities are available, reliable, and operated efficiently.

• Drive energy conservation and utility cost-reduction initiatives.

6. Maintenance Budget & Cost Control

• Prepare and manage the annual maintenance operating budget.
• Control maintenance spending while maintaining equipment reliability and safety.
• Optimize maintenance manpower, contractors, spare parts, and service costs.
• Establish spare-parts inventory controls and critical-stock levels.
• Identify and deliver maintenance cost-reduction opportunities.
• Prepare and justify CAPEX proposals for equipment replacement, upgrades, and reliability improvements.

7. Engineering & Project Support

• Provide maintenance and engineering input for new equipment and production-line projects.
• Participate in equipment specification, technical evaluation, installation, commissioning, and acceptance.
• Ensure maintainability, reliability, safety, and spare-parts requirements are considered during equipment selection.
• Support automation, equipment upgrades, capacity expansion, and plant improvement projects.
• Ensure proper handover of new assets into the maintenance system.

8. Safety, Compliance & Risk Management

• Ensure maintenance activities comply with company safety standards and applicable statutory requirements.
• Implement safe work practices, including Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), permit-to-work, electrical safety, confined-space requirements, and working-at-height controls where applicable.
• Ensure maintenance personnel and contractors are properly trained and authorized.
• Conduct maintenance risk assessments and ensure corrective actions are implemented.
• Support regulatory inspections, audits, and certification requirements.

9. Contractor & Supplier Management

• Manage maintenance contractors, service providers, and technical suppliers.
• Establish contractor performance standards covering safety, quality, cost, and delivery.
• Evaluate supplier technical capability and service performance.
• Negotiate maintenance contracts, service agreements, and technical support arrangements.
• Develop reliable strategic suppliers for critical equipment and services.

10. Digitalization & Continuous Improvement

• Drive implementation and effective use of CMMS/EAM systems.
• Improve maintenance planning, scheduling, work-order management, and asset history.
• Develop dashboards for equipment reliability and maintenance performance.
• Introduce condition monitoring, predictive analytics, automation, and other Industry 4.0 technologies where appropriate.
• Lead Lean, TPM, Kaizen, Six Sigma, and other continuous-improvement initiatives.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Industrial Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 6 -10 years of experience in industrial/manufacturing maintenance, with significant leadership experience.
• Strong experience managing maintenance teams in a manufacturing or high-volume production environment.
• Proven knowledge of mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, automation, PLC, hydraulic, pneumatic, and utility systems.
• Experience in preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance.
• Strong understanding of maintenance planning.
• Experience managing maintenance budgets, contractors, spare parts.
• Strong knowledge of TPM, Lean Manufacturing, structured problem-solving.
• Experience with statutory compliance and industrial safety requirements is preferred.