Instrumentation Manager

We are looking for an experienced Manager Instrumentation to lead instrumentation and automation activities at our carbon black manufacturing plant. The incumbent will be responsible for maximizing equipment availability, ensuring safe and reliable plant operations, managing preventive and predictive maintenance, driving automation improvements, and developing a high-performing instrumentation team.

Role & responsibilities

• Lead maintenance, troubleshooting, calibration, and reliability improvement of plant instrumentation and automation systems.
• Ensure high availability of DCS, PLC, SCADA, analyzers, field instruments, control valves, weigh feeders, interlocks, and safety instrumented systems.
• Plan and execute preventive, predictive, and shutdown maintenance within approved schedules and budgets.
• Analyze recurring failures, conduct root cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Maintain instrumentation standards, calibration records, loop drawings, logic diagrams, cause-and-effect charts, and equipment history.
• Drive modernization, obsolescence management, energy-efficiency, and automation projects from concept through commissioning.
• Coordinate with Production, Electrical, Mechanical, Projects, Process, IT/OT, and EHS teams for safe and timely execution.
• Ensure compliance with statutory requirements, plant safety procedures, permit-to-work systems, management of change, and audit requirements.
• Manage spares, service contracts, vendors, contractors, annual budgets, and cost-optimization initiatives.
• Monitor departmental KPIs, prepare reports, and build team capability through coaching and technical training.
• Support plant start-ups, shutdowns, emergency breakdowns, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Preferred candidate profile

• B.E./B.Tech in Instrumentation & Control, Electronics & Instrumentation, or a related engineering discipline.
• 1825 years of relevant experience in instrumentation maintenance and automation, including 3–5 years in a team leadership role.
• Experience in a carbon black, chemical, petrochemical, refinery, power, cement, tyre, or other continuous-process plant is preferred.