Maintenance Executive
About the Role
The Maintenance Executive is responsible for ensuring the smooth functioning of all plant machinery, utilities, and equipment through preventive, predictive, and breakdown maintenance. The role focuses on minimizing machine downtime, improving equipment reliability, ensuring safety compliance, and maintaining proper maintenance records.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Preventive Maintenance
▪ Execute preventive maintenance schedules for all production machinery and utilities.
▪ Ensure timely servicing, lubrication, calibration, and inspection of equipment.
▪ Maintain preventive maintenance checklists and records.
▪ Coordinate with production to plan maintenance activities without affecting production targets.
2. Breakdown Maintenance
▪ Attend machine breakdowns immediately and restore operations with minimum downtime.
▪ Diagnose electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, and hydraulic faults.
▪ Identify root causes of recurring breakdowns and implement corrective actions.
▪ Monitor Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) and Mean Time to Repair (MTTR).
3. Utilities Management
o Monitor and maintain:
▪ Air Compressors
▪ Boilers (if applicable)
▪ Chillers
▪ Cooling Towers
▪ DG Sets
▪ Electrical Panels
▪ Water Pumps
▪ HVAC Systems
▪ Ensure uninterrupted utility supply to production.
4. Spare Parts Management
▪ Maintain critical spare inventory.
▪ Raise purchase requisitions for required spare parts.
▪ Verify received materials and maintain stock records.
▪ Control maintenance costs through proper inventory planning.
5. Installation & Improvement
▪ Assist in installation and commissioning of new machinery.
▪ Participate in machine shifting, modifications, and upgrades.
▪ Suggest automation and process improvement initiatives.
▪ Implement cost-saving and energy-saving projects.
6. Safety & Compliance
▪ Ensure safe maintenance practices and use of PPE.
▪ Follow Lock-Out/Tag-Out (LOTO) procedures during maintenance work.
▪ Ensure compliance with Factory Safety Standards, Electrical Safety, GMP, and statutory requirements.
▪ Participate in safety audits and corrective action implementation.
7. Documentation
o Maintain:
▪ Preventive Maintenance Records
▪ Breakdown Reports
▪ Machine History Cards
▪ Utility Log Books
▪ Spare Parts Inventory
▪ Calibration Records
▪ AMC Records
• Update maintenance reports on ERP/Excel/CMMS.
8. Team Coordination
• Coordinate with Production, Quality, Stores, and Purchase departments.
• Guide technicians and maintenance helpers during repair work.
• Allocate daily maintenance activities and monitor completion.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Diploma / B.E. / B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering.
- ITI with relevant experience may also be considered.
- 3–7 years of maintenance experience in a manufacturing industry.
- Experience in food processing, herbal extraction, pharmaceuticals, FMCG, or chemical manufacturing will be preferred.
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