Head of Maintenance

Job Description: Central Maintenance Head

Location: Chennai

Industry: Solar / Renewable Energy / Manufacturing

Role Objective

The Central Maintenance Head will be responsible for leading, planning, and implementing the overall maintenance strategy across the Chennai facility. The role will focus on ensuring high uptime and reliability of plant machinery, utilities, and equipment through predictive and preventive maintenance, energy cost optimization, compliance with statutory standards, and strong stakeholder management.

Key Responsibilities

1. Maintenance & Reliability

• Lead analysis of downtime and breakdowns to identify root causes and implement corrective actions, ensuring continuous improvement.
• Drive uptime improvement across all plant machinery, line equipment, and utilities in line with industry norms.
• Monitor and achieve maintenance KPIs including:
• MTTR (Mean Time to Repair)
• MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)
• Machine Availability %
• Implement predictive, preventive, and condition-based maintenance programs to enhance equipment reliability.

2. Planning & Audit

• Conduct periodic maintenance audits across plants to assess planning, scheduling, and compliance to maintenance protocols.
• Ensure adherence to group-level standards and best practices in plant engineering and central maintenance.
• Establish robust maintenance SOPs, manuals, and reliability standards for all critical equipment.

3. Cost & Energy Optimization

• Ensure energy cost optimization as per group benchmarks, focusing on reducing specific energy consumption per unit of output.
• Develop and implement cost control measures to reduce overall maintenance expenditure without compromising quality.
• Promote domestic spare part development to reduce import dependency and optimize cost, ensuring quality standards are maintained.

4. Statutory & Compliance

• Ensure strict adherence to all statutory, regulatory, and group requirements, including:
• ISO standards (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 50001)
• OHSAS / ISO 45001 for safety compliance
• State & Central government norms (Electrical Inspectorate, Pollution Control Board, Factory Act, etc.)
• Prepare and maintain compliance reports, certifications, and audit documentation.

5. Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Lead, mentor, and develop a skilled maintenance team to ensure competency in advanced maintenance practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Production, Quality, EHS, Projects, Procurement) for seamless operations.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders, OEMs, vendors, contractors, and government authorities .
• Drive a culture of safety, quality, and continuous improvement across maintenance teams.