Engineer - Maintenance

Job Description:

Job Purpose

The Maintenance & Electrical Engineer will work closely with production and maintenance teams to ensure smooth functioning of machines and equipment with minimal downtime. This role is responsible for attending breakdowns, diagnosing faults, carrying out repairs and preventive maintenance activities, while ensuring safety, operational efficiency, and adherence to quality standards. The position also involves inventory management of spare parts, root cause analysis, and effective utilization of maintenance systems to support continuous production operations.

Job Description/Responsibilities

• Attend breakdowns, identify fault and problem solve with minimal downtime.
• Carry out diagnosis of faults, and repairs to all types of control systems in a safe, timely and professional manner and return equipment to operational.
• Ability to oversee electrical drawing, control and vendor specific activity.
• Estimate length of time required to complete a job and likely consequences of failure to complete. Ensure all the production machines/equipment are in operational condition. irrespective of production plan. If required, work continue until machine up.
• Identify and escalate any activity that has the potential to cause harm or damage.
• Report breakdown root causes, equipment faults and concerns to management.
• Identify spares requirements and log usage. Ensure spare part availability and inventory management.
• Carry out PPM schedules as necessary and planned work orders as required.
• Assist with the moving, installation, repositioning of machines and equipment.
• Plan and prioritise workload to support production and ensure efficient use of working time.
• Make full use of the computerised maintenance management system (CMMS). Fill in job tickets/log completion of work.
• Work within 5S (Sort, Set In Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain) methodology to maintain workplace and hand tools to a high standard.
• Ensure a safe working environment exists for self and colleagues, ensuring all health, safety environmental and quality management procedures are followed and achieve the company’s and departmental Key Performance Indicators (KPI).
• Perform root cause analysis and solve problems, independently determined approach and assigned tasks.

Experience 

• 4 - 6  years

Education Qualification

• Diploma or BE from Electrical & Electronics / Mechanical /Mechatronic Engineering

Languages

• Tamil & English