SENIOR EXECUTIVE - PLANT ENGINEERING

External Job Description

Position:  Senior Executive- Engineering (Engineer) 
Department: Plant Engineering 
Reporting to: Manager /Asst. Manager – Plant Engineering  
Reportees: Technicians

General Objective

Ensuring the smooth functioning of machines and other equipment in all user departments through preventive maintenance measures, taking quick and efficient corrective action in case of machine breakdowns, allotting work to operators depending on shift requirements, ensuring proper adherence to Annual Maintenance contracts.

Job Descriptions
Daily Activities:

•    Prioritizing jobs to be done in the General shift and allotting work to operators in the Plant engineering department.

•    Guiding / supporting technicians on day-to-day technical issues.

•    Arranging for the spares required during the shift to attend to breakdown problems and maintaining the spares inventory.

•    Meeting personnel of user departments to discuss and prepare appropriate action plans for problems of a repetitive nature and for jobs that require general shift manpower support.

•    Conducting inspection of engineering stores inward material.
•    Acknowledging breakdown intimations over phone from other departments and initiating work allotment through shift engineers or contract workmen. Responsible for conduct of LOTO procedure
•    Contacting and coordinating with Service contract persons coming under the “Annual Maintenance Contract” for certain machinery / equipment.
•    Floating inquiries, gathering quotations, and initiating PO 

Brief description of knowledge and skills required

•    Hands on experience of various type of monitoring & measuring instrumentation. (Level, Flow, Temperature, Pressure, Weighing system)
•    Hands on experience of ABB 800xA DCS Platform & PLC (AB, Siemens) system. Logic development, Software trouble shooting, Graphic development, Alarm, event, trend & Report configuration. Logic development in FBD, ST, SFC, Ladder logic. Supporting new automation initiatives at Plant (e.g., local communication, Enterprise Asset Management, Efficiency improvement tools etc)
•    Basic understanding of communication topology or network. Checking the health of the communication topology (Profibus DP & ProfNet) and taking necessary actions.
•    Well experienced in maintenance, troubleshooting & calibration of field instruments.
•    Maintenance schedule preparation for all critical process control & monitoring system (DCS, PLC & Field Instrument) and ensure the proper and timely maintenance activities as per standard guidelines. 
•    Spares Management: -Maintaining adequate inventory of spares and consumables towards Instrumentation asset. 
•    Hands on experience in Honeywell Fire alarm system
•    Ensuring proper budgeting. Actual vs budget 
•    People Management: -Direct & guide team members; counsel workmen & address grievances.
•    Review performance to build a motivated team & a performance-oriented work culture.
•    Vendor Management: -Co-ordination with various instrumentation Vendors for procuring material, services & alternate solution with reasonable cost.