Manager-Mechanical
About the Role
To lead the operation, maintenance, reliability, and performance improvement of the Coal Handling System (CHP) and associated mechanical equipment, ensuring uninterrupted coal supply to generating units. The role is responsible for maximizing equipment availability, minimizing breakdowns, improving system reliability, ensuring safety compliance, and supporting continuous plant generation requirements.
Key Skills for This Role
Full Job Posting
Responsibilities
- Lead preventive, predictive, breakdown, and shutdown maintenance activities of Coal Handling Plant (CHP) equipment.
- Ensure uninterrupted coal unloading, conveying, crushing, stacking, reclaiming, and bunker feeding operations to support generation requirements.
- Maintain and improve reliability of conveyors, crushers, screens, stacker reclaimers, paddle feeders, plough feeders, trippers, vibrating feeders, and associated equipment.
- Monitor CHP equipment health and implement reliability improvement initiatives to reduce forced outages and recurring failures.
- Plan and execute annual shutdowns, overhauls, major maintenance activities, and capital repair jobs.
- Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for equipment failures and implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Drive condition monitoring programs including vibration analysis, thermography, lubrication management, and predictive maintenance practices.
- Coordinate with Operations, Electrical, C&I, Boiler, and Fuel Management teams to ensure seamless coal handling operations.
- Monitor coal feeding systems, bunkering operations, and conveyor availability to meet generation targets.
- Optimize maintenance costs, spare consumption, inventory levels, and contractor productivity.
- Ensure effective management of critical spares, conveyor belts, gearboxes, pulleys, idlers, motors, couplings, and crusher components.
- Supervise contractors, service providers, and maintenance teams to ensure safe and quality execution of maintenance activities.
- Ensure strict compliance with safety standards, fire protection requirements, dust suppression systems, PTW procedures, and statutory regulations.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on equipment availability, MTBF improvement, and reduction in coal handling losses.
- Develop and mentor maintenance teams through technical training, performance management, and succession planning.
Qualifications
- Educational Qualification
- Mandatory
- B.E. / B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering
- Preferred
- M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering
- MBA (Operations) will be an added advantage
- Experience Requirements (Must Have)
- Mandatory Experience
- 12-18 years of experience in Mechanical Maintenance.
- Minimum 7 years of hands-on experience in Coal Handling Plant (CHP) Maintenance.
- Experience in Thermal Power Plants or Large Captive Power Plants.
- Experience in maintenance of coal conveying and material handling systems.
- Exposure to utility-scale power plants of 300 MW and above.
- Experience handling shutdowns, overhauls, and reliability improvement programs.
- Experience managing maintenance teams, contractors, and OEMs.
- Working knowledge of SAP PM or equivalent CMMS systems.
- Non-Negotiable Requirements
- B.E./B.Tech Mechanical Engineering.
- 12-18 years of relevant experience.
- Mandatory Coal Handling Plant (CHP) maintenance experience.
- Minimum 7 years of CHP exposure in Thermal Power Plants.
- Experience on utility-scale generating units of 300 MW+.
- Experience in Conveyor Systems, Crushers, and Stacker Reclaimers.
- Strong contractor management and team leadership experience.
- Exposure to SAP PM or equivalent maintenance platform.
- Strong safety and compliance orientation.
- Requirements (Must Have)
Preferred Qualifications
- Preferred
- MBA (Operations) will be an added advantage
About Adani Group
Adani Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate founded in 1988 by Gautam Adani, headquartered in Ahmedabad. It operates across energy, ports, logistics, mining, airports, cement, real estate, defense, and media, employing over 15,000 people.
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