Maintenance Manager

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This is a position with grade

13

This position reports to

Support Services Manager

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to leads the factory Maintenance team in the planning and implementation of initiatives that maintain and improve the reliability, effectiveness, and/or efficiency of equipment, technical infrastructure, production lines, and/or facilities. Each day, you will develop and implement equipment life cycle management procedures for optimizing costs and profitability. You will also showcase your knowledge by developing and proposing improvement projects for processes and production lines to reduce both ordinary and extraordinary maintenance. The work model for the role is: #LI - Onsite This role is contributing to the Process Automation & Motion for across Peenya factory. You will be mainly accountable for: • Proposing and managing the annual maintenance budget by monitoring costs and performance, identifying opportunities for optimization, and taking corrective actions to ensure resource efficiency and alignment with financial targets. • Defining and implementing maintenance policies, standard procedures, and equipment life cycle management strategies to improve reliability, efficiency, and performance of equipment, production lines, and plant infrastructure. • Collaborating with the Engineering team to plan maintenance requirements for new production lines and recommending actions that enhance equipment reliability, safety, and ongoing maintenance effectiveness. • Managing the delivery of maintenance services across the plant by identifying performance gaps, improving service quality, and ensuring timely and efficient maintenance operations in line with business requirements. • Providing technical leadership to the maintenance team while ensuring full compliance with ABB Group policies, local regulations, and safety standards across all maintenance and facility operations. • Managing vendors and contractors by ensuring service-level compliance, monitoring KPIs, guiding them on ABB’s safety and operational standards, and coordinating service execution and performance reviews. • Executing facility improvement and maintenance-related projects, including utilities and soft services, by coordinating end-to-end activities from planning to final handover, minimizing downtime, and ensuring operational continuity.

Qualifications for the role

• Education: BE/BTech in Engineering with a valid Supervisor License from the Electrical Inspectorate; Green Building Certification.
• Experience: 15–18 years in factory maintenance, covering utilities, machine maintenance, legal compliance, and project execution in manufacturing.
• Technical Skills: Extensive knowledge of HT/LT electrical systems, transformers, DG sets, UPS, compressors, chillers, HVAC systems, BMS, and reading electrical drawings.
• Compliance & Safety: Practical experience with CEIG, PCB, BESCOM, and Fire Department compliance, safety audits, fire systems, and knowledge of HIRA, FI/NBC/NFPA standards.
• Project & Vendor Handling: Skilled in BOQ review, project coordination, vendor management, invoice tracking, and ensuring timely execution with proper documentation.
• Facility & Sustainability: Experience in facility operations, waste disposal, manpower onboarding, and leading sustainability projects like Zero Waste to Landfill and AFR.
• Communication & Leadership: Effective communication and team management skills, with a focus on cost control, process improvement, and safe, efficient operations.

More about us

ABB Energy Industries is enabling safe, smart and sustainable projects and operations for businesses across the oil, gas, chemicals, life sciences, power generation and water sectors. Driving integrated solutions that automate, digitalize and electrify industry we connect our people and technology to help our customers adapt and succeed. With over 50 years domain expertise, we continue to innovate and reshape traditional approaches across the energy sector with our technologies designed to improve operational efficiency, reduce risk, reduce energy consumption and waste. We value people from different backgrounds. Apply today for your next career step within ABB and visit www.abb.com to learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe. #MyABBStory