Job Description
Lead equipment reliability and availability to maximise production uptime, quality, and safety. Drive failure elimination through structured problem-solving and continuous improvement while developing maintenance team capability and stakeholder collaboration.
Responsibilities
Roles & Responsibility
- Lead end-to-end equipment availability and production support across all manufacturing shops.
- Eliminate repeat failures and stabilise chronic problem areas impacting output.
- Establish robust systems for incident logging, root cause analysis, and permanent countermeasure implementation.
- Ensure production lines consistently achieve output, quality, and safety targets with minimum unplanned downtime.
- Improve MTBF, reduce MTTR, and sustain zero-accident operations.
- Drive effective stakeholder management across Production, ME, Quality, IT/OT, and OEM partners.
- Develop technical capability, competency evaluation, and performance management of maintenance teams.
- Define and execute the annual equipment availability improvement plan
Qualifications
Familiar with
- Shop Floor Maintenance Strategy Development
- General & Breakdown Maintenance Management
Cross‑Functional Collaboration
- People & Capability Management
- Safety & Compliance
- Cost & Resource Optimisation
- Self-Management & Leadership Behaviour
Skills & Attributes
- Strong leadership and team management capability.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Deep technical expertise in mechanical, electrical, PLC, robotics, and automation systems.
- High proficiency in structured problem-solving and data-driven decision-making.
- Strong understanding of TPM, lean manufacturing, and maintenance excellence frameworks.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical/electrical/Electronics/Mechatronics Engineering (mandatory).
- 15+ years of experience in Maintenance, including at least 3–5 years in leadership roles.
- Strong experience across Weld Shop, Paint Shop, Assembly, Powertrain (minimum 2 essential).
- Exposure in robots (KUKA, Yaskawa, Fanuc), PLCs (Allen Bradley, Mitsubishi, Siemens), Controls, Instrumentation, Machine tools
- Knowledge of FMEA, Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, Six Sigma.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, SAP /CMMS tools, and preferred digital platforms.
Job Details
| Role Level: | Executive-Level | Work Type: | Full-Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Country: | India | City: | Sriperumbudur ,Tamil Nadu |
| Company Website: | https://www.daimlertruck.com/en/privacy/social-media | Job Function: | Operations Management |
| Company Industry/ Sector: |
Motor Vehicle Manufacturing | ||
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