Officer

o ensure reliable operation, preventive maintenance, and breakdown maintenance of mechanical equipment and utility systems at the API manufacturing plant, ensuring equipment availability, safety, GMP compliance, and uninterrupted production.
2. Key Responsibilities
A. Preventive & Breakdown Maintenance
- Execute preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance of mechanical equipment.
- Attend equipment breakdowns and ensure minimum production downtime.
- Maintain maintenance schedules, equipment history cards, and breakdown reports.
- Identify recurring failures and implement corrective and preventive actions.
B. Equipment Maintenance – API Plant
- Maintain reactors, agitators, centrifuges, dryers, filters, pumps, compressors, vacuum pumps, and heat exchangers.
- Handle maintenance of gearboxes, mechanical seals, bearings, valves, pipelines, and motors in coordination with the electrical team.
- Support installation, alignment, commissioning, and performance monitoring of mechanical equipment.
- Ensure equipment reliability in hazardous and solvent-handling areas.
C. Utility Maintenance
- Support maintenance of cooling towers, chilled water systems, thermic fluid systems, and other mechanical utility equipment.
- Coordinate maintenance of boilers, compressed air systems, vacuum systems, and HVAC equipment, as applicable.
- Monitor utility equipment performance and report abnormalities.
D. GMP & Documentation
- Follow cGMP, safety, and site maintenance procedures.
- Maintain preventive maintenance records, breakdown reports, work orders, and equipment logbooks.
- Support equipment qualification, calibration coordination, and validation activities wherever required.
- Ensure proper closure of maintenance activities and compliance with audit observations.
E. Safety & Compliance
- Follow permit-to-work, lockout/tagout (LOTO), confined-space, and hot-work procedures.
- Ensure appropriate PPE and safe working practices during maintenance.
- Coordinate with EHS and Production before executing maintenance in operating areas.
- Ensure proper housekeeping and safe restoration of equipment after maintenance.
F. Spare Parts & Contractor Management
- Monitor critical mechanical spares and maintain minimum stock levels.
- Coordinate with stores, purchase, and external service providers for timely maintenance support.
- Ensure contractor compliance with plant safety and quality requirements.
3. Educational Qualification
- Diploma or B.E./B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering.
- Additional technical certification in maintenance or industrial safety is desirable.
4. Experience
- Preferred experience: 2–5 years in mechanical maintenance in API, pharmaceutical, chemical, or process manufacturing industries.
- Experience in rotating equipment, pumps, reactors, centrifuges, dryers, and industrial utilities is preferred.
- Knowledge of cGMP documentation and preventive maintenance practices is desirable.