Job Description

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for leading the maintenance function to ensure high equipment reliability, availability, safety, and lifecycle performance across production machinery. The role leads preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance, drives TPM and continuous improvement, manages maintenance resources and spares, and partners with Production, Engineering, Quality, EHS, and other stakeholders to minimize downtime and support stable manufacturing operations at HARTING Manufacturing India Pvt Ltd, Chennai.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance strategies to maximize equipment uptime and improve overall equipment effectiveness.
• Own maintenance planning, shutdown schedules, checklists, standard operating procedures, and compliance documentation.
• Drive Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), autonomous maintenance, reliability improvement, and continuous improvement initiatives across manufacturing.
• Analyze recurring breakdowns using structured root cause analysis and ensure sustainable corrective and preventive actions.
• Monitor and improve maintenance KPIs including MTBF, MTTR, equipment availability, breakdown trends, maintenance cost, and schedule compliance.
• Lead, coach, and develop maintenance engineers and technicians; define skill requirements, training plans, work allocation, and performance expectations.
• Establish critical-spares strategy, optimize spare parts inventory, and coordinate with Procurement and suppliers to ensure availability while controlling cost.
• Provide maintenance input for new equipment selection, installation, commissioning, acceptance, validation, and handover to operations.
• Collaborate closely with Production, Industrial Engineering, Quality, EHS, and other functions to resolve equipment issues and support production priorities.
• Ensure adherence to applicable safety, environmental, statutory, and company requirements, including safe work practices and contractor controls.
• Drive automation, energy efficiency, utility optimization, maintenance digitalization, and cost-reduction projects with measurable business impact.
• Manage maintenance budgets, service contracts, external vendors, and equipment lifecycle plans, ensuring effective utilization of resources.
• Support audits and management reviews with accurate maintenance records, risk assessments, action tracking, and continuous improvement plans.

Qualifications:

• • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related engineering discipline; a postgraduate qualification in management or engineering is advantageous.
  • Typically 12-15 years of relevant maintenance experience in a manufacturing or engineering environment, including demonstrated responsibility for leading maintenance teams and functions.
  • Strong experience in production equipment maintenance, troubleshooting, reliability engineering, preventive/predictive maintenance, and process optimization.
  • Proven people leadership capability with the ability to coach technical teams, set priorities, and build a proactive safety and reliability culture.
  • Familiarity with ERP/CMMS-based maintenance and spare-parts management; SAP experience is advantageous.

Professional Competencies:

• Analytical skills
• Business and financial acumen
• Communication
• Cultural Fit
• Experience
• Leadership
• Professional suitability
• Logistics Expertise
• Strategic thinking
• Technical
• Encourage and empower

Culture Competencies:

• Become better everyday
• Break new ground
• Champion customers satisfaction
• Demonstrate ownership
• Trust and collaborate