Electrical Maintenance Lead (O&M)

Responsibilities

• Ensure reliable, safe and efficient operation of all generating units, auxiliaries, and balance of plant systems. 
• Ensures full compliance with Statutory HSS, environmental and technical requirements from central and state governmental bodies (i.e. CEA, CERC, DSA, SCEI, AP/CPCB etc. compliances).  
• Contribute to developing safe systems of work (SSOW) procedures, including HIRA, PTW, LOTO, JSA etc. for your area. 
• To provide oversight of all electrical maintenance activities, management of the maintenance teams, financial control, contract management, environmental compliance, regulatory compliance, technical compliance, risk evaluations and relationship management.
• Prepare maintenance strategy to achieve higher reliability (maximized MTTF) and greater efficiency (minimized MTTR) and implement the maintenance plans at plant level accordingly. 
• Lead equipment failure investigations and analysis, establish RCA framework and implement performance monitoring, corrective actions and continuous improvement methodology, for your area.    
• Maintain plant machinery to ensure it’s at acceptable standards, aiming at zero breakdown.
• Preparation of service contract and contract management for electrical maintenance works outsourced to external service providers. 
• Preparation and implementation of complete plant maintenance reports and checklists, including daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports and checklists. 
• Prepare and manage plant maintenance budget, work to optimize the costs and maximize production. This includes developing and tracking the monthly, quarterly, and annual maintenance budgets. 
• Define and monitor maintenance plans to achieve yearly Generation targets (including minimization of APC consumption) and yearly agreed Plant/Machines Availability targets.
• Delegates and assigns work tasks to electrical maintenance team to maintain optimum plant performance. 
• Support O&M head in plant improvement projects, modernization initiatives, digital transformation, and automation upgrades.
• Maintains plant critical spares inventory of your area, to meet the exigencies. 
• Lead, train and develop electrical maintenance team at Plant and prepare a detailed training calendar for electrical maintenance team accordingly. 
• Develop and execute risk management strategies to mitigate maintenance related risks and ensure compliance with internal audits.
• Prepares and maintains plant electrical maintenance records and presents the same to management on need basis.
• Inspects and monitors production equipment to ensure operational healthiness, maintain a cost-effective production process, by utilizing optimum resources to achieve generation targets. 
• IMS implementation, documentation preparation and updating, pertaining to your area.
• Ensures Cybersecurity requirements and compliance for Plant process control system

Qualifications

• B.E/B.Tech in Electrical Engineering
• 15+ years of experience in electrical maintenance within hydro power generation sector.
• Strong knowledge of Statutory and regulatory requirements pertaining to Hydro/PSP Plants. 
• Must have electrical maintenance experience of large-scale hydropower/ pump storage power plants.
• Managed Team of Engineers and technicians, working as section head for hydro / PSP plant equipment maintenance works for at least 10 years. 
• Experience with CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management Systems) for Plant maintenance works.
• Knowledge of analytics tools for performance optimization and risk assessment
• Advanced certifications in maintenance management or other power generation technologies or energy manager and auditor certification are preferred.