DRI ASSISTANT INSTRUMENTATION HEAD
Job ID: 2025102302 | SMFAL | DRI | DRI 2
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Shri Mahavir Ferro Alloys Private Limited (SMFA) started its operations in 2003-04 with a 100 TPD sponge iron kiln at the Kalunga Industrial Estate in Odisha. The company further expanded the capacities of its sponge iron plant with the addition of a third 100 TPD Kiln along with two 12 Ton induction furnaces with a Continuous Casting Machine (for Billet casting) in the year 2008. Adding one more feather to its expansion program, SMFA commissioned a 12 MW coal-based Captive Power Plant in March 2008 to meet the power requirements of its three 100 TPD sponge iron plants and steel melting shop (SMS).
SMFA has its railway siding, which was approved by the South eastern Railways in the year 2007, and its design and engineering got approved in 2009. The company upgraded the railway siding to a private freight terminal to cater to plants’ requirements and get the benefit from railway policies along with the added business opportunities with the various manufacturing plants in the vicinity. In 2011-12, SMFA ventured into producing power using renewable sources by commissioning a 1 MW solar power plant under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission at Tankajoda village in Sundargarh district of Odisha.
Job Objective
Responsible for executing instrumentation maintenance of entire DRI plant and support operational & maintenance improvement initiatives
• Functional Reporting: DRI E&I. Head
• Administrative Reporting: DRI E&I. Head
Key Responsibility Areas
1. Plant uptime
- Ensure plant uptime to achieve production as per business plan
- Drive maintenance improvement projects to enhance equipment uptime and reliability
- Drive maintenance improvement projects to enhance equipment uptime and reliability
2. Maintenance practices
- Monitor adherence to - Cleaning, Lubrication, Tightening and Inspection (CLTI), Preventive Maintenance (PM), condition-based monitoring schedules
- Compliance to checking & filling of instrumentation maintenance check sheets
- Track effectiveness of maintenance practices
- Participation in Root Cause Analysis (RCA)/Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA) for major equipment breakdown / feed losses
- Prepare daily / weekly / monthly MIS reports of the department
- Compliance to checking & filling of instrumentation maintenance check sheets
- Track effectiveness of maintenance practices
- Participation in Root Cause Analysis (RCA)/Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA) for major equipment breakdown / feed losses
- Prepare daily / weekly / monthly MIS reports of the department
3. Automation
- Identify opportunities along with operations team to automate processes and reduce cost or improve productivity, availability, safety or quality
- Implement the identified automation opportunities
- Implement the identified automation opportunities
4. Spares
- Responsible to maintain Min-Max levels for all V/E spares
- Responsible for health & availability of Insurance spares
- Ensure spares refurbishment criteria & plan for refurbishment to reduce costs
- Ensure ERP driven requisition, issue, indenting of spares
- Responsible for health & availability of Insurance spares
- Ensure spares refurbishment criteria & plan for refurbishment to reduce costs
- Ensure ERP driven requisition, issue, indenting of spares
5. Shutdown maintenance
- Planning of shutdown maintenance and monitor effectiveness
- Optimise shutdown maintenance duration and cost
- Optimise shutdown maintenance duration and cost
6. Manpower
- Defines the objectives of instrumentation team and carries out their performance reviews, promotes the quality of the work and motivates his/her personnel
- Ensure technical training hours for the instrumentation team is identified and provided in coordination with the HR team.
- Ensure no delays in breakdown maintenance due to manpower shortage
- Ensure technical training hours for the instrumentation team is identified and provided in coordination with the HR team.
- Ensure no delays in breakdown maintenance due to manpower shortage
7. Safety & compliance
- Ensure zero safety incidents & lost time injury in DRI plant
- Ensure compliance to IMS standards
- Ensure compliance to IMS standards
Key Performance Indicators
1. Plant Availability
- Overall plant availability in a month
- 100% DCS availability
- Daily proper manpower planning to ensure plant availability as per target
- 100% DCS availability
- Daily proper manpower planning to ensure plant availability as per target
2. Maintenance
- PM schedule adherence
- Completion of shutdown jobs within specified timelines
- Completion of shutdown jobs within specified timelines
3. MTBF and MTTR
- Maintenance effectiveness:-Increasing trend of MTBF for critical assets-Decreasing trend of MTTR – reason wise for critical assets
4. Automation
- Identify automation opportunities in the plant
- Automate the processes to improve productivity, equipment availability, safety & quality
- Automate the processes to improve productivity, equipment availability, safety & quality
5. Spares
- spares availability within min-max levels
- upkeep of insurance spares
- upkeep of insurance spares
6. EHS Compliance
- Zero lost time injuries / accidents
- Compliance to EHS and other legal standards
- Train / coach team members on EHS
- Compliance to EHS and other legal standards
- Train / coach team members on EHS
7. IMS Compliance
- 100% adherence to IMS standards
- Implement best practices
- Train / coach team members on IMS / SOPs
- Implement best practices
- Train / coach team members on IMS / SOPs
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Work experience as instrumentation/ automation engineer in steel processing unit
- B.E/ Diploma – Instrumentation
- B.E/ Diploma – Instrumentation
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
- Min. 5 years of relevant experience required
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Plant,Kalunga |
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7-10 year(s) |
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• Excellent coordination skills • Communication and problem-solving skills • Understanding of maintenance of PLCs, instruments, pneumatic drives etc |
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