Supervisor Utilities & Cranes Maintenance

Role Summary:

Supervisor, Utilities & Cranes Maintenance is accountable for leadership of utilities operation and maintenance, crane maintenance and instrumentation maintenance to ensure safe, compliant, and reliable supply of critical services to manufacturing operations. The role allocates manpower and equipment, enforces statutory and safety standards, monitors operational parameters, and directs first line troubleshooting and coordinated maintenance activities. This position tracks performance indicators, maintains audit ready documentation, balances capacity with production demands, and drives energy optimization and continuous improvement to protect asset integrity and operational continuity.

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. ·         Leads end-to-end utilities, crane & instrumentation operations and maintenance, ensuring safe and reliable performance of air compressors, cooling towers, pumps, water treatment systems, main gas station, main power substation, main water supply station and industrial wastewater, overhead crane, jib crane, maintenance hoist, mobile equipment, furnaces, online measuring equipment …. etc. to support and maintain plant manufacturing continuity. ·         Ensures strict compliance with health, safety, environmental, OSHA, and statutory regulations by enforcing permit-to-work systems, lockout-tagout procedures, isolation controls, and safe operating standards across utilities and crane activities. ·         Allocates utilities, crane, instrumentation operators and maintenance, field attendants, and contractors to operational priorities and maintenance windows based on production demands, competence, availability, and risk assessments. ·         Supervises safe execution of work by verifying isolations, energy-release controls, barricading, certifications, and adherence to approved procedures before and during task execution. ·         Monitors equipment’s parameters including pressure, temperature, flow, fuel consumption, compressed air load, and water quality, proactively adjusting operations to prevent trips, protect assets, and sustain production requirements. ·         Balances utilities capacity availability against production plans by coordinating minor outages, preventive maintenance, and load adjustments to avoid high-impact breakdowns and delivery disruptions. ·         Leads first-line troubleshooting of utilities, crane and instrumentation abnormalities, guiding structured diagnostics, stabilizing systems quickly, and escalating complex failures to maintenance specialists or engineering teams as required. ·         Ensures utility operators and crane, instrumentation maintenance team are trained and compliant with safety standards. ·         Coordinates preventive and corrective maintenance for utilities, crane and instrumentation systems, ensuring work orders are properly created, executed, documented, and closed within the SAP for audit readiness and reliability tracking. ·         Tracks shift-level performance indicators include availability, forced trips, energy intensity, water consumption and operational cost, initiating corrective efficiency and reliability improvement actions. ·         Conducts routine safety inspections, toolbox talks, and utilities-area audits to identify hazards, implement corrective actions, and reinforce a culture of safety, teamwork, and continuous improvement. ·         Maintains accurate operational and maintenance logs, inspection records, compliance documentation, and maintenance reports to ensure traceability, regulatory adherence, and performance transparency. ·         Collaborates with Production, Engineering, Quality, and Maintenance teams to align utilities supply and maintenance activities with manufacturing schedules and plant priorities. ·         Provides hands-on technical guidance for utilities, crane & instrumentation systems including combustion tuning, compressor control optimization, cooling tower treatment balancing, pump alignment, and crane performance troubleshooting etc. ·         Drives continuous improvement and energy optimization initiatives within utilities operations by identifying consumption trends, piloting efficiency improvements, and standardizing best practices to reduce cost and environmental impact. Trains and guides junior utilities operators and contract personnel on operating practices, safety requirements, emergency response procedures, documentation standards, and disciplined parameter control to build a reliable utilities operations team.

Qualification and Education:

• · Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Instrumentation or Industrial Engineering with focus on utilities or process plants or any related field.

  Or Diploma in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, or Instrumentation Engineering relevant to utilities, crane and instrumentation and process operations

Experience:

• ·         With Bachelor’s degree: Minimum 5 years of experience in utilities, cranes and instrumentation maintenance within industrial or manufacturing environments, including systems such as compressed air, cooling water, water treatment, main gas systems, cranes, mobile equipment, and industrial furnaces.

  With Technical Diploma: Minimum 8 years of experience in utilities, cranes, and instrumentation maintenance within industrial or manufacturing environments, including systems such as compressed air, cooling water, water treatment, main gas systems, cranes, mobile equipment, and industrial furnaces
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