National Fleet Maintenance & Reliability Manager

Health Safety & Environment:

• To achieve “zero accidents” through leadership, active participation, and follow up of plant & fleet operation and maintenance.

• Guide to operation and maintenance team for the implementation of GTs and GEs under CMRT responsibility for fleet operation and maintenance.

• Promotes safe behaviours. Sets up and reinforces the quality systems.

• Process Owner for the GP-09 (Maintenance) under his purview.

• Support in investigation of RCA for required incidents/accidents & closer identified actions in time pertaining to Fleet Maintenance.

Functional Strategy & Operational Excellence

• Leads in fostering a culture of continuous improvement and technical rigor to achieve the reliability standards in bulk fleets across all India sites.

• Follow-up on KPIs and objectives, conducting performance evaluations to ensure technical support meets the requirements.

• Systematically reviews fleet performance with the team to identify technical gaps, implementing benchmarking with Air Liquide standards.

• Maps technical competency requirements for the team; oversees the qualification process and designs strategic training plans to bridge skill gaps in maintenance and reliability.

• Facilitates "Experience Sharing" to ensure lessons learned at one site are shared and prevented at all other sites.

• Acts as the technical authority in the selection and hiring of maintenance specialists to ensure the CMRT maintains a high level of subject-matter expertise.

• Serves as the primary advocate for reliability, using internal communication to drive enthusiasm for "zero-breakdown" mindsets and celebrate technical successes

Maintenance Governance & Asset Integrity

• Define and implement the national reliability strategy and maintenance roadmaps for Bulk fleets.

• Monitor and analyze Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to improve overall fleet’s availability.

• Establish and enforce uniform maintenance standards, procedures, and "Best Practices" across all locations.

• Lead and mentor for the team to provide high-level troubleshooting and technical support.

• Key assessor in investigations into major fleet Breakdown or recurring issues to ensure long-term corrective actions are implemented fleet-wide.

• Ensure maintenance synergy and technical reliability for the Bulk transportation fleets and develop the new vendors

• Sets the strategy, gives directions and targets, provides support in order to help the facilities to optimize maintenance.

• Optimize the maintenance OPEX/CAPEX spend by focusing on asset lifecycle management and reducing unplanned downtime.

• To utilize “best practices” for the fleet maintenance and Reliability from the Group and promote them.

Operational Standards & Systems Control

• Ensure that VITT Maintenance process is effectively implemented in line with GP-09, including:

  • Process Owner for the implementation of GP-09 for VITT maintenance.

  • Establish a maintenance strategy, covering notably the maintenance approach, organization and spare parts management,

  • Plan and execute maintenance tasks,

  • Manage critical spare parts,

  • Implement a process to allow the industrial operations to keep assets in a safe and environmentally compliant condition, aligned with business expectations.

  • monitoring and evaluating the process effectiveness, in order to determine and implement improvement actions if necessary,

  • ensuring data and information related to the process performance are collected, analyzed and evaluated, and reviewed during management review meetings.

• Effective utilization of MAXIMO tool for fleet maintenance and history.

• Support in Maintaining spares for the Fleet Maintenance.

• Closely work with procurement for vendor / contractor finalization for vehicles maintenance.

• Attend crisis and emergency situations such as (Roll-over, liquid spillage, Fatality).

Integrated MIS & Operational Reporting

• Serves as the primary point of contact for industrial performance data for the Bulk fleets, ensuring seamless reporting and alignment between Air Liquide India operations and the AMEI Cluster.

• The accuracy and consistency of all KPIs, providing the leadership team with reliable data for performance evaluation.

• Oversees the tracking and validation of Quality Indicators, ensuring that reporting is timely and compliant with AL standards.

• Manages the Management Information System (MIS) for the CMRT, translating complex maintenance data into actionable insights for Cluster and Group experts.

• Reviews and optimizes reporting frameworks to better capture the impact of reliability initiatives on Fleet’s availability and maintenance costs.