Sr. Maintenance Technician
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About the Role
Lead and coordinate maintenance technicians for electrical, mechanical, and automation systems in paint shop, ensuring safety, compliance, and continuous improvement.
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Responsibilities
- Lead, assign, and supervise electrical, mechanical, and automation technicians across shifts
- Ensure maintenance activities are executed safely, efficiently, and as per priority
- Coach and mentor technicians to improve technical capability and problem solving skills
- Manage shift handovers, workload balancing, and on call response
- Coordinate preventive, corrective, and predictive maintenance activities across all paint shop assets
- Act as first escalation point during major breakdowns and ensure fast recovery
- Ensure effective coordination between mechanical, electrical, and automation disciplines
- Support commissioning, upgrades, and modifications of paint shop equipment
- Provide hands on technical support for complex mechanical, electrical, and automation issues
- Guide root cause analysis (RCA) and ensure robust corrective and preventive actions
- Support troubleshooting of PLC controlled systems, robots, ovens, conveyors, utilities, and safety systems
- Verify system stability and process readiness before equipment handover to production
Requirements
- Strong working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and automation systems
- Understanding of paint shop equipment: conveyors, ovens, pumps, fans, booths, utilities, PLC based systems, industrial robots, safety circuits
- Ability to read and interpret mechanical drawings, electrical schematics, and control logic
- Familiarity with predictive maintenance tools and condition monitoring
- Proven ability to lead multi disciplinary maintenance teams
- Strong decision making skills during breakdown and production critical situations
- Structured problem solving and RCA capability
- Effective communication across technical and non technical teams
- High safety awareness and accountability mindset
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Role Overview
- Sr. Maintenance Technician in Paint Shop is responsible for leading and coordinating electrical, mechanical, and automation maintenance technicians.
- Ensures safe, reliable, and efficient operation of all paint shop equipment and systems.
- Provides technical leadership across pre treatment, E coat, primer, basecoat, clearcoat, ovens, conveyors, inspection systems, utilities, and ASRS.
- Acts as first technical escalation point between technicians, engineering, and operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, assign, and supervise electrical, mechanical, and automation technicians across shifts.
- Ensure maintenance activities are executed safely, efficiently, and as per priority.
- Coach and mentor technicians to improve technical capability and problem solving skills.
- Manage shift handovers, workload balancing, and on call response.
- Coordinate preventive, corrective, and predictive maintenance activities across all paint shop assets.
- Act as first escalation point during major breakdowns and ensure fast, structured recovery.
- Ensure effective coordination between mechanical, electrical, and automation disciplines.
- Support commissioning, upgrades, and modifications of paint shop equipment.
- Provide hands on technical support for complex mechanical, electrical, and automation issues.
- Guide root cause analysis (RCA) and ensure robust corrective and preventive actions.
- Support troubleshooting of PLC controlled systems, robots, ovens, conveyors, utilities, and safety systems.
- Verify system stability and process readiness before equipment handover to production.
Additional Responsibilities
- Enforce strict compliance with LOTO, PPE, electrical safety, machine safety, and hazardous area requirements.
- Ensure maintenance activities meet OEM standards, plant EHS rules, and regulatory obligations.
- Support audits related to ISO/QMS internal EHS, and customer requirements.
- Ensure preventive maintenance plans are executed with high compliance.
- Monitor breakdown trends, MTBF, MTTR, and downtime KPIs.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to improve reliability, availability, and maintainability.
- Maintain accurate maintenance records, shift reports, and escalation logs.
- Coordinate with Production, Process Engineering, Quality, and Facilities teams.
- Support production planning discussions and maintenance prioritization.
Skills
- Strong working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and automation systems.
- Understanding of paint shop: Conveyors, ovens, pumps, fans, booths, utilities, PLC based systems, industrial robots, safety circuits.
- Ability to read and interpret mechanical drawings, electrical schematics, and control logic.
- Familiarity with predictive maintenance tools and condition monitoring.
- Proven ability to lead multi disciplinary maintenance teams.
- Strong decision making skills during breakdown and production critical situations.
- Structured problem solving and RCA capability.
- Effective communication across technical and non technical teams.
- High safety awareness and accountability mindset.
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