Team Member - Engineering (Mechanical)

Job Summary
This role is for a Senior Electrical & Mechanical Maintenance Engineer responsible for ensuring the safe, efficient, and compliant operation of electrical and mechanical systems across the plant. The position involves executing preventive, predictive, and shutdown maintenance activities, troubleshooting breakdowns, and supporting automation systems to minimize downtime. The engineer will coordinate with vendors, manage spares inventory, and lead qualification and validation efforts for equipment and control systems.
Roles & Responsibilities
• You will be responsible for recognizing potential hazards during critical maintenance activities and coordinating safety requirements through work permits, LOTO procedures, and JSA reviews to ensure full compliance with SH&E norms.
• You will be responsible for planning and monitoring predictive, preventive, and shutdown maintenance activities, maintaining good housekeeping in utility areas, and ensuring availability of critical spares while minimizing consumption.
• You will be responsible for troubleshooting and performing breakdown maintenance of electrical and mechanical equipment, including transformers, generators, sub-stations, and control systems, with quick turnaround and minimal downtime.
• You will be responsible for implementing and maintaining automation systems such as HMI and PLC, performing frequent backups, and identifying new areas for automation to improve system reliability.
• You will be responsible for executing equipment qualification and validation activities, preparing documentation as per ISO, cGMP, and statutory requirements, and updating master maintenance schedules in SAP.
• You will be responsible for performing CAPA using RCA, Why-Why analysis, and incident investigation techniques for critical breakdowns and equipment failures, while ensuring MTTR and MTBF benchmarks are met.
• You will be responsible for training and assessing team members on basic maintenance procedures, tool usage, and installation practices to build technical competency and ensure safe execution.
• You will be responsible for supporting small project modifications, coordinating with plant leads, initiating purchase requisitions, inspecting received spares, and contributing to cost estimation and budget forecasting for departmental activities.

Educational qualification-Diploma / Graduation in Mechanical Engineering or related field is mandatory
Minimum work Experience-3+ / 6+ years of experience
Skills & attributes – 
Functional Skills-
• Calibration
• Design Modification
• Machinery Repair And Maintenance
• Preventive Maintenance
• Programmable Logic Controllers
• Spare Parts Management
• Technical Documentation Resident Skills
• Compliance Management
• Equipment Operation
• Lean Methodologies
• Root Cause Analysis
• Workplace safety
Behavioural Skills
• Safety-First Mind-set Consistently prioritizes personnel and equipment safety through rigorous adherence to SH&E norms, LOTO protocols, and hazard assessments.
• Operational Discipline Demonstrates strong ownership in executing maintenance schedules, validating equipment, and maintaining compliance with ISO and cGMP standards.
• Continuous Improvement Orientation Proactively identifies inefficiencies, leads CAPA investigations, and contributes to lean initiatives like 5S and Kaizen to enhance reliability and reduce downtime.
Critical exposures
• Exposure to maintaining and troubleshooting equipment such as mixers, dryers, reactors, and HVAC systems, including addressing equipment failures, is preferred. Experience in Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Medical Devices, Life Sciences, FMCG industries is preferred
• Experience in equipment qualification, validation activities, and conducting Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for system failures is desired.
• Exposure to HVAC, compressed air, water systems, and utility optimization in pharmaceutical manufacturing environments is preferred.
• Experience with preventive maintenance activities, including documenting corrective actions, is desired.
• Exposure to mechanical system servicing, including alignment, lubrication, and calibration of pumps, motors, and valves to ensure optimal performance.

Benefits Offered
At Dr. Reddy’s we actively help to catalyse your career growth and professional development through personalised learning programs.
The benefits you will enjoy at Dr. Reddy’s are on par with the best industry standards. They include, among other things and other essential equipment, joining & relocation support, family support (Maternity & Paternity benefits), learning and development opportunities, medical coverage for yourself and your family, life coverage for yourself.

Our Work Culture
Ask any employee at Dr. Reddy’s why they come to work every day and they’ll say, because Good Health Can’t Wait. This is our credo as well as the guiding principle behind all our actions. We see healthcare solutions not only as scientific formulations, but as a means to help patients lead healthier lives, and we’re always attuned to the new and the next to empower people to stay fit. And to do this, we foster a culture of empathy and dynamism. People are at the core of our journey over the last few decades. They have been supported by an enabling environment that buoys individual ability while fostering teamwork and shared success. We believe that when people with diverse skills are bound together by a common purpose and value system, they can make magic.
For more details, please visit our career website at https://careers.drreddys.com/#!/