The Smelter of the Aluminium Production Unit of Hindalco Industries Limited at Hirakud has a Potroom, a rodding plant with a carbon unit, and Cast houses. Molten aluminium is tapped out in ladles and supplied to cast houses where they are cast into Rolling Ingots, Cast Coils, pig ingots as well as Sow Ingots, utilizing entire liquid metal & Aluminium scrap from FRP. The products of Cast House are supplied to downstream plants of Hindalco or directly to external customers.
Hirakud has 3 cast houses linked to dedicated downstream FRPs- Belur,Taloja & Mouda as stated below.
DC1- It produces rolling ingots for Belur FRP unit & Sow Ingot for inter plant sale /3rd party sale in domestic/export.
DC2- It produces rolling ingots for Taloja and Belur FRP units and primary sow for 3rd party sale in domestic /export or inter plant.
Continious Caster- It produces continuous cast coil for Belur FRP unit.
This involves collaboration with other maintenance teams for plant availability and with the commercial and support functions for resource availability. Critical aspect is to embed right blend of maintenance practices such as preventive, predictive and reliability centred maintenance, breakdown maintenance as and when required as well as planned shutdown and overhauling
This role ensures all statutory compliances related to health, safety, energy and environment. This role is also required to focus on continuous improvement through capability building, improvement initiatives, performance monitoring as well as improvement of efficiency parameters, quality, safety and sustainability.
Key equipment includes
DC-1
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DC Casting machine- 1Nos
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Holding Furnaces- 2 Nos
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Cooling Tower- 1 Nos
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MCC & PCC
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EOT Crane- 2 Nos( 15T)
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Weigh Bridge- 2 Nos(20T)
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Forklift- 2Nos
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Motors- 40 Nos
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Lathe manchine-1 nos
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Spectrometer- 1nos
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HFO
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MTT system
DC-2
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DC casting Machine
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Holding Furnaces- 2 Nos
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Cooling Tower- 1 Nos
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MCC & PCC
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EOT Crane- 2 Nos( 15T)
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Weigh Bridge- 2 Nos(20T)
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Forklift- 2Nos
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PLC System
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Instrument Calibration
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Lathe Machine- 1nos
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Alpur system-1nos
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CFF system-1Nos
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Rod feeder-1Nos
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HFO
Continuous Caster(CC)
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MCC & PCC
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PLC system
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Holding cum tilting furnace( 20T)-2Nos
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Continuous casting Machine-1 set
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Alpur System
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Rod feeder system
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Cooling tower
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Compressor & Dryer-3 Nos
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EOT crane- 15T & 20 T- 2Nos
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Bailing Press machine-1 no
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Grinding machine-1 no
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Lathe Machine-1 no
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HFO system
Other common Area
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Calibration of all Instrumets
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LPG detector system
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Weights & measure(calibration weigh bridge, Flow meter)- 6 Nos weighbridges
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Lighting System
The criticalities of the role are reducing the meantime between failures (MTBF) and improving meantime to repair (MTTR). This role must also drive system improvement besides preventive maintenance and to improve equipment reliability and availability. Apart from these the role includes maintenance & upkeep of advanced PLC system at all the Cast houses along with taking care of C&I related issues & digitalization projects.
In order to ensure timely maintenance of all equipment spread across the five cast houses, this role must undertake maintenance planning in oracle system and data monitoring. The scope includes breakdown analysis and control, root cause analysis (RCA) and corrective and preventive action (CAPA)
Other important aspects of the role are vendor development for modifications of equipment and substitution of spare parts. It also involves awarding annual job contract for maintenance and service contracts.
The role involves statutory compliance with respect to annual approval of Chief electrical inspector and calibration of weighbridge.
Job Challenges:
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Vast number imported spare parts with long lead time making inventory management difficult.
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Old machines with old technology, where in many cases OEMs have close.
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Ensure to follow statutory regulation like-
1)IE rule-1956 section-29-46,47-59,60-62,63-73,74-93,
2)NFPA-70 E, OSHA 29,
3)FD system,
4)LPG detector system
5)IMS system.
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Upkeep of Basic Electrical Hygiene at workplace.
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Zero return base Pilog code creation.
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Monitoring of process parameter.
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Monitoring & capturing energy reading as per desire data base.
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Spare move order & Spare parts monitoring.
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Cable scheduling, cleaning, covering.
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Illumination study with action plan.
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Completing of carry forward General shift work within timeline.
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Action to close of all walkdown safety observation
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Upkeep of all statutory & maintenance related documentation.
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Calibration of all measuring instruments.
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Upkeep of critical equipment like Furnaces, EOT cranes, Cooling towers, Compressor, Transformers etc.
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Maintaining best practices for reliability improvement of MCC, Substation, DCP,Alpur,Caster equipments etc.
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Implementing best practices to develop motor maintenance & storage area.