Arun Pandi

Committed and professional maintenance engineer with strong communication skills who prioritizes and fulfilling maintenance tasks. With 14+ years of career in maintenance and electrical engineering. Responsible for MR Purchasing, and Maintenance Engineering in a 24/7 continuous process and production-oriented manufacturing environment. Plan, budget and execute capital projects involving startup management and commissioning to successfully finalize them.

Senior Executive Maintenance

Perfetti Van Melle, Chennai, India. July 2018- Ongoing

Global leaderin confectionery manufacturing brands like Mentos, Chupa Chups, Alpenliebe,

Center fresh, Happy dent, Smint, Air heads.

• Ensure safe work practices as specified in the Safety Manual and Management Standards of Perfetti van melle Safety policy.
• Actively participate in the safety committee and key hazard team.
• Create and implement preventive maintenance schedule in accordance with equipment manufacturer’s recommendation and industry accepted practices for all plant equipment.
• Maintaining viable capital plan for equipment replacement and upgrading.
• Maintaining and monitoring annual plan for facility as well as balanced scorecard and standards and goals.
• Tracking maintenance expenditures, adjusting as needed, and reporting progress to the plant manager.
• Managing risks, issues and remove barriers to ensure completion of milestones on task and budget.
• Overseeing procurement, purchasing and rentals of maintenance equipment.
• Implement and lead food safety program, GMP and environmental management system.
• Refine and finalize labor, materials, parts, methods and priorities to accommodate best manufacturing practices.
• Implement and lead preventive maintenance program and workorder process flow to increase equipment uptime and production throughput.
• Coordinate effectively with operation to plan and schedule work to minimize maintenance costs and equipment downtime.
• Calibration and maintenance of instruments like control valves, transmitters like pressure, level and temperature, flow meters.
• Periodic assessment of machine safety like Thermography, Vibration measurement, Lubrication and testing as per statutory requirements for utilities and process machinery.

SAVOLA Foods Arabia,Jeddah, Saudi Arabia NOV 2015 - DEC 2017

Leading Edible oil Manufacturer and FMCG products in MENA region like Afia, Al Arabi, Panda.

• Participated in continuous improvement by generating suggestions and engaging in problem-solving activities to support teamwork.
• Created spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel for daily, weekly, and monthly reporting.
• 11KV/415V transformers, circuit breakers like VCB, ACB and protection relays, diesel generators, troubleshooting incidents at sites, and preparing incident reports.
• High and Low-pressure Boilers, Air compressors.
• Operation of Centrifugal and air-cooled chillers, Nitrogen generation plant.
• Maintenance of Edible oil refinery process and packing machinery.
• Instituting refinery process equipment's and PLCs like Siemens S7 300,400 & SCADA, PCS 7 DCS .

Perfetti Van Melle, Chennai, India. Nov 2011- Oct 2015

• Provide technical expertise on all matters of reliability engineering, assessment and monitoring for process equipment, including mechanical, electrical, instruments and PLC-control equipment.
• Implement identified reliability improvement projects and other assigned equipment/site improvement projects from conception through start-up while following and completing site Management of Change Procedures.
• Lead activities and technical support for Quality Assurance and Quality Control, installation, and Start-Up Management (SUM) with vector for vertical start-ups of newly installed equipment.
• Lead incident investigations and perform root cause analysis for incidents with a suspected Mechanical/Electrical Integrity and Quality Assurance cause.

Saint Gobain Glass India, Chennai. India AUG 2010-NOV 2011.

Electrical Engineer

Dunlop India, Chennai. India. Nov 2007- Aug 2010

BE: Electrical & Electronics Engineering, PSNA College of Engineering & Technology, Anna University - Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, India (2003-2007) with 72 %.