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.

General Electrical Engineer

  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 .

Senior Executive Maintenance

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.

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