Maintenance Specialist (MRO - Maintenance Repair and Operations)
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Maintenance ManagerIn this role, you will have the opportunity to lead the processes in maintaining and preserving the efficiency of all equipment, production lines, and/or facilities, resulting in the optimization of technical and financial resources. Each day, you will oversee execution of ordinary and extraordinary maintenance of equipment, production lines, and/or facilities. You will also showcase your expertise by managing and updating technical documentation of equipment, production lines, and/or facilities.
The work model for the role is: #Li-Onsite
This role is contributing to the Electrification business in Distribution Solution division at Nashik, India.
You will be mainly accountable for:
- Manage MRO procurement of maintenance spares, consumables, tools, and specialized contractor services as per maintenance requirements and timelines.
- Plan and control maintenance spare parts inventory, including MSL/ROL, forecasting, criticality assessment, lead-time management, and inventory reduction.
- Manage maintenance stores operations, ensuring proper receipt, storage, identification, system updates, and availability of critical spares.
- Develop alternate/local sources for imported, high-cost, and OEM spare parts to optimize cost and improve availability.
- Coordinate supplier performance and material availability, including PO tracking, delivery follow-up, quality issues, and corrective actions to minimize maintenance downtime.
- Ensure compliance and continuous improvement through ABB procurement procedures, Ariba/catalogue buying, Lean, 5S, TPM, Kaizen, and applicable ISO standards.
- Degree in Electrical or Mechanical engineering (should be full-time)
- Minimum 3 to 5 years of experience in MRO procurement, sourcing, purchase order management, cost negotiation, and vendor development.
- Hands-on experience in procurement of maintenance spares, including CNC machines, ABB robots, EOT cranes, conveyors, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and air compressor spares.
- Strong knowledge of SAP-MM, inventory management, invoice processing, import shipment handling, and Incoterms.
- Working knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, 5S, TPM, and Kaizen with experience in continuous improvement initiatives.
- Strong negotiation, communication, vendor management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
More about us
ABB's Distribution Solutions Division facilitates the efficient and reliable distribution, protection and control of power by improving electric power quality while strengthening the resilience of the grid. The Division offers segment-specific products and solutions that largely serve utilities, industry and infrastructure segments, often providing the requisite medium-voltage link between high-voltage transmission systems and low-voltage users. With ABB Ability™ enabled connected solutions at its core, the offering includes medium-voltage air- and gas-insulated switchgear (1 to 66 kilovolts), indoor and outdoor circuit breakers, reclosers, fuses, contactors, relays, instrument transformers, sensors, motor control centers, as well as low-voltage switchgear for the ANSI standard markets.
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Maintenance Specialist (MRO - Maintenance Repair and Operations) at ABB scores 37 out of 100 on AI centrality, which makes it AI Level 1 of 4 (Little AI) on this board. The level measures how much of the work is AI, not seniority.
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