Shift Engineer

Purpose:

To lead and coordinate shift operations, ensuring safe, efficient, and continuous plant operation while achieving production, quality, and operational targets. The Shift Engineer supervises operating personnel, monitors process performance, and resolves operational issues during the assigned shift.

Job Responsibilities:

• Supervise and coordinate all production activities during the assigned shift.
• Ensure production targets are achieved in accordance with the production plan.
• Monitor process performance and ensure stable plant operation.
• Manage plant start-ups, shutdowns, and process changeovers.
• Shift-wise production planning, balance slurry distribution, forecast excess or shortage slurry planning to avoid preferred section shut down and execution.
• Reduction in production losses.
• Maximum plant throughput achievement.
• Monitor critical process parameters and equipment performance.
• Analyse process deviations and implement corrective actions.
• Troubleshoot operational problems affecting production, quality, or safety.
• Optimize process conditions to maximize efficiency and yield.
• Reduction in rework and off-spec product.
• Continuous process improvement initiatives.
• Control of steam, Power, Water consumption and optimization for Utility efficiency improvement.
• Supervise Shift, Process Operators, and Junior Operators.
• Allocate manpower effectively to meet operational requirements.
• Ensure proper shift handover and communication between shifts.
• Provide guidance, coaching, and on-the-job training to operating staff.
• Team performance management, shift discipline, attendance.
• management and Workforce utilization.
• Operator training and skill development.
• Ensure products meet quality specifications and customer requirements.
• Coordinate with Quality Control regarding product testing and quality issues at plant.
• Investigate process deviations and implement CAPA where required.
• Process parameter control and record each & every deviation.
• Reduction in quality deviations.
• Customer complaint reduction.
• Ensure compliance with all safety procedures, company policies, and environmental requirements.
• Conduct routine safety inspections and toolbox talks.
• Report and investigate incidents, near misses, and unsafe conditions.
• Promote a strong safety culture among shift personnel.
• Monitor Safety performance, LOTO compliance, PPE compliance.
• Waste reduction initiatives, Effluent and environmental compliance.
• Resource conservation activities and Sustainable operating practices.
• Coordinate with maintenance teams regarding equipment breakdowns and preventive maintenance.
• Ensure timely reporting of equipment abnormalities.
• Participate in shutdown and maintenance planning activities.
• Equipment uptime monitoring.
• Reduction in unplanned downtime.
• Review and maintain shift reports, production records, and process logs.
• Prepare daily operational reports and communicate key issues to management.
• Ensure accurate documentation of production performance, process deviations and record the causes of deviations.
• Participate in process improvement and cost-reduction initiatives
• Support root cause analysis (RCA) and CAPA implementation.
• Recommend improvements to enhance productivity, quality, and safety.
• Cost reduction initiatives and participate Productivity improvement projects.
• Cross-functional coordination and support another department.
• CIP schedule compliance, CIP effectiveness monitoring.
• Housekeeping of all the time of plant and 5S implementation.
• GMP and food safety compliance.

Last Date To Apply 20 August 2026