Head - Operations - Blast Furnace

Job Title : Head - Blast Furnace

Location : Raigarh Plant

Department : Blast Furnace

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Job Summary :

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- Responsible for the overall Blast Furnace Operations and Maintenance.

- Responsible for cost savings and efficiency improvement.

Duties And Responsibilities :

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

- Create the annual production plan and O&M budgets for the blast furnace and obtain approval from higher up.

- Reviews the production plans and oversees their effective implementation

- Ensures effective coordination with the raw material procurement team and with the sinter plant for sinter availability

- Coordinates with PPC or SMS to determine the hot metal requirement

- Planning for the blast furnace operations (skip charging system, burden calculation, sequencing of BF stoves)

- Ensures the smooth functioning & optimization of blast furnace process by maintaining stable furnace movement and thermal regime, proper burdening, distribution and analysis of process parameters.

- Oversee performance level of vendors engaged in blast furnace.

- Planning and validation of spares and consumables usage on a monthly basis.

- Ensures effective implementation of the Quality Control Plans.

- Oversees preparation of the predictive, preventive and scheduled maintenance plans to ensure minimum down time and enhance equipment reliability. The incumbent also ensures the effective coordination with mechanical and electrical departments for maintenance activities.

- Plan, Coordinate, implement, monitor, review and control all capital expenditure projects and ensure completion within budgeted time and cost thereby meeting the targeted deliverables.

- Initiates and oversees the implementation of Process Improvement Plans to maximize productivity and reduce cost.

- Ensures regular preparation of MIS and Costing reports and suggest corrective action in order to optimize the cost (ownership of MIS).

- Ensures an ethical and professional work culture

- Ensures safe working conditions with zero incident or accident.

- Ensures compliance with all relevant/statutory provisions under the applicable Acts

- Coordinates with other department heads at the plant as well as at Head office to ensure smooth running of the plant.

Job Specifications :

Educational Qualification: B.Tech/B.E. - Mechanical/ Metallurgy

Experience 18 - 20 years experience on Blast Furnace systems for large steel companies.

Performance Measures:

- Meeting production target within defined quality parameters

- Zero accident

- Improvement in production cost/ton

- Improvement in vendor performance target