About the role
- Ensures full compliance to Indian Regulatory framework requirements for dam civil maintenance and HSS (i.e. in line to CWC, CEA, DSA, national building code, international / Indian standard etc. requirements).
- Responsible for overall dam safety program at plant site, including safeguarding compliance with all applicable relevant requirements and communication in accordance with Dam safety act.
- Responsible for documentation preparation pertaining to safe and efficient operation and dam / intake and other civil infrastructure in line with the Indian Statutory and regulatory requirements.
- Responsible for operation and maintenance of Early Warning System (EWS) in line with the applicable CEA / CWC guidelines.
- Ensures implementation of HSS requirements, risk assessment, monitoring, inspections, maintenance, community safety (in line with the DSA/CWC requirements) and reporting to State/Central dam safety authority.
- Maintenance for complete plant civil infrastructure, including daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports and checklists.
- Preparation and implementation of silt management plan at plant level.
- Prepare and manage plant civil infrastructure budget, work to optimize the costs and maximize production. This includes developing and tracking the monthly, quarterly, and annual civil infrastructure budget.
- Delegates and assigns work tasks to civil team to maintain optimum plant operations.
- Support O&M head in plant improvement projects, modernization initiatives, digital transformation, and other applicable upgrades.
- Maintains plant critical spares inventory to meet the exigencies, in co-ordination with plant maintenance heads.
- Lead, train and develop civil team at Plant and prepare a detailed training calendar for plant civil team accordingly.
- Develop and execute risk management strategies to mitigate Operational risks and ensure compliance with internal audits.
- Prepares and maintains plant civil maintenance records and presents the same to the management on need basis.
- IMS implementation, documentation preparation and updating, pertaining to your area.
- B.E/B.Tech in Civil Engineering.
- 15+ years of experience in operations and maintenance within hydropower or pump storage plants.
- Must have expertise in the Dam/Reservoir maintenance.
- Other Professional certifications pertaining to civil engineering is preferred.
- Strong knowledge of Statutory and regulatory requirements pertaining to Hydro and PSS Plants (CWC, CEA, Dam safety act, national building code, international / Indian standard etc.).
- Well conversation with GLOF, LLOF, geological hazards, dam break study, transient analysis, physical modeling studies, EWS requirements etc.
- Well conversant with the reporting requirements to the state / central dam safety authority in line with the CEA, CWC and DSA requirements etc.
- Operations experience of large-scale pump storage power plants is preferred.
- Experience with CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management Systems) for Plant maintenance works.
- Knowledge of analytics tools for performance optimization and risk assessment.