Hindustan Zinc
Website:
hzlindia.com
Job details:
Vedanta, a future-focused and growth-oriented company is a fully integrated producer of Oil & Gas, Zinc - Lead - Silver, Aluminium, Power, Iron Ore & Steel, Copper, Nickel, Cobalt, Ferro-chrome and Manganese, with a fast-growing metal recycling capacity, and a broad range of critical minerals. We are a dominant player in power generation, transmission, renewable energy solutions, optical fibre, display glass and soon semiconductors. With our world class, low-cost and long-life assets, Vedanta contributes 1.4% towards India’s GDP.
Hindustan Zinc, the world's largest and India's only integrated producer of zinc-lead-silver. With a market share of ~75% in India's primary zinc market, we are implementing high-impact projects across our business location to enhance volume and reduce costs as part of our growth capex agenda. With a strong leadership position on the domestic market and our growing global presence, our focus is set on expanding the production capacity to harness the unfolding demand opportunity, As we march together towards our core mission of transforming for good, we have an exciting opportunity for transformational leaders to join us and accelerate our growth journey.
Key Roles & Responsibilitie
- Lead the mechanical engineering scope for PAP units (hemihydrate/dihydrate routes).
- Ensure asset reliability (OEE > 90%) by implementing Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM), TPM, and Asset Performance Management (APM).
- Manage corrosion, erosion, scaling challenges in phosphoric acid reactors, evaporators, pipelines, storage tanks, and scrubbers.
- Approve equipment design for pumps, agitators, heat exchangers, crystallizers, filters, conveyors, scrubbers, compressors.
- Select and validate best-in-class MOCs (Alloy 20, Hastelloy, FRP, titanium, fluoropolymer linings, rubber-lined steel) for corrosive and erosive service.
- Drive standardization of equipment specifications, datasheets, and inspection protocols.
- Support process teams in achieving high P₂O₅ recovery, gypsum filtration efficiency, and fluorine scrubbing/FSA recovery.
- Benchmark plant performance against global leaders (Mosaic, OCP, IFFCO, Ma’aden) in terms of steam economy, energy intensity, and reliability indices (MTBF, MTTR).
- Introduce digital twins, predictive analytics, and APC systems for real-time equipment health monitoring.
- Lead mechanical scope of brownfield expansions and greenfield PAP projects.
- Review vendor designs, approve technical bid evaluations (TBE), and validate FAT/SAT of PAP mechanical systems.
- Drive debottlenecking and modernization programs for throughput improvement and emission reduction.
Desired Attributes:
- Candidate with 12+ years of relevant experience in fertilizer industry
- Qualification : BE/B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering
- Proven expertise in managing phosphoric acid (PAP) & complex fertilizer facilities.
- Exposure to global fertilizer industry practices.
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