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BRL-OPS-01 · O&M & Asset Management
Head of Asset Management & O&M
Power Generation Pune (Head Office) · On-site 18–24 years · Leadership Board track
Lead the operation, maintenance and asset management of BARREL's generation, storage and grid assets across India. You are accountable for availability, generation and the long-term value of every operating asset, and for building an O&M organisation that runs on data.
Scope of work
- Set the O&M strategy, organisation and operating standards for solar, wind, hybrid, BESS and substation assets.
- Lead plant managers, the remote operations centre and the central performance engineering team.
- Approve annual maintenance plans, spares strategies and O&M budgets for each asset.
- Run monthly performance reviews on availability, performance ratio, generation shortfall and safety.
- Decide between in-house and outsourced O&M for each asset and manage the O&M contractors.
- Lead root cause analysis of major failures and make sure lessons are applied across the fleet.
- Own warranty and insurance claims for equipment failures and natural catastrophe events.
- Plan life-extension, repowering and augmentation investments with engineering and finance.
- Set up predictive maintenance and fleet analytics through BARREL OS.
- Support asset valuations, due diligence and transfers on the Power Asset Exchange.
Technical description
- Asset management system aligned with ISO 55001.
- Performance monitoring and analysis to IEC 61724-1 and IEC 61724-3.
- Reliability-centred maintenance and failure modes and effects analysis for inverters, trackers, transformers and BESS.
- Drone-based thermography and electroluminescence surveys of module fields.
- SCADA, plant controller and data historian platforms used for fleet monitoring.
- Compliance with the CEA Measures relating to Safety and Electric Supply Regulations 2023, IEGC 2023 and the CERC DSM Regulations 2024.
- Wind turbine O&M practice and BESS capacity testing to IEC 62933-2-1.
Commercial description
- Own the fleet O&M P&L: cost per MW, availability, generation and revenue at risk.
- Meet PPA availability and minimum-generation obligations and avoid compensation payments.
- Reduce deviation charges in cooperation with the forecasting and scheduling team.
- Negotiate and manage O&M and spares contracts with OEMs and service providers.
- Recover value from warranty and insurance claims in full and on time.
- Report asset performance and capital needs to the CEO, investors and the Board.
Skills required
- Fleet-level O&M leadership for renewable and grid assets.
- Asset management planning and life-cycle costing.
- Performance analysis and loss attribution.
- Maintenance strategy and spares optimisation.
- Root cause analysis leadership.
- OEM, warranty and insurance claim management.
- Data-driven operations and analytics adoption.
- Building safety culture at remote sites.
- Board and investor reporting.
Talent we look for
- You think in decades about an asset, not in quarters.
- You trust data, and you also go to the plant to see for yourself.
- You build teams that fix problems at the root.
- You stay composed during outages and lead from the front.
- You are disciplined about cost without starving maintenance.
Qualifications
- B.E./B.Tech in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering; an MBA is an advantage.
- Eighteen or more years in power plant operations, with at least eight in renewables and five leading a multi-site fleet.
- Responsibility for an operating fleet of 1 GW or more.
- ISO 55001 or asset management certification is an advantage.
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