Manager – Continuous Casting Machine (CCM) (Chegunta)

● Oversee daily operations of the 6/11 CCM (Concast India make, 4-strand) ensuring smooth, uninterrupted continuous casting. ● Manage and optimise automatic water-pressure / secondary cooling systems to produce high-quality, crack-free billets. ● Ensure zero-defect billet quality — eliminate crack, piping, and mouth-open defects before billets enter the rolling mill for hot-rolling into TMT bars. ● Plan, schedule, and execute preventive and breakdown maintenance of CCM equipment, ancillary machinery, and plant utilities. ● Maintain all machinery in optimum working condition; maintain maintenance logs, spare-parts inventory, and AMC schedules. ● Manage contract labour workforce — mobilise, deploy, supervise, and release contract workers as per production requirements. ● Liaise with manpower requirements and ensure adequate skilled workforce availability at all times. ● Coordinate with the Rolling Mill team to align billet quality parameters with hot-rolling requirements. ● Monitor and control process parameters — casting speed, temperature, mould oscillation, and cooling-water flow. ● Implement and enforce safety, health, and environmental (SHE) standards across the CCM floor. ● Drive continuous improvement initiatives to improve yield, reduce downtime, and enhance overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). ● Prepare and present daily, weekly, and monthly production and maintenance MIS reports to senior management. TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS ● Hands-on experience operating and maintaining a 4-strand or multi-strand Continuous Casting Machine (CCM). ● Deep knowledge of Concast India CCM equipment — mechanical, hydraulic, and electrical systems. ● Proficiency in secondary cooling / automatic water-pressure control systems for billet quality optimisation. ● Robust understanding of steel metallurgy — solidification behaviour, billet microstructure, and common casting defects (cracks, piping, segregation). ● Experience in hot-rolling quality requirements — understanding downstream rolling-mill defect sensitivities. ● Expertise in plant maintenance practices — TPM, breakdown analysis, root-cause analysis, and FMEA. ● Familiarity with refractory management, tundish preparation, and ladle operations. ● Working knowledge of contract labour laws and workforce management in a heavy-industry environment. QUALIFICATIONS Essential: ● B.E. / B.Tech in Metallurgical Engineering OR B.E. / B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering ● Minimum 10 years of hands-on experience in CCM / continuous casting operations in a steel plant ● Demonstrated experience in independently running a 4-strand (or higher) caster machine Preferred: ● M.Tech / M.E. (Metallurgy / Mechanical) or equivalent post-graduate qualification ● Prior experience with Concast India CCM equipment specifically ● Exposure to ERP / production-management systems Work Location: In person Apply on Kit Job: kitjob.in/job/4ma933