- Manpower deployment: Ensuring the right number of people are available to keep the plant running safely and smoothly
- Plant parameter optimization: Making adjustments to plant parameters to improve plant efficiency
- Equipment maintenance: Planning equipment maintenance, including safely handing over and taking back equipment without affecting production targets
- Coordination: Working with other plant shift incharges to ensure utilities, power, and other inputs are available for smooth operation
- Product dispatch: Meeting product dispatch requirements
- Troubleshooting: Identifying and fixing potential hazards and downtime
- Improvement schemes: Using experiences from shift operations to develop improvement schemes
- Shutdown and start up: Closely monitoring shutdown and start up activities
- Material loss points: Monitoring loss points of materials being handled
- Standby equipment: Ensuring standby equipment is available
- Lab analysis: Analyzing samples other than R-material or final product