Industrial maintenance, a career of the future according to Bhavish Mahadoo
When Bhavish Mahadoo talks about his profession, he does so candidly. He has just joined PPI Packaging Ltd as a Junior Maintenance Engineer. At 25 years old, he is convinced that industrial maintenance deserves to be better understood and better recognized.
A graduate in Electro-Mechanical and Automation Engineering from the University of Mascareignes, Bhavish oriented his studies toward industry at an early stage. The mandatory internships in his academic program played a decisive role. They allowed him to move from theoretical concepts to real-world situations, to understand how factories operate, and to grasp the complexity of industrial equipment.
It was during an internship at Panagora in February 2024 that he discovered the Eclosia Group and realized its scale. “I didn’t realize how present Eclosia was in my daily life,” he explains. This immersion at Panagora was made possible through the first Job Fair organized at the University of Mascareignes, in collaboration with Eclosia, as part of the Horizon Industrie program. “These Job Fairs are a real meeting point between university and industry,” Bhavish emphasizes. It was also on that occasion that he discovered the opportunities available and began to envision himself at PPI.
Today, at PPI, he works on the maintenance of major industrial machines, including the corrugator and the carton printing and cutting equipment. The job is demanding, sometimes unpredictable, and may require weekend interventions to allow production to restart. “When a machine stops, you have to analyze, understand, and act quickly,” he sums up.
For Bhavish, industrial maintenance is not limited to repairs. “There is a whole aspect of analysis, planning, and calculation. The decisions made have a direct impact on the safety and performance of the factory.” This is where, according to him, the engineer’s role truly makes sense.
However, he regrets that the maintenance profession still suffers from many misconceptions. Too often, electromechanical engineering is poorly perceived or reduced to purely technical functions. “It’s a misunderstood profession,” he states. His message? Parents and young people need to change their perspective.
Bhavish insists on the significant number of opportunities in the field. “Industry is modernizing very rapidly. Technologies are evolving at a steady pace and require new skills,” he says.
What is Horizon Industrie?
Horizon Industrie, an initiative of Eclosia, aims to promote, train, recruit, and retain talent in the field of maintenance. Rather than being an industrial school in the traditional sense, Horizon Industrie collaborates with academic institutions such as the University of Mascareignes and Collège Technique St Gabriel to offer specialized training to the Group’s technicians. The objective is twofold: to enhance the value of technical professions and to meet Eclosia’s immediate and future operational needs.