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Aqua

Leadership

The Thinking Behind the Work.

Three decades of operations have taught Aqua where results actually come from: people who are trained before they are deployed, processes that hold through every shift, and leaders who stay close to the site.

Since
1996
Experience
30+ years
Group companies
Five
Coverage
PAN-India capability

The team

The people accountable for the work.

  • Rajesh Shah, Founder & Chairman of Aqua

    Rajesh Shah

    Founder & Chairman

    Founded Aqua in 1996 and has led the organisation through its growth from facility services into an integrated operational-services group.

  • Anal Shah, Director of Aqua

    Anal Shah

    Director

    Directs the group's operations across facilities, workforce, industrial services and infrastructure.

  • Jignesh Shah, Head - Finance & Account of Aqua

    Jignesh Shah

    Head - Finance & Account

    Leads finance and accounts for the group, covering billing, payroll and statutory payments across sites.

  • Vishwaraj Puwar, Head - HR & IR of Aqua

    Vishwaraj Puwar

    Head - HR & IR

    Leads human resources and industrial relations, from sourcing and onboarding to workforce compliance and welfare.

  • Nirav Patel, Head - Operations of Aqua

    Nirav Patel

    Head - Operations

    Leads site operations across facilities, industrial and infrastructure contracts, including deployment, supervision and service delivery.

  • Rajendra Patel, Head - Operations Facility of Aqua

    Rajendra Patel

    Head - Operations Facility

    Leads facility operations across client sites, from deployment and supervision to day-to-day service delivery.

Chairman's Message

“For three decades, Aqua has been built on trust, people and an uncompromising commitment to service excellence.”
Rajesh Shah, Founder & Chairman of AquaRajesh ShahFounder & Chairman

Messages

Each part of the operation, in its own words.

Finance and accounts, HR and IR, operations and facility operations — what each of them is accountable for.

Jignesh Shah

Finance & Accounts Message

Wages on time, every month, at every site.

A facility contract is judged on the floor, but it runs on money moving correctly behind the scenes. Salaries, statutory dues, vendor payments and client billing all have dates, and those dates do not move.

Our teams are spread across states and sites, so payroll is built off the same attendance record the client sees. What was deployed is what gets paid and what gets billed — one set of numbers, not three.

Statutory obligations — PF, ESI, professional tax, GST — are treated as part of running the contract rather than as paperwork at year end. Clients who ask for compliance records get them with the invoice, not after a reminder.

Jignesh Shah

Head - Finance & Account

Aqua Facility Services Pvt. Ltd.

Vishwaraj Puwar

HR's Message

A career here can start on the floor.

Most of the people who run our sites today did not join as managers. They joined as housekeeping staff, technicians and operators, learned the work, and moved up because the record supported it. That route is open, and it is the one we look at first when a supervisory role opens.

Nobody reaches a site untrained. Skill mapping, induction and safety orientation happen before deployment, and training continues on site. We hire ITI and non-ITI technicians, production workforce, housekeeping teams, supervisors and corporate staff — and we hire year round, across states.

What we ask for is straightforward: turn up, follow the method, look after your team and take the work seriously. What we give back is steady employment, statutory compliance handled properly, training that adds to your skill, and a clear path upward for anyone willing to take it.

Vishwaraj Puwar

Head - HR & IR

Aqua Facility Services Pvt. Ltd.

Nirav Patel

Operations Message

The plan only counts if it holds at 3am.

A contract can say sixty people. What matters is whether the right sixty were on the right stations, in the shift that mattered, on the day something went wrong. Our job is to make that true every day, not on review day.

So each site gets its own manpower plan, its own frequencies and its own escalation matrix, and supervisors who stay on the floor rather than in an office. Mechanised equipment is matched to the surface, the footfall and the access conditions. Replacements are arranged before an absence becomes a gap in your operation.

Everything is recorded: digital attendance, geo-tagged inspections, photo-verified tasks, tickets with named owners and closure times. When we sit down for a review, we are both looking at the same record — not at two different versions of the month.

Nirav Patel

Head - Operations

Aqua Facility Services Pvt. Ltd.

Rajendra Patel

Facility Operations Message

A site is judged on what the client sees every morning.

Lobbies, washrooms, shop floors and common areas are the first thing anyone notices, and they are noticed every single day. Our job is to make that first look the same on a Monday morning as it is on a Saturday night shift.

Each site gets its own schedule, its own frequencies and its own checklist, and a supervisor who walks the floor rather than reading about it later. Machines, chemicals and consumables are matched to the surfaces and the footfall of that building, not ordered from a standard list.

When a client raises something, it becomes a task with a name and a closing time against it. The record we review together at month end is the same record our teams filled in on site, shift by shift.

Rajendra Patel

Head - Operations Facility

Aqua Facility Services Pvt. Ltd.

Where it began

From one contract to an operating group.

Aqua began in 1996 as a facility-services organisation. Mechanised equipment replaced manual methods as sites grew more demanding. Workforce and production manpower followed, because clients needed the people as much as the process. Industrial operations and maintenance extended the scope from buildings into plant assets, and railway and infrastructure work brought Aqua into high-footfall public environments. Today the group runs as one operating structure across all of it.

  1. 1996

    Founded

    Operations begin as a facility-services organisation, under ownership that still leads the group today.

  2. Mechanisation

    Equipment over effort

    Investment in scrubbers, sweepers and high-pressure systems moves execution beyond manual cleaning.

  3. Workforce

    People at scale

    HR, workforce solutions and ITI / non-ITI production manpower extend Aqua into manufacturing environments.

  4. Industrial

    Into the plant

    Technical manpower and structured O&M processes take the scope from facilities to plant assets.

  5. Infrastructure

    Public environments

    Mechanised systems, manpower and supervision applied to railway and infrastructure sites.

  6. Today

    One operating layer

    Digital attendance, verification, ticketing and MIS run across every site the group operates.

What we hold to

Five things leadership does not negotiate.

01

Nobody reaches a site untrained

Skill mapping, induction and safety orientation happen before deployment, not after the first incident.

02

The record is the report

Attendance, geo-tagged verification and audit logs replace claimed completion with recorded completion.

03

Supervision stays on the floor

Site supervisors and area managers run inspections and corrective actions where the work happens.

04

Compliance is daily, not annual

Statutory and client-specific obligations are met through the deployment process rather than assembled at audit time.

05

Own the outcome

Scope boundaries matter less than whether the operation performs. Responsibility sits with Aqua.

Careers

A place where the work teaches you something.

Aqua hires housekeeping teams, ITI and non-ITI technicians, production workforce, supervisors and corporate staff. Supervisory and site-management roles are filled from within wherever the skill and record support it, so a career here can start on the floor and grow into running a site.

  • Training and induction before deployment
  • Supervisory roles filled from within where the record supports it
  • Work across manufacturing, infrastructure, corporate and public environments
Aqua's representatives receiving The Gujarat State Best Employer Brand Award 2026 certificate and trophy on stage.

Recognition

The Gujarat State Best Employer Brand Awards 2026

10th Edition · 11 August 2026 · Fairfield by Marriott, Ahmedabad, Gujarat

The road ahead

Where Aqua is heading.

The direction is set by what clients keep asking for: fewer vendors, more evidence and technology that shows what happened on site without waiting for a monthly review.

One partner, wider scope

Consolidating facilities, workforce, maintenance and infrastructure support under a single accountable structure.

Operations you can see

Extending digital attendance, verification, ticketing and MIS across every site the group runs.

Deeper technical capability

Building the technician and O&M bench that industrial clients need as plants get more demanding.

Growing our own people

Training pathways that move workers into technical and supervisory roles inside the group.

Talk to us

Talk to the people who run the work.

Whether you want to discuss a site, a workforce requirement or a career at Aqua, the conversation starts in the same place.