Assistant Manager - Reliability and Maintenance

Bunge Iberica SA; Gandhidham; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Assistant Manager - Reliability & Maintenance in Kandla, Gujarat, India, reports to the Assistant General Manager - Maintenance. The role focuses on day-to-day preventive, planned, shutdown and breakdown maintenance to drive asset reliability.

Responsibilities include translating business goals into maintenance targets, creating strategic plans, securing funding, managing the maintenance budget, and driving improvements with a proactive approach to equipment reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering
• 4–8 years of relevant experience
• Knowledge of pumps, couplings, seals, gearboxes, separators, heating and cooling systems

Responsibilities

• Attend day-to-day preventive, planned, shutdown as well as breakdown maintenance.
• Develop maintenance plans and budgets aligned with OEE metrics.
• Monitor energy KPIs and ensure uptime of utility equipment.
• Facilitate environmental, health and safety performance.
• Promote proactive maintenance and RCA to eliminate root causes

Skills

Problem solving

Communication

Lead the team

Decision maker

Education

Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

SAP

MS Office

Job description

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Assistant Manager - Reliability and Maintenance

Date: Jul 21, 2026

Location: Kandla, GJ, IN, 370140

City: Kandla State: Gujarāt (IN-GJ) Country: India (IN) Requisition Number: 46820

Business Title: Assistant Manager - Reliability & Maintenance

Reporting to: Assistant General Manager - Maintenance

Role Purpose Statement

To attend Day to day preventive, planned, Shutdown as well as breakdown maintenance.

Main Accountabilities

• Translates the organization's business goals into appropriate Maintenance, Reliability and Life Cycle Cost goals that support and contribute to the organization's business results. To carry out this responsibility.
• Uses the facility Mission Statement to articulate a Mission and Vision statement for the Maintenance and Reliability function.
• Creates tactical and strategic plans for achieving the mission.
• Prepares and presents the business case for plan implementation.
• Obtains approval and funding for executing the plans.
• Sells necessary changes to the stakeholders within and external to the organization.
• Identifies barriers and risks to plan implementation and develops necessary strategies to mitigate them.
• Defines necessary channels to adequately communicate plan implementation status to stakeholders.
• Reaches mutually beneficial agreement with all supported operating departments on required capacity specifications, ideally in terms of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) or similar metric that measures capacity losses related to quality, availability, and performance.
• Develops and controls the maintenance budget that provides for optimized spending to achieve the agreed-upon capacity and asset reliability.
• Periodically benchmarks current performance with internal and external sources to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Monitor & control the plant energy KPIs & ensure utility equipment’s uptime.
• Identify the opportunity of energy conservation , process & asset optimization & execute the compliance .
• Facilitates good environmental, health and safety performance.
• Develops and enforces a comprehensive Engineering Change Management process.
• Implements a structured process for performing maintenance work.
• Implements organizational structure and systems that promote a proactive approach to maintenance.
• Ensures effective use and integration of information technologies.
• Fosters a culture that does not tolerate equipment failures and seeks to understand and eliminate the causes using techniques such as Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Ensures equipment maintenance plans are created and implemented to support required levels of reliability.

Knowledge and Skills

Behavior

• Problem solving
• Communication
• Lead the team
• Decision maker

Technical

• Knowledge of pumps, couplings, seals, gearboxes, Separators, heating and cooling systems etc. Product and process knowledge in project management.
• Analytical Skill , SAP & MS office

Education & Experience

• Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering
• 4-8 years of relevant experience