Assistant Manager - Reliability and Maintenance

Bunge Iberica SA; Kandla; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Bunge Iberica SA in India seeks an Assistant Manager - Reliability & Maintenance to lead preventive, planned, and breakdown maintenance across the site in Kandla.

You will translate business goals into maintenance targets, develop strategic plans, manage budgets, and drive energy efficiency while upholding safety standards and an engineering change management process.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• 4–8 years of relevant experience.
• Knowledge of pumps, couplings, seals, gearboxes, separators, heating and cooling systems; product and process knowledge in project management.
• Analytical skill; SAP & MS Office.

Responsibilities

• Translate the organization's business goals into maintenance, Reliability and Life Cycle Cost goals.
• Create tactical and strategic plans for achieving the mission and seek approvals/funding.
• Monitor energy KPIs and ensure plant uptime.
• Foster a culture of RCA to eliminate root causes of failures.
• Develop and enforce maintenance processes and organizational structures for proactive reliability.

Skills

Problem solving

Communication

Team leadership

Decision making

Education

Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

SAP

MS Office

Job description

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

• Attend day‑to‑day preventive, planned, shutdown, and breakdown maintenance.

Main Accountabilities

• Translate the organization's business goals into appropriate Maintenance, Reliability and Life Cycle Cost goals that support and contribute to the organization's business results, and carry out this responsibility.
• Use the facility Mission Statement to articulate a Mission and Vision statement for the Maintenance and Reliability function.
• Create tactical and strategic plans for achieving the mission.
• Prepare and present the business case for plan implementation.
• Obtain approval and funding for executing the plans.
• Sell necessary changes to stakeholders within and external to the organization.
• Identify barriers and risks to plan implementation and develop necessary strategies to mitigate them.
• Define necessary channels to adequately communicate plan implementation status to stakeholders.
• Reach mutually beneficial agreements with all supported operating departments on required capacity specifications, ideally in terms of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) or a similar metric measuring capacity losses related to quality, availability, and performance.
• Develop and control the maintenance budget that provides optimized spending to achieve the agreed‑upon capacity and asset reliability.
• Periodically benchmark current performance with internal and external sources to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Monitor and control plant energy KPIs and ensure utility equipment’s uptime.
• Identify opportunities for energy conservation, process and asset optimization, and execute compliance.
• Facilitate good environmental, health and safety performance.
• Develop and enforce a comprehensive Engineering Change Management process.
• Implement a structured process for performing maintenance work.
• Implement organizational structure and systems that promote a proactive approach to maintenance.
• Ensure effective use and integration of information technologies.
• Foster a culture that does not tolerate equipment failures and seeks to understand and eliminate the causes using techniques such as Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Ensure 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

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