Senior Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

Valeo India Private Limited; Ahmedabad; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Valeo India Private Limited is seeking an Engineer/Sr. Engineer - Mechanical Maintenance to lead maintenance programs in a global automotive tech environment.

The role focuses on creating maintenance standards, developing preventive maintenance plans, and ensuring documentation accessibility for manufacturing equipment. The position requires training production teams on preventive tasks, driving reliability improvements, and supporting PM+ ERP initiatives to optimize uptime and reduce downtime

Qualifications

• Senior maintenance engineer with experience in automotive manufacturing.
• Strong skills in preventive maintenance planning and execution.
• Familiarity with CMMS tools like SAP PM+ and PM+.
• Ability to train and coach production teams.

Responsibilities

• Create and update maintenance work instructions for its perimeter.
• Prepare and implement preventive maintenance plans with standard times.
• Train and coach production teams in preventive maintenance best practices.
• Lead actions to improve maintenance KPIs (TRP, MTTR, MTBF).
• Participate in equipment performance control and ERP PM+ initiatives.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Preventive maintenance

Troubleshooting

Project coordination

Tools

PM+

e-WorkStation

SAP PM+

Job description

Engineer / Sr. Engineer - Mechanical Maintenance Valeo is a tech global company, designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent the mobility. We are an automotive supplier partner to automakers and new mobility actors worldwide. Our vision? Invent a greener and more secured mobility, thanks to solutions focusing on intuitive driving and reducing CO2 emissions. We are leader on our businesses, and recognized as one of the largest global innovative companies.

Manage standards Create and update maintenance work instructions for its perimeter, using e-WorkStation & PM+. Prepare and implement preventive maintenance plans, including standard times for each task; get them up-to-date in PM+. Train and coach the production teams in the proper apply of preventive maintenance tasks. Ensure the availability of the equipments & toolings documentation. Perform OJT on standards implemented. Define standards regarding the supply and inventory of spare parts and material needed for maintenance and participate to the sourcing of Maintenance spare parts suppliers. Ensure , together to the Safety network, the fulfilment of the Group Directives regarding Health & Safety and Safety of buildings and installations in its scope.

Manage Continuous Improvement Lead action plans to improve Maintenance KPIs (TRP, breakdown %, micro stoppages & technical slowdowns, MTTR, MTBF), maximizing equipment availability for production. Act to improve the reliability of equipments & toolings (obsolescence action plan, back-ups implementation ...). Participate to equipment performance control & improvement, for instance by participating to cycle time measurements and micro-stoppages observation sessions. Participate to Maintenance & ERIM workshops; Permanently promote ERIM and act to make it work. Participate to Maintenance QRQC & Weekly TPM/TRP progress meetings. Involve in troubleshooting on manufacturing equipment with malfunction from electrical or mechanical aspect; Support the teams in charge on the major technical issues. Pilot PDCA / FTA & Maintenance 5 WHYs on topics assigned by Maintenance Manager. Prepare LLC & Kaizen Cards. Ensure proper maintenance records Participate to the installation and commissioning of new manufacturing equipments, as per the IProM procedure, including of safety validation of equipments; and to potential refurbishments of manufacturing equipments. Be involved in EHS and productivity improvement activity. Share and transfer know-how Develop and maintain knowledge of debug and troubleshooting , including safety requirements; capitalize lessons learned. Involve in process improvement and productivity improvement activity. Act to minimize the equipment non-availability. Define and lead actions to avoid breakdowns’ recurrence. Proactively participate to the SAP PM+ implementation project and act for added-value use of PM+. Act to improve the Maintenance Organization and performance of its entity; propose improvements. Participate to maintenance budget preparation & propose potential organization improvements. Lead actions to reduce the total Maintenance costs participating as contributor of P-30. Participate, together with the Purchasing network, to the preparation of the yearly contracts regarding critical spare parts provision and overheads.

Job: Maintenance Engineer Organization: Maintenance Schedule: Full time Employee Status: Regular Job Type: Permanent contract Job Posting Date: 2026-07-31

Join Us ! Being part of our team, you will join:

• one of the largest global innovative companies, with more than 20,000 engineers working in Research & Development
• a multi-cultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration
• more than 100,000 colleagues in 31 countries... which make a lot of opportunity for career growth
• a business highly committed to limiting the environmental impact if its activities and ranked by Corporate Knights as the number one company in the automotive sector in terms of sustainable development

More information on Valeo: https://www.valeo.com Experience Level Senior Level