Location: All India. Based in Bengaluru, with project sites across the country and extensive travel.
Employment: Full-time
Function: AgOps, working closely with Agronomy and Supply Chain
Reports to: Head AgOps
About FinAgra
FinAgra is building a new model for commercial agriculture in emerging markets. We combine financing, agronomy, technology, and farm operations to turn underperforming farmland into professionally managed, productive farming businesses.
About the Role
FinAgra is looking for a mechanisation engineer to plan and run machinery deployment end to end across our project sites, covering horticulture and agri crops. That means every mechanised operation in the crop calendar, from land preparation through sowing, weed management, earthing up and plant protection to harvest and post-harvest handling.
This is a hands-on technical role. You will decide which machines and implements each operation needs, match them to the tractor power and field conditions available, schedule their use across sites, keep them running, and train REPs and operators to use them properly. Quotations, negotiation and supplier selection sit with the supply chain team, with whom you will work closely.
What You Will Do
Mechanisation planning
- Build the mechanisation plan for each project site: the full sequence of machine operations for the crop and season, the implements required at each stage, and the field capacity and timing each one needs.
- Cover the full crop cycle end to end, including ploughing, harrowing, rotavation, levelling, ridging and bed forming, sowing and planting, inter-cultivation and weed management, earthing up, fertiliser application, plant protection spraying, harvesting, digging and threshing, and post-harvest handling.
- Assess the machinery already available at or around each site, whether owned by the REP, hired locally or available through custom hiring centres, and establish what can be used, what needs to be brought in and what should be added to the fleet.
- Match implements correctly to available tractor power and field conditions: horsepower, PTO speed, hitch category, hydraulic capacity, tyre and ground-pressure considerations, soil type and moisture.
- Recommend mechanisation options that reduce labour dependence and cost per acre, and support Total Cost of Ownership and Cost Benefit Analysis calculations, including cost per acre or per hour and expected payback.
Deployment and scheduling
- Schedule machine and operator deployment across multiple sites so that time-critical operations such as sowing, spraying and harvest happen in their window.
- Track machine utilisation, fuel consumption, downtime and output per hour, and use the data to improve deployment in the following season.
- Set operating standards and SOPs for each operation, including depth, speed, spacing, calibration and quality of finish, and check that work in the field meets them.
Maintenance, repair and troubleshooting
- Own preventive maintenance for all machinery in use: service schedules, lubrication, filters, hydraulics, wear parts and season-start and season-end overhauls.
- Diagnose breakdowns and performance problems across tractors, implements, pumps, sprayers and harvesting equipment, and identify the root cause rather than the symptom.
- Carry out repairs directly where practical, and where a repair needs a workshop or specialist, mobilise and supervise local mechanics, dealer service teams and fabricators to get the machine back into the field quickly.
- Build and maintain a network of local mechanics, workshops, spare-part dealers and custom hiring operators around each project cluster, and keep a working inventory of critical spares and wear parts.
- Keep machine-wise records of service history, repairs, spares consumed and downtime, using company digital tools and ERP.
Technical specification and evaluation
- Draft the technical and functional specification for machines and implements to be added, in a form the supply chain…