MaerskSealand

Maintenance Planning Manager

MaerskSealand • $90K — $110K *
Transportation
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in maintenance planning in heavy-asset environments.
  • Demonstrated leadership ability with maintenance teams and planners.
  • Strong technical background in mechanical, electrical, civil, or hydraulic disciplines.
  • Experience with CMMS or EAM software, such as SAP or Maximo.
  • Fluent in Spanish and proficient in English for effective communication.
  • A keen mindset for continuous improvement and problem-solving.

Responsibilities

  • Own and maintain the terminal's comprehensive maintenance plan.
  • Forecast resource needs including labor, materials, and external contractors.
  • Plan and ensure safe execution of preventive and predictive maintenance tasks.
  • Govern the scheduling and allocation of work across various teams and contractors.
  • Manage the maintenance backlog based on asset criticality and operational constraints.
  • Build and maintain OPEX budgets and forecasts based on maintenance activities.
  • Utilize analytics to monitor performance and enhance maintenance processes.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and coaching.
  • A focus on continuous improvement and leadership growth.
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams across various domains.
  • Engagement with advanced analytics and performance monitoring systems.
Full Job Description
APM Terminals

Location: Valencia, Spain


  • Shape the terminal’s transition from reactive maintenance towards a proactive, disciplined maintenance organisation.
  • Work across maintenance, operations, inventory, procurement, finance, reliability and regional asset management teams.
  • Develop planners and technicians through clear expectations, coaching, mentoring and delegated ownership.
  • Use asset data, planning systems and performance analytics to improve reliability, cost control and operational continuity.

Key Responsibilities
  • Own the terminal maintenance plan, ensuring its accuracy, planning horizon, quality and schedule adherence across rolling, annual and multi-year cycles.
  • Forecast workload and resource requirements, including labour, materials, contractors, tooling and specialist support, and translate asset strategies into executable local work packages.
  • Plan preventive and predictive maintenance, refurbishments, overhauls and major interventions, ensuring each activity is technically scoped, resource-loaded and ready for safe execution.
  • Govern work order planning, scheduling and allocation across maintenance teams and contractors, with complete documentation covering labour, materials, standard time, permits, safety controls, tooling and instructions.
  • Prioritise and manage the maintenance backlog using asset criticality, operational risk, service levels, availability, cost and local operational constraints.
  • Build maintenance OPEX budgets and rolling forecasts from maintenance plans, historical performance, consumption patterns and expected workload, while supporting right-part, right-time availability.
  • Use CMMS or ERP systems and analytics to monitor work control, plan adherence, scheduling performance and reporting, while partnering with terminal and regional stakeholders to improve processes and performance.

What We Are Looking For
  • Continuous improvement mindset: we are looking for someone who brings a thoughtful improvement mindset—curious about how work gets done and motivated to make meaningful, sustainable improvements over time.
  • Leadership expectation: We are looking for people who consistently put customers first, lead by example with respect for people, deliver results with integrity, and drive continuous improvement by solving problems at the root, developing people, and raising standards every day.
  • Bring hands-on maintenance planning and scheduling experience gained in a heavy-asset environment such as ports, terminals, utilities, heavy industry or a comparable setting.
  • Demonstrate supervisory experience leading maintenance technicians and/or planners, with the ability to coordinate effectively across operations, inventory, procurement and contractors.
  • Apply strong technical knowledge across mechanical, electrical, civil and/or hydraulic disciplines, together with expertise in lifecycle planning, work scoping, demand planning, forecasting and risk-based prioritisation.
  • Use CMMS or EAM platforms such as SAP, IFS, Maximo, Infor EAM or equivalent to govern work, plans, schedules and reporting, supported by confident numerical and analytical reasoning.
  • Communicate fluently in Spanish and operate effectively in English, the corporate language, while influencing stakeholders through clear analysis, collaboration and attention to detail.

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About MaerskSealand

Maersk Sealand is a Danish shipping company that provides container shipping services. The company was founded in 1904 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. Maersk Sealand is a subsidiary of A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, a global conglomerate that operates in various industries including shipping, logistics, and energy. Maersk Sealand has a fleet of over 700 vessels and serves clients in various industries including retail, automotive, and healthcare.
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