Maintenance Planning Manager

About the role

APM Terminals, a global leader in port and terminal operations, is looking for a Maintenance Planning Manager in Valencia, Spain. The role leads the terminal's shift from reactive maintenance to a proactive, disciplined maintenance organisation, working across maintenance, operations, inventory, procurement, finance, reliability and regional asset management teams.

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 (labour, materials, contractors, tooling, specialist support) and turn asset strategies into local work packages.
• Plan preventive and predictive maintenance, refurbishments, overhauls and major interventions, with technical scope and resources ready for safe execution.
• Govern work order planning, scheduling and allocation across maintenance teams and contractors, with documented labour, materials, standard time, permits, safety controls, tooling and instructions.
• Prioritise the maintenance backlog by asset criticality, operational risk, service levels, availability, cost and local constraints.
• Build maintenance OPEX budgets and rolling forecasts, supporting right-part, right-time availability.
• Use CMMS or ERP systems and analytics to monitor work control, plan adherence and scheduling performance, and partner with terminal and regional stakeholders on process improvement.

Required profile

• Hands-on maintenance planning and scheduling experience in a heavy-asset environment such as ports, terminals, utilities or heavy industry.
• Supervisory experience leading maintenance technicians and/or planners, coordinating across operations, inventory, procurement and contractors.
• Strong technical knowledge of mechanical, electrical, civil and/or hydraulic disciplines, plus lifecycle planning, work scoping, demand planning, forecasting and risk-based prioritisation.
• Fluent Spanish and effective English, the corporate language.

Required skills

• CMMS or EAM platforms such as SAP, IFS, Maximo or Infor EAM.
• Numerical and analytical reasoning.