Mobile Harbour Crane Maintenance Supervisor

About the role

You will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and supervising maintenance activities for Mobile Harbour Cranes (MHCs) to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient container operations within a complex terminal environment.

Key responsibilities

• Supervise preventive, corrective and predictive maintenance of MHCs, spreaders and auxiliary systems.
• Ensure compliance with OEM standards, statutory requirements and terminal procedures.
• Prioritise and close defects from statutory inspections and examiner defect lists.
• Provide planning input on manpower, spare parts, tools and task sequencing to minimise downtime.
• Monitor equipment performance, analyse breakdowns, perform root‑cause analysis and implement corrective actions.
• Track maintenance KPIs such as availability, MTBF, MTTR and PM/CM ratios.
• Enforce HSE standards, including toolbox talks, risk assessments and Lockout/Tagout procedures.
• Coordinate with OEMs, contractors and external service providers for complex interventions.
• Manage spare parts inventory and maintain accurate records in the CMMS.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, including RCM, Kaizen and process optimisation.

Required profile

• Technically strong, hands‑on maintenance supervisor with a continuous improvement mindset.
• HND or bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
• Minimum three years’ experience in a supervisory maintenance role within terminal, port or industrial settings.
• Strong understanding of electrical and hydraulic systems and ability to read technical drawings.
• Good knowledge of Siemens PLCs and associated control systems.
• Proven ability to coach, mentor and transfer technical knowledge to team members.

Required skills

• Siemens PLC programming (STEP 7 SIMATIC Manager).
• Siemens SINAMICS drives operation, maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) such as IFS or SAP PM.
• Electrical and hydraulic system maintenance.
• Technical drawing interpretation.

What we offer

• Dynamic learning and training culture focused on Lean principles.
• Exposure to a structured maintenance environment centred on equipment reliability and safety.
• Opportunities to apply continuous‑improvement and reliability‑centred maintenance practices.
• Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams in a multinational workplace.