Assets and Facility Supervisor

Job Description

Maintenance Supervisor (Asset & Facilities)

Location: Limón, Costa Rica (primary site)
Travel: Occasional travel to Caldera and San José
Work schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00–17:00 (on‑call availability for emergencies)
Hybrid: 1 day of home office per week

Who we are

At Maersk, we’re building an integrated logistics company that moves the world. Our depots play a critical role in enabling safe, efficient, and high‑quality container operations across the region.
We are looking for a Maintenance Supervisor who will ensure our assets, facilities, and equipment remain reliable, safe, and fully available for our operations.

This is a key leadership role at our largest site in Costa Rica (Limón), managing high‑value equipment and a distributed technical team across multiple depots.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a team of 4 direct reports: Maintenance Coordinators, Facilities Coordinator and Maintenance Planner.
• Ensure high availability of heavy equipment and critical assets through effective preventive, corrective and predictive maintenance.
• Manage assets of high financial value.
• Oversee all facility maintenance, ensuring infrastructure remains fully operational and compliant.
• Secure and renew mandatory permits (sanitary, environmental, wastewater, fuel, etc.) to ensure legal and safe operation.
• Manage spare parts inventory, balancing availability vs. obsolescence to protect P&L.
• Monitor and manage budget execution, cost control, and maintenance KPIs.
• Conduct frequent field walkthroughs, ensuring safe and correct execution of work across all sites.
• Foster a strong service mindset toward Operations and internal customers.

What we are looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Industrial, Mechanical, Civil), Electromechanics, or related fields.
• 5+ years of experience leading maintenance teams (heavy equipment + facilities).
• Proven experience managing assets of high value and technical complexity.
• Solid understanding of maintenance planning, work order control, inventory management, and compliance requirements.
• Strong leadership capabilities: coaching, performance management, discipline, structure, and follow‑through.
• Ability to lead teams across multiple sites with autonomy and accountability.
• Clear, assertive communication and a respectful leadership style.
• Strong customer‑service orientation and ability to work under operational pressure.
• Intermediate English is desirable (mainly for improvement projects and communication with global teams).
• Good command of Office tools (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint). #LI-MP1

Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race, colour, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy or parental leave, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

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