General Description
The Site Supervisor prepares and oversees on-site installation and logistics activities, ensuring compliance with safety, quality, and project requirements. Key responsibilities include coordinating daily operations, managing teams, and supervising contractors. This role promotes a strong culture of safety and quality leadership while ensuring adherence to schedules and process maps. As seniority increases, the complexity of tasks, autonomy, and leadership responsibilities also grow.Description Functions
- Responsible for on-site installation activities on regular projects or parts of bigger projects
- Participation and preparation of the project installation plan.
- Logistical organization of the equipment on site .
- Organize proper unloading and site logistics
- Instruct the installation team about installation requirements on a project
- Delegate installation responsibility to suppliers / partners.
- Proper preparation of the start-up of the installation of the equipment
- Provide proper feedback about progress and status
- Perform quality checks on installation and the processes
- Create and support a high-quality hand over to commissioning
- Support commissioning during the testing phase
- Organize all site related activities for the project until handover to costumer
- Ensure Health and Safety requirements.
- Create a safe working environment during the project installation phases
- Monitor and manage project costs under his responsibility, ensure budget compliance, validate expenses, and report variances to maintain profitability.
Relevant technical aspects
- Degree in electrical/mechanical engineering or intermediate/higher studies in industrial mechatronics/electronics/electricity/mechanics
Profile Requirements
- Must have the training or ability certificate, as well as present it.
- Not have criminal or police record due to the location of the project.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Experience in team management.
- Leadership skills.
- Excellent communication and motivational skills
- Dynamic problem solver
- Strong analytical skills
- Taking the initiative, work autonomously
- Delegating
- Customer orientation
- Cooperating
- Flexibility
- Planning and organization
- Stress resistance
- Safety awareness
- Ability to work within an international work environment, especially working within a project organization
- International and multicultural awareness
Level/years of experience
- 2 years’ experience.
% Trips
Willingness to travel on site (90%).
Other requirements (license, etc.)
Driving license
Languages (level)
- Spanish: native or advanced level
- Fluent English (minimum B2 level)
- Knowledge of other languages such as French, Italian, and German will be an asset
Skills Required
- Degree in electrical or mechanical engineering or intermediate/higher studies in industrial mechatronics/electronics/electricity/mechanics
- Possess and present required training or ability certificate
- No criminal or police record (location-specific requirement)
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Experience in team management
- Leadership skills
- Excellent communication and motivational skills
- Problem solving and strong analytical skills
- Ability to take initiative and work autonomously
- Delegation skills
- Customer orientation and cooperation
- Flexibility, planning and organization
- Stress resistance and safety awareness
- Ability to work in an international, multicultural project organization
- Driving license
- Spanish native or advanced level
- Fluent English (minimum B2)
- Knowledge of French, Italian, or German
- Minimum 2 years experience
- Willingness to travel to sites (approximately 90%)
Vanderlande Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vanderlande and has not been reviewed or approved by Vanderlande.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with day‑one eligibility in many U.S. roles and employer‑paid protections that reduce out‑of‑pocket exposure. Feedback suggests medical, dental, and vision are a clear strength.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting in the U.S. Feedback suggests this forms a solid pillar of the total rewards package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, sick leave, and paid holidays are characterized as generous relative to peers. Compressed workweek options in some roles further support time away and recovery.
Vanderlande Insights
What We Do
Vanderlande is the global market leader for future-proof logistic process automation at airports. The company is also a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses and in the parcel market. Vanderlande’s baggage handling systems are capable of moving over 4 billion pieces of baggage around the world per year. Its systems are active in more than 600 airports including 12 of the world’s top 20. More than 52 million parcels are sorted by its systems every day, which have been installed for the world’s leading parcel companies. In addition, many of the largest global e-commerce players and retailers have confidence in Vanderlande’s efficient and reliable solutions. The company focuses on the optimisation of its customers’ business processes and competitive positions. Through close cooperation, it strives for the improvement of their operational activities and the expansion of their logistical achievements. Vanderlande’s extensive portfolio of integrated solutions – innovative systems, intelligent software and life-cycle services – results in the realisation of fast, reliable and efficient automation technology. Established in 1949, Vanderlande has more than 7,500 employees, all committed to moving its customers’ businesses forward at diverse locations on every continent. With a consistently increasing turnover of 1.8 billion euros, it has established a global reputation over the past seven decades as a highly reliable partner for future-proof logistic process automation. Vanderlande was acquired in 2017 by Toyota Industries Corporation, which will help it to continue its sustainable profitable growth. The two companies have a strong strategic match, and the synergies include cross-selling, product innovations, and research and development.
