Port of Santander announces a position for Maintenance and Navigation Supervisor.

The Port Authority of Santander has announced a competitive examination process to fill, as permanent staff, one position of Maintenance and Navigation Aid Systems Manager, with annual basic remuneration of 25,913.54 euros. The rules, signed by the director Santiago N. Díaz Fraile, were published on 13 August 2026 in the Official Gazette of Cantabria (reference CVE-2026-6442), and applicants will have 20 business days to submit the application, with the month of August considered non-working.

The call is part of the 2024 Public Employment Offer, approved by Royal Decree 656/2024, of 2 July, and is conducted in accordance with the III Collective Agreement of State Ports and Port Authorities and the Permanent Recruitment Procedure of the State-Owned Port System, approved by Resolution of the Directorate-General for Civil Service of 26 April 2023. The position corresponds to Group II, Band II, Level 6 of the agreement and adds a quality and availability allowance of 1,095.59 euros per year. The person ranked first will take up the post with immediate effect.

A technical position on the port staff

The manager will collaborate in the coordination and monitoring of the entity’s conservation works and preventive, corrective and predictive maintenance. Their functions include:

• Supervise electrical, mechanical and general maintenance work on infrastructures, mechanical means and equipment.
• Control the installation and maintenance of the entity’s networks: electrical, water, radiocommunications, security and telephony.
• Coordinate the navigation aid systems service, its inspection programmes and its maintenance.
• Organise the materials warehouse and control the billing of supplies.

To participate, applicants must hold a Higher-Level Vocational Training qualification, a diploma or a degree related to the technical competences of the position, a type B driving licence and, in the case of applicants with disabilities, a recognised degree of disability equal to or greater than 33 %.

Twenty business days, with August non-working

Applications, using the form in Annex III, shall be addressed to the director of the Port Authority of Santander and may be submitted through the electronic registry, at the port’s General Registry, or through the channels provided for in Article 16 of Law 39/2015. The deadline will be 20 business days from the day following publication in the Official Gazette of Cantabria; as August is considered non-working, the count will resume on 1 September. The provisional list of admitted and excluded applicants will be published on the website www.puertosantander.com within a maximum period of one month, and those who are excluded will have 10 business days to remedy defects or submit allegations.

Examination, merit assessment and medical examination

The selection process, which may not exceed nine months, combines three phases:

• Competitive examination phase, up to 80 points: theoretical-regulatory test (10 points), English (pass/fail), psychotechnical test (10), theoretical-practical test (30), generic competencies test (10) and personal interview (20).
• Merit-based assessment phase, up to 20 points: educational merits (19), which award 17 points for a higher-level vocational training cycle in electronic maintenance, electrotechnical and automated systems, or industrial automation and robotics, and 2 points for English at level B1 or higher; and professional merits (1 point).
• Medical examination, graded as fit or unfit.

The indicative calendar sets the competitive examination phase for November 2026, the merit-based assessment phase for December 2026 and the medical examination for January 2027, and the first exercise must be held within a maximum of three months from publication. The order of appearance of applicants will begin with the surname starting with the letter “B”.

Board and resolution

The board, appointed by resolution of 7 August 2026, will be chaired by Alberto Rodríguez Solórzano, with Susana García Sanz as secretary and the members Paula Torre García-Barredo, Yolanda Luengo García and Miguel Ángel San Emeterio, along with the corresponding alternates. Those who pass but do not obtain a post will join a 24-month job pool for temporary contracts, and the selected person must complete a three-month probationary period.

The announcement opens a stable public employment pathway in the state port system for technical maintenance profiles, in a key port for Cantabria’s economy. With the tests scheduled for autumn, the post offers an annual salary of €25,913.54 plus the quality and working hours supplement, and leaves the door open to the port’s job pool for those who pass without obtaining the post.

Source: Official Gazette of Cantabria, No. 155, 13 August 2026, section 2.2 (Courses, examinations and competitions), p. 37046 (official reference: CVE-2026-6442).