Manager, Fleet

Application deadline: 4/25/2025 or until filled.

The Fleet Manager is responsible for overseeing the acquisition, maintenance, and operation of a company's vehicle fleet. This role ensures the safe, efficient, and cost-effective use of all fleet assets while maintaining compliance with industry regulations. The Fleet Manager develops strategies to optimize fleet performance, manage budgets, and improve operational efficiency.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

• The Fleet Manager is responsible for overseeing total fleet operations across multiple states, ensuring that all vehicles and equipment remain operational, cost-effective, and compliant with safety and regulatory standards
• This leadership role requires strategic oversight of maintenance operations, budgeting, and efficiency improvements, while also assisting implementing company-wide initiatives across multiple locations
• The Fleet Manager will drive operational excellence through strong leadership, cost management, and continuous improvement strategies
• Oversee fleet maintenance and operations across multiple locations, ensuring uptime, efficiency, and compliance
• Develop and implement company-wide initiatives across all sites, standardizing best practices and improving fleet performance
• Drive continuous improvement strategies (e.g., 5S methodology, lean maintenance practices) to enhance efficiency and cost savings
• Ensure all fleet assets comply with DOT, FMCSA, and OSHA regulations, maintaining an audit-ready status at all times
• Identify cost-saving opportunities while maintaining fleet reliability and safety standards
• Negotiate and oversee third-party maintenance provider contracts, ensuring service level agreements are met at the best value
• Track and analyze fleet performance metrics, optimizing vehicle lifecycle management and cost efficiency
• Ensure all fleet locations adhere to federal, state, and company regulations, reducing risk and liability
• Work closely with internal stakeholders to align fleet operations with overall business objectives
• Performs ad hoc analysis in support of finance and operations as needed.

Job Requirement

• 5+ years of fleet experience, with at least 2 years of multiple site operations
• Proven experience managing/operating budgets, including cost control and financial forecasting
• Strong knowledge of fleet maintenance, preventive maintenance programs, and vehicle lifecycle management, accident management, and license and title.
• Experience implementing company-wide initiatives across multiple locations
• Familiarity with DOT, FMCSA, OSHA, and other fleet regulatory compliance requirements
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to work with high-performing teams across multiple sites
• Experience negotiating vendor contracts and managing third-party service providers
• Proficiency in fleet management software and data-driven decision-making
• This is a high-impact leadership role that requires a strategic mindset, operational expertise, and financial acumen

Working Conditions

• Employee remains in the sitting position for prolonged hours. Employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, use hands to handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• Working conditions may include being in an open (shared) cubicle/workspace area.

Disclaimer

This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive statement of every duty and responsibility which will ever be required of an employee in this position, however, the employee will be held responsible for all duties assigned.

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