Fleet Maintenance Manager

About This Role

This role involves planning, organizing, and supervising the division's maintenance staff and functions for fleet and equipment support. The manager ensures overall fleet condition, equipment reliability, safety, and cost-effective performance through effective maintenance processes.

Responsibilities

• Manage departmental hiring, training, coaching, performance management, discipline, scheduling of work assignments, and overtime authorization.
• Maintain an ongoing preventive/corrective maintenance program, setting standards for service excellence.
• Review status reports including road calls, breakdowns, parts inventory, repairs, and safety performance.
• Provide hands-on maintenance assistance as needed.
• Educate drivers on responsibilities related to DVIRs, operation of fleet vehicles, and basic CDL requirements.
• Assure all maintenance-related data is available for input in the vehicle maintenance system.
• Monitor Dossier efficiencies including inventory control, goals for improved performance, monitoring, measuring and reporting.
• Assist in purchasing new vehicles, equipment, tools and containers.
• Establish maintenance related training sessions to improve overall fleet condition and operational knowledge.
• Administer and monitor regional adherence to federal and state programs, overseeing maintenance according to EPA and other mandatory regulations.
• Verify implementation of required DOT, OSHA, EPA regulations and monitor conformance.
• Ensure efficient utilization, vehicle maintenance quality, and transportation to ready-lines.
• Perform fleet inventory/condition reporting, including out of service listing, matched to asset list.
• Manage divisional maintenance budgets.
• Implement and monitor all fleet maintenance activities (e.g. Pre/Post pre-trip, safety lane, warranty recovery, tire standards, oil/lubricants, major component failure, and all new initiatives).
• Facilitate movement of equipment between divisions ensuring proper inspections and ready condition.
• Evaluate body damage estimates related to maintenance and fleet functions, manage cost controls and enhance vendor service.
• Evaluate equipment performance and recommend modifications and/or alternate vendors based on maintenance/costing information.
• Analyze service issues related to fleet maintenance, perform root cause analysis, recommend remediation methodologies and escalate as needed.
• Support efforts to create useful metrics and performance diagnostic reporting tools.

Qualifications

• Experienced Fleet Maintenance Manager

Skills

* Required skills