About This Role
Managing the organization's fleet operations across utility power, construction, and vegetation business lines is the core of this job. This includes ensuring all fleet assets are compliant, properly maintained, and operationally ready, and suits a manager accountable for preventative maintenance programs, regulatory compliance, telematics performance, fuel management, capital planning, and lifecycle management.
Responsibilities
- Provide outstanding customer service and maintain a professional environment
- Ensure full compliance with DOT, FMCSA, EPA, and OSHA regulations
- Maintain audit readiness and ensure 100% completion of annual inspections and preventative maintenance requirements
- Perform and oversee equipment check-in and check-out inspections
- Conduct quarterly field equipment safety inspections
- Ensure all fleet assets are compliant, properly maintained, and operational
- Conduct root cause analysis on repeat equipment failures to eliminate preventable downtime
- Maintain a minimum of 98% telematics reporting uptime across all assets
- Conduct weekly telematics health reviews and address non-reporting units immediately
- Monitor fuel card activity weekly, identify usage anomalies, track MPG trends, and report cost per mile and cost per operating hour
- Escalate suspected misuse and bring forward recommendations to Operations regarding idling costs and fuel spend
- Review asset utilization weekly
- Identify and reallocate underutilized assets, prevent equipment hoarding, and ensure alignment with enterprise demand
- Manage preventive and predictive maintenance programs to maximize vehicle life and minimize downtime
- Track repairs, warranty claims, and parts inventory
- Support lifecycle replacement schedules based on total cost of ownership, utilization rates, depreciation curves, and repair costs
- Execute remarketing and disposal strategies to maximize residual value
- Prepare formal capital request business cases outlining revenue impact, contract validation, utilization forecasts, ROI analysis, payback period, cost per operating hour comparisons, and alternative analysis
- Maintain a rolling 24-month equipment forecast aligned with business unit growth projections
- Update dashboards and reports in Excel and Power BI, using pivot tables, to highlight fleet performance trends, high-cost units, and underutilized assets
- Present findings and recommendations to operations and finance leadership
- Serve as primary liaison with fleet vendors on warranties and service agreements
- Deploy and manage telematics systems
- Leverage Microsoft 365 for analytics and fleet performance reporting
