Director of Fleet Maintenance - UPNY Market
$160,000–$160,000 year
On-siteChester, New York, United States
Job Summary
Oversee fleet maintenance operations across Jersey City, Bronx, and Brooklyn, ensuring alignment of maintenance metrics, budget management, and preventive maintenance initiatives. Lead asset planning, fuel conservation, and vendor management while managing work schedules, projects, and assignments to maximize asset availability. Drive process improvement initiatives, ensure regulatory compliance with DOT, OSHA, and ANSI standards, and build strong relationships with Operations, Safety, Finance, and external stakeholders. Manage unionized labor and optimize parts inventories to demonstrate warranty cost savings. Align with annual fleet budget plans to ensure lowest total cost of ownership.
Required Qualifications
- High School diploma
- 7+ years of related experience
- Track record on strategic fleet initiatives
- Knowledge of OSHA regulations
- Knowledge of environmental requirements
- Ability to manage and interface with unionized labor
- Ability to track and control parts inventories
- Ability to manage vendors
- Ability to manage suppliers
- Ability to demonstrate warranty cost savings
- Ability to properly prioritize work schedules
- Ability to implement projects
- Ability to manage assignments
- Ability to manage the financial aspects of a fleet maintenance operation
- Ability to manage the accounting aspects of a fleet maintenance operation
- Effective communication with all levels of staff
- Strong written communication skills
- Strong verbal communication skills
- Technical competence with light/medium/heavy duty vehicle repair
- Technical competence with preventive maintenance
- Technical experience with heavy duty truck maintenance
- Solid knowledge of managing PM schedules
- Knowledge of directing PM schedules
- Knowledge of planning and scheduling
- Knowledge of labor management
- Experience with Microsoft Suite
- Experience with fleet software platforms
- Strong analytical skills
- High degree of multi-tasking skills
- Ability to oversee and manage a comprehensive asset utilization plan
- Ability to align with Operations and Financial Management on an annual fleet budget plan
- Ability to oversee tactical and strategic initiatives
- Ability to ensure lowest TCO
- Ability to oversee and lead asset planning
- Ability to oversee fuel conservation
- Ability to oversee vendor management
- Ability to oversee vehicle mechanical safety
- Ability to oversee productivity
- Ability to oversee environmental management for the fleet
- Ability to lead process improvement initiatives
- Ability to oversee daily management of fleet operations processes
- Ability to ensure contingency policies are in place
- Ability to ensure systems are in place to prevent business disruption
- Ability to ensure practices are in place to eliminate business disruption
- Responsibility for and management of all regulatory compliance
- Knowledge of DOT regulations
- Knowledge of ANSI regulations
- Ability to build and sustain strong business relationships with Operations
- Ability to build and sustain strong business relationships with Safety
- Ability to build and sustain strong business relationships with Finance
- Ability to build and sustain strong business relationships with relevant internal stakeholders
- Ability to build and sustain strong business relationships with relevant external stakeholders
- Self-starter
- Working financial knowledge
- Process oriented
- Team Builder
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree
- 5+ years' of related experience
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