Fleet Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Position Summary

The Fleet Manager owns the performance, cost, and compliance of the company's fleet across all regions. This role is responsible for maximizing fleet uptime, reducing total cost of ownership, and ensuring all equipment meets safety and regulatory standards. The Fleet Manager drives standard processes, vendor performance, and system adoption to ensure the right assets are in place to support safe, reliable, and efficient field operations.

Core Duties / Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain appropriate processes and procedures for fleet maintenance and repairs, tracking of trucks in and out of service, fleet rotation, fleet replacement, etc.
• Coordinate all equipment acquisitions and divestments
• Coordinate fleet based on needs of the areas/regions
• Ensure compliance with safety and other regulatory agencies
• Responsible for inventory management of equipment and fleet for all regions
• Perform regular field support duties, onsite field visits, due diligence, and audits
• Manage all vehicle specifications within compliance regulations
• Maintain and approve local shop/vendor for repairs and maintenance
• Management of the fleet resource planning and optimization
• Optimization of Fleetio within company locations, develop, implement new processes and procedures as necessary to ensure compliance
• Assist with budgets and reporting on fleet maintenance costs
• Perform other duties as assigned
• Identify underutilized assets and execute redeployment, or replacement plans based on cost and reliability data from vendors/Fleetio.
• Lead fleet resource planning by aligning equipment availability with regional delivery and service needs, especially during peak demand periods.

Position Qualifications

• Experience/Education
• Required Education: Bachelors/undergraduate degree preferred in business, logistics, finance, or another relevant field
• Required Work Experience:
• 3-5 years of relevant work experience preferred
• Experience in fleet management, maintenance or logistics preferred
• Required Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
• Microsoft Applications: Advanced functionality in Word, Excel and Outlook
• Additional Technology: Good communication skills and computer literacy
• Travel: Moderate travel required to maintain field support
• Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills required
• Additional Requirements:
• Ability to maintain stability under pressure and be flexible and willing to modify plans and behavior when necessary
• Effectively collaborate with leadership and employees to establish goals and
  standards
• Ability to always work with respect and cooperation with fellow employees and
  customers.
• Maintain professionalism, integrity, security, image and confidentiality of
  information and records as required by the position.
• Attend all training and/or in-services.
• Complete all PERC and other online training in a timely manner.
• Strong working knowledge of commercial fleet operations, maintenance practices, and total cost of ownership in a multi-location environment
• Demonstrated ability to manage and improve fleet performance using data, including
  uptime, maintenance cost, and asset utilization
• Experience managing vendor relationships, including negotiating pricing, setting expectations, and holding vendors accountable for performance
• Commitment to safety and compliance, with the ability to reinforce standards and
  partner with HSE on continuous improvement
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, with strong Excel capability and ability to work within fleet management systems such as Fleetio

Physical Working Requirements:

The work environment characteristics described are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be available to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is:

• Required to work in both office and field environments, including regular travel to field locations, bulk plants, and repair facilities
• Prolonged sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to position, transport, lift and/or move up to 15 pounds at a time.
• Stand, walk, move across large areas in an office environment or at a location.
• Communicate with and exchange information verbally and in writing.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Required to communicate clearly both verbally and in writing with field employees, vendors, and leadership.
• Expected to operate a motor vehicle and maintain a valid driver's license.

Scope

Direct Reports: 0
Total Organization Employees: ~ 900
Total Organization States: 21
Total Organization Regions/Markets: 4

This job description is not intended to describe in detail the multitude of tasks that may be assigned, but rather to provide the employee with a general sense of the responsibilities and expectations of his/her position. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of qualifications, skills, efforts, duties, responsibilities or working conditions associated with the position.
As the nature of business demands change so, too, may the essential functions of this position.

DCC Propane is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran
status, military status or disability status.