Fleet Manager

Fleet Manager

The Fleet Manager is responsible to lead and manage the procurement, scheduling, tracking, contracting, internal billing, and financial analysis of all owned, rented, or leased equipment assets. Lead the Fleet Team in the development and implementation of strategies, policies, and SOPs to manage the fleet efficiently and support projects. This position will have up to 25% travel to regional office locations.

Responsibilities:

• Lead Fleet management staff in procurement, scheduling, and management of internal and external equipment assets to support project teams.
• Write and implement policies and SOPs to provide structured processes for fleet management.
• Promote and comply with all Company safety policies and procedures.
• Provide financial analysis on equipment fleet and recommend courses of action to Director of Equipment Operations on CapEx purchases and disposals.
• Establish relationships and negotiate with vendors to rent, lease, or purchase equipment assets based on schedule and needs analysis.
• Communicate with project teams to forecast needs and schedule internal and rental assets to satisfy requests while maximizing utilization of the fleet and meeting the schedule and budget of projects.
• Review and approve invoices, purchase orders, and quotes related to equipment rental and purchase.
• Negotiate terms of Purchase, Lease, or Rental of equipment assets and enter into agreements and POs with vendors using established Wanzek procurement processes and procedures.
• Collect data into a management system from various sources for purposes of using the data collected to evaluate and make recommendations to maintain equipment fleet health and availability.
• Supervise the implementation and use of telematics system and collect data from the fleet to assign, monitor, bill projects, and create usage reports for all equipment.
• Analyze and recommend adjustments to internal fleet rental and T&M rates and provide timely assistance to the estimating teams.
• Manage the Annual CapEx budget for the Equipment Department.
• Lead and manage subordinates to ensure efficient and accurate management of, billing, accounting, scheduling, tracking, and return of equipment fleet.

Qualifications:

• Associates degree preferred and/or combination of education and experience.
• 5+ years relevant experience; supervisory experience preferred.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, Excel, Primavera, Viewpoint, and Construction Software techniques, estimating, and construction management.
• Read, analyze, and interpret specifications, professional journals, technical procedures, contracts, or governmental regulations.
• Write reports, business correspondence, and document department activities.
• Effectively present information and respond to questions from project managers, superintendents, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Effectively present information to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors.
• Calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume; ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
• Solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables.
• Interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Must be capable of up to 50% travel by automobile (as driver and passenger), commercial airlines, rental vehicles, and public transportation and be able to lodge in public facilities.