Assets Manager

About the role

The Assets Manager owns the day-to-day operations and execution of KE’s tools, equipment, fleet, and consumable inventory programs. This role ensures assets are available, ready, safe, tracked, and accurately cost-recovered to support field execution, operating within ISCM-defined standards. The Assets Manager partners closely with Field Operations, Facilities, Procurement, Safety, and Finance to minimize downtime, improve accountability, and deliver reliable asset support to jobsites.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily operations for tools and equipment, including receiving, tagging, storage, checkout/return, maintenance, repair, replacement, and retirement.
• Ensure field teams have timely access to required tools and equipment to support productivity.
• Execute readiness standards ("ready-to-issue"), inspection requirements, and repair turnaround expectations.
• Oversee day-to-day coordination with third-party rental vendors to ensure availability and cost control.
• Maintain tool accountability and take corrective action to reduce loss and shrink.
• Oversee daily inventory operations for parts and consumables, including bin management, min/max levels, and replenishment.
• Execute cycle counts and audits to maintain accuracy and reduce emergency purchases.
• Support Operations with timely ordering and jobsite delivery.
• Own daily execution of equipment billing in Viewpoint Spectrum, including utilization capture, approvals, and reconciliation.
• Ensure billing is timely and accurate so job costs reflect actual asset usage.
• Resolve billing issues in partnership with PMs, field leadership, and Accounting.
• Manage daily use and compliance of tool tracking systems (Hilti and future solutions).
• Ensure users are trained, data is accurate, and system standards are followed.
• Produce routine operational reports on availability, utilization, repair turnaround, shrink, and billing performance.
• Oversee daily fleet operations, including maintenance coordination, registrations, lifecycle tracking, and uptime.
• Execute the fleet managed-service transition (Emkay), including onboarding and vendor coordination.
• Track incidents and claims and partner with Safety on corrective actions.
• Lead the Assets team’s day-to-day workload, priorities, and performance.
• Partner with Facilities on yard layout, storage standards, and shipping/receiving flow.
• Serve as the primary operational point of contact for field teams regarding asset availability and issues.
• Maintain a strong internal-customer mindset while enforcing standards and accountability.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years in assets/equipment, fleet, tool crib, equipment rental, warehouse/inventory, or construction operations; with 2 years in a leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience managing tooling, fleet, and/or heavy equipment programs with high utilization and strong accountability.
• Strong working knowledge of: tool/equipment lifecycle management, inventory controls, preventive maintenance, vendor/rental management, and job-cost impacts/cost recovery.
• Experience working with ERP systems; Viewpoint Spectrum experience is strongly preferred (or closely related construction ERP + strong ability to learn quickly).
• High accountability, strong communication, and the ability to influence field teams without creating red tape.
• Bonus points for:
• Background in an equipment rental company or a construction equipment environment (tool rental, heavy equipment, fleet, or branch operations).
• Experience implementing tool/equipment tracking solutions (barcode/RFID/mobile scanning) and integrating operational systems with ERP/reporting.
• Leverage of a lean/continuous improvement mindset (5s, standard work, Kaizen).
• Electrical contractor/mechanical contractor/trades environment experience.
• Fleet certifications or training (NAFA/CAFM or similar), safety program experience, DOT/driver compliance familiarity (as applicable).