Automotive Fleet Supervisor
About the role
This position maintains a safe, reliable, and cost-efficient fleet of vehicles, both ground support equipment and street vehicles. The role ensures proper use and care of physical assets, helps prevent equipment failures, controls costs, manages external vendor relationships, works closely with auto mechanics and internal customers, and performs regular equipment and facility audits. The position monitors fleet vehicle equipment maintenance and maintains automotive cost effectiveness by identifying trends, monitoring key expense indices, and implementing cost-saving strategies. This role also supervises mechanics within the department.
Responsibilities
- Schedules preventative maintenance inspections and reviews the results, monitors repairs, and performs vehicle audits to ensure mechanics adhere to safety, regulatory and appearance standards.
- Analyzes equipment or vehicle system failures to determine root causes and resolve problems, and plans and coordinates equipment repairs with internal and external groups.
- Ensures adequate inventory levels (e.g., parts, tires, etc.) to support business processes.
- Adheres to purchasing limits, expense approval procedures, and equipment disposal guidelines to remain within cost plan.
- Reviews and approves automotive expenses.
- Determines employee training needs to produce continuous development plans.
- Conducts performance evaluations and resolves individual and group performance issues.
Qualifications
- Automotive background preferred.
- Knowledge of mechanical fundamentals, maintenance, diagnosis, and repair to vehicle or aircraft fleet operation.
- Ability to manage equipment repair and oversee the correction of problems with tools, machinery, and other standard technical equipment.
- Ability to manage inspections, physical assets, and working relationships with vendors.
Must be currently located in the same geographic location as the job or willing to relocate yourself. Must report to facility. May be located in one of 2 locations:
- 363 Coss Rd, Dartmouth, MA 02747
- 131 Ansel Hallet Rd, West Yarmouth, MA 02673
Job Level: Supervisor
Work Schedule: Varies according to operational needs