Equipment Manager

About the role

GeoStabilization International (GSI), Access Limited, and RoadGuard together form a leading infrastructure solutions platform dedicated to protecting people and strengthening critical infrastructure across North America and New Zealand. GSI is the premier geohazard mitigation firm specializing in emergency slope stabilization, landslide repair, grouting, and micropiles through innovative design-build delivery. Access Limited brings over a century of steep-slope expertise and operates North America’s largest fleet of spider excavators, delivering complex rockfall and geotechnical solutions in the most challenging environments. RoadGuard, founded in 2024, unites industry-leading roadway safety companies providing guardrail, bridge railing, highway signage, fencing, and specialty fabrication services. Across all our businesses, we are driven by innovation, extreme ownership, technical excellence, and a relentless commitment to measurable results that improve safety and infrastructure resilience.

The Equipment Manager owns the strategic performance of GSI's heavy equipment fleet — industrial drills, excavators, concrete pumps, grout plants, and attachments — end to end: composition, acquisition, lifecycle economics, maintenance discipline, and logistics. This is not an inventory-tracking role. It is a capital-allocation and operations role disguised as an equipment job, and it reports into a business that expects the person in this seat to be running a department within 24 months. You'll work in close, high-trust partnership with Project Managers, General Superintendents, the Equipment Service Coordinator, and shop leadership — but you'll be measured on outcomes across the fleet, not on how busy you looked getting there.

Responsibilities

• Fleet Strategy & Capital Discipline: Ensure fleet composition and sizing consistently match forecasted project demand — no scrambling, no idle iron; make buy/lease/rent/dispose decisions backed by real utilization and lifecycle-cost data; track equipment technology and market trends to keep fleet ahead of competitors.
• Maintenance & Uptime: Run a preventative maintenance program across every equipment category to catch problems before they become downtime; actively manage repair spend and recurring failure patterns; uphold safety and compliance standards as non‑negotiable defaults.
• Project Enablement: Provide Project Managers and Superintendents with the right equipment matched to scope and terrain without them having to chase it; build equipment availability, cost, and lead time into bids early; give field teams fast, decisive answers on equipment needs and substitutions.
• Logistics & Execution: Move equipment across active job sites with minimal idle time, minimal hauling cost, and zero avoidable scheduling conflicts; ensure transport readiness — inspected, secured, documented — is the standard every time.
• Compliance & Documentation: Keep DOT, OSHA, and manufacturer compliance records audit‑ready at all times; organize asset history, warranty documentation, and disposal records so anyone can pick them up cold.

Requirements

• 5+ years managing heavy equipment fleets in construction, civil, or industrial environments.
• Deep working knowledge of excavators, drills, concrete pumps, grout plants, and attachments.
• Demonstrated success negotiating acquisitions/disposals and defending asset valuations.
• Fluency with preventative maintenance programs and fleet management software.
• Working knowledge of DOT/OSHA equipment transport and jobsite safety regulations.
• Valid driver's license.
• Results orientation — a track record of measurable fleet or operations outcomes, not just years in a seat.
• Strategic judgment under constraint — ability to make sound buy/lease/dispose calls with imperfect data and real deadlines.
• Resilience and adaptability — comfortable when priorities shift mid‑week because a