Fleet Manager - West Ballina

Stralis Energy; Ballina Shire; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Stralis Energy in West Ballina is seeking an experienced Fleet Manager to own and optimise our vehicle and equipment fleet on-site. The role includes expanding our fleet hire services to external clients and ensuring compliance, maintenance, and operational readiness.

You will drive revenue by monetising under-utilised assets while coordinating maintenance, registrations, insurance, and safety across a mixed fleet used in construction, energy, and related sectors.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing a mixed fleet of vehicles and equipment.
• Experience with fleet maintenance scheduling and cost control.
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to price external hire opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Oversee fleet operations across vehicles and equipment.
• Manage acquisition, registration, servicing, and disposal.
• Develop external fleet hire arrangements and pricing.
• Monitor fleet costs and utilization.
• Ensure compliance with registrations, insurance and safety.
• Maintain accurate fleet records and reporting.

Skills

Fleet management

Compliance

Maintenance scheduling

Commercial awareness

Data reporting

Tools

Fleet management software

Job description

Stralis Energy. Full-time, on-site West Ballina

Stralis Energy operates across Electrical Works, Solar Farms, and Cranes and Haulage. We’re looking for an experienced Fleet Manager to take end to end ownership of our vehicle and equipment fleet. This role will also be responsible for developing our fleet hire service to external clients.

About the role

You’ll be responsible for keeping our fleet compliant, well maintained and operational. This role will require identifying and managing opportunities to generate income by hiring out any under‑utilised vehicles, plant and equipment.

Key responsibilities include

Fleet operations

Managing acquisition, registration, servicing, maintenance scheduling and disposal of vehicles, plant and equipment across all business arms.

Compliance and safety Ensuring registrations, inspections, insurance and safety requirements are met across the fleet.

Utilisation and scheduling Tracking fleet usage and availability to identify spare capacity across projects.

Commercial hire Developing and managing external hire arrangements - including pricing, contracts and client relationships. Generating income from fleet assets not in active use.

Reporting Monitoring fleet costs, utilisation rates, and hire revenue Reporting on performance to management.

Systems Maintaining accurate fleet records and working with our existing fleet and project systems.

About you

We’re after someone with proven experience managing a mixed fleet of vehicles and equipment, ideally within construction, energy, or a related industry. Experience commercialising fleet assets through external hire, or a strong understanding of the plant and equipment hire market, will be highly regarded. You’ll be commercially minded, organised, and comfortable managing both the operational and revenue generating sides of the role.

Experience with fleet management systems is advantageous but not necessary.

Full training will be provided for the right candidate.