Fleet Asset Manager

Liberty Tire Recycling; Sanford (NC); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Liberty Tire Recycling is seeking a Fleet Asset Manager to serve as the primary resource for fleet and lease management. You will work closely with sites to ensure the right equipment is in the right place at the right cost while managing lease obligations, supporting capital planning, improving utilization, and reducing fleet expense.

This role works across corporate and field locations and may require periodic travel to operating sites, lessors, dealers, and vendor locations.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience in fleet or asset management, equipment leasing, transportation, or procurement.
• Experience managing lease or rental agreements and supporting vendor negotiations.
• Strong financial analysis skills, including lease-versus-buy and total cost of ownership modeling.
• Advanced Excel and data analysis skills with the ability to turn findings into practical recommendations.
• Ability to work across sites and corporate functions to drive decisions and follow-through.

Responsibilities

• Manage Liberty's fleet of tractors, trailers, forklifts, loaders, and other mobile equipment, whether owned, leased, or rented.
• Keep track of lease and rental agreements, key dates, rates, buyout opportunities, and return requirements.
• Maintain a fleet planning calendar to ensure lease renewals, returns, extensions, replacements, and buyout decisions happen on time.
• Work with sites to understand equipment needs, review utilization, right-size fleets, and identify excess or underused assets.
• Help determine when equipment should be purchased, leased, retained, redeployed, replaced, or retired.
• Review lease and rental invoices, resolve billing issues, and recover overcharges and credits.
• Manage relationships with leasing companies, rental providers, equipment suppliers, and other fleet vendors.
• Support negotiations involving lease rates, rental agreements, buyouts, equipment returns, and service performance.
• Develop fleet replacement and capital plans based on equipment age, condition, utilization, reliability, operating needs, and cost.
• Track fleet costs, utilization, savings opportunities, vendor performance, and portfolio risks and provide recommendations to leadership.
• Establish fleet governance and controls that reduce idle equipment, unnecessary rentals, lease overruns, and avoidable costs.

Skills

Financial analysis

Advanced Excel

Data analysis

Cross-site collaboration

Vendor negotiations

Lease-versus-buy modeling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, finance, or related field

Tools

Fleet management software

Job description

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Fleet Asset Manager

Regular Full-Time Indirect Sanford, NC, US

About Us:

Liberty Tire Recycling is a high-growth company and the premier provider of tire recycling services in North America with operations throughout the United States and Canada. Liberty Tire annually transforms more than 210 million tires into raw materials for smart, sustainable products that improve our environment and people’s lives. The Company is private equity owned, has approximately 60 sites in the US and Canada, and nearly 4,000 employees. With innovative tools, technologies and processes, Liberty Tire is a revolutionary American conservation enterprise – from coast to coast, and from whole tire to end products. The company’s commitment to finding new and better ways to RECLAIM, RECYCLE and REUSE bridges the sustainability goals of scrap tire generators nationwide with those of local scrap rubber consumers.

Position Summary

This role serves as Liberty's primary resource for fleet asset and lease management. The position works closely with sites to ensure the right equipment is in the right place at the right cost, while managing lease obligations, supporting capital planning, improving utilization, and reducing unnecessary fleet expense.

Primary Responsibilities

• Manage Liberty's fleet of tractors, trailers, forklifts, loaders, and other mobile equipment, whether owned, leased, or rented.
• Keep track of lease and rental agreements, key dates, rates, buyout opportunities, and return requirements.
• Maintain a fleet planning calendar to ensure lease renewals, returns, extensions, replacements, and buyout decisions happen on time.
• Work with sites to understand equipment needs, review utilization, right-size fleets, and identify excess or underused assets.
• Help determine when equipment should be purchased, leased, retained, redeployed, replaced, or retired.
• Review lease and rental invoices, resolve billing issues, and recover overcharges and credits.
• Manage relationships with leasing companies, rental providers, equipment suppliers, and other fleet vendors.
• Support negotiations involving lease rates, rental agreements, buyouts, equipment returns, and service performance.
• Develop fleet replacement and capital plans based on equipment age, condition, utilization, reliability, operating needs, and cost.
• Track fleet costs, utilization, savings opportunities, vendor performance, and portfolio risks and provide recommendations to leadership.
• Establish fleet governance and controls that reduce idle equipment, unnecessary rentals, lease overruns, and avoidable costs.

Qualifications

Required

• Five or more years of experience in fleet or asset management, equipment leasing, transportation, or procurement.
• Experience managing lease or rental agreements and supporting vendor negotiations.
• Strong financial analysis skills, including lease-versus-buy and total cost of ownership modeling.
• Advanced Excel and data analysis skills with the ability to turn findings into practical recommendations.
• Ability to work across sites and corporate functions to drive decisions and follow-through.

Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, finance, transportation, business, or a related field.
• Experience with a multi-site industrial fleet that includes trucks, tractors and trailers.

Core Competencies

• Strong financial, analytical, and commercial judgment.
• Effective negotiator who can balance cost and operating needs.
• Able to turn complex data into clear recommendations and action.
• Strong cross-functional influence, ownership, and follow-through.

Work Environment & Equal Opportunity

This role works across corporate and field locations and may require periodic travel to operating sites, lessors, dealers, and vendor locations. The position operates in a fast-paced environment and works with financial data, contracts, fleet records, and operating teams. Liberty Tire Recycling is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications.

EEO Statement:

Liberty Tire Recycling is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, relationship or association with a protected veteran (spouses or other family members), genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.