Fleet Manager

PowerGrid Services; Garner (NC); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

PowerGrid Services seeks a Fleet Manager to oversee the company’s fleet assets, ensuring safety, compliance, and cost efficiency while supporting enterprise growth. The role focuses on regulatory compliance, maintenance planning, utilization optimization, and lifecycle management to maximize uptime and asset value across the fleet.

Candidates will drive telematics performance, fuel spend analytics, and capital procurement analysis, delivering data-driven recommendations to reduce downtime and

Responsibilities

• Regulatory Compliance – DOT / FMCSA
• Check in inspections and check out inspections for all equipment
• Perform Quarterly Field Equipment Safety inspections
• Equipment Uptime & Operational Readiness
• Fleet Managers must maintain a minimum of 98% telematics reporting uptime across all assets
• Fuel Card Oversight & Spend Analytics
• Bringing forward recommendations to Operations to help with idling costs and misuse for fuel spend
• Fleet Managers must review utilization weekly, identify underutilized assets, prevent equipment hoarding and ensure alignment with enterprise demand
• Lifecycle & Replacement Management
• Capital Request Business Case Requirements
• Forecasting & Forward Planning

Job description

The Fleet Manager is responsible for the strategic oversight, compliance, maintenance, utilization, and financial performance of the company's fleet assets. This role ensures all equipment remains safe, compliant, operational, and cost-effective while supporting business unit objectives and enterprise growth plans. The Fleet Manager drives regulatory compliance, fleet reliability, telematics performance, fuel management, asset lifecycle planning, capital procurement analysis, and operational standardization. Success in this role is measured through equipment uptime, DOT/FMCSA compliance, preventative maintenance execution, utilization performance, cost control, and long-term fleet planning.

• Regulatory Compliance – DOT / FMCSA
• Fleet Managers are responsible for monitoring and enforcing all DOT and FMCSA requirements, including annual inspections, preventative maintenance compliance, audit readiness, and immediate escalation of violations.
• Check in inspections and check out inspections for all equipment.
• Perform Quarterly Field Equipment Safety inspections.
• Equipment Uptime & Operational Readiness
• Fleet Managers are accountable for ensuring all equipment is compliant, properly maintained, and operational. Preventable downtime impacting business operations constitutes a fleet performance failure. Root cause analysis must be conducted on repeat failures.
• Telematics Performance & Data Integrity
• Fleet Managers must maintain a minimum of 98% telematics reporting uptime across all assets. Non-reporting units must be addressed immediately. Weekly telematics health reviews are mandatory.
• Fuel Card Oversight & Spend Analytics
• Fleet Managers are responsible for monitoring fuel card activity weekly, identifying anomalies, tracking MPG trends, reporting cost per mile and cost per operating hour, and escalating suspected misuse.
• Bringing forward recommendations to Operations to help them with idling costs and misuse for fuel spend.
• Fleet Managers must review utilization weekly, identify underutilized assets, prevent equipment hoarding and ensure alignment with enterprise demand.
• Lifecycle & Replacement Management
• Fleet Managers are responsible for enforcing lifecycle schedules, monitoring repair costs relative to asset value and reducing over-age equipment exposure.
• Capital Request Business Case Requirements
• All new equipment requests must include a formal business case outlining revenue impact, contract validation, utilization forecast, ROI analysis, payback period, cost per operating hour comparison, and alternative analysis (redeployment versus new acquisition).
• Requests lacking financial rigor will not proceed.
• Forecasting & Forward Planning
• Fleet Managers must maintain a rolling 24 month equipment forecast aligned with business unit growth projections. Unplanned capital requests without documented justification are not acceptable.