Fleet Reliability Engineer

Highland Electric Fleets; United States; Remote; USD 125,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Bonus program

Health, Vision, and Dental insurance

Paid time off

401(k) match

Job summary

Highland Electric Fleets is seeking a Fleet Reliability Engineer in the United States to ensure uptime and performance across our electric school bus and fleet operations. You will become the SME for multiple vehicle OEM platforms, telemetry systems, and our internal tools, driving rapid issue resolution and continuous improvement across the organization.

The role requires 5+ years in fleet maintenance, EV diagnostics, and strong communication.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of fleet maintenance experience including EV diagnostics.
• Strong CAN logging/analysis, telemetry technologies, and OEM tooling knowledge.
• Familiar with ATA and VMRS codes; ASE Master certification preferred.
• Proficient in MS Office and Google Workspace; comfortable with AI tools.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, and ability to work cross-functionally.

Responsibilities

• Serve as SME across Highland’s vehicle portfolio and telemetry systems.
• Collaborate with Reliability, Commissioning and QA to drive quality improvements.
• Investigate and resolve systemic issues via on-site or remote diagnostics.
• Feed learnings into tickets, knowledge bases and training platforms.
• Coordinate with OEMs for campaigns and updates and share learnings.
• Document knowledge, resolutions, and SOPs for internal teams.
• Support vehicle equipment selection and specifications with internal teams.
• Assist training teams with vehicle tech knowledge.
• Contribute to RM&D platform development and monitoring dashboards.
• Provide remote support to field technicians nationwide.
• Participate in R&D testing of hardware/software components.
• Inform product strategies and OEM improvements through cross-functional work.
• Lead a small team of vehicle engineers.
• Promote collaborative environment and continuous improvement across departments.

Skills

Fleet maintenance

EV diagnostics

Communication

Relationship management

Decision making

Education

ASE Master Technician Certification (A/S/H/T)

Tools

CAN logging

CAN analysis

Vehicle telemetry

OEM tooling

ATA/VMRS codes

MS Office

Google Workspace

AI tools

Job description

About Us

Highland Electric Fleets’ mission is to make electric fleets accessible and affordable for all, enabling communities to realize the benefits of cleaner, quieter and healthier fleets. Highland is North America’s leading provider of Electrification-as-a-Service (EaaS). Founded in 2019, Highland partners with school districts, municipalities, and fleet operators to make the transition to electric fleets simple and affordable.

Highland proudly serves as the Official Electric School Bus Provider of the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Team USA. From pioneering vehicle-to-grid technology to managing some of the nation’s largest electric school bus fleets, Highland delivers reliable, cost-effective solutions that support local communities and drive the future of transportation.

Summary:

As a Fleet Reliability Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the uptime, reliability, and performance of Highland’s electric vehicle (EV) fleet. You will become a subject matter expert in Highland’s vehicle technology stack-spanning across all vehicle OEMs we deploy, telemetry platforms, Highland’s internal operations platforms, and our ticketing and enterprise asset management systems. Your work will directly support operational excellence, rapid issue resolution, and continuous collaboration and improvement across the organization by identifying remote paths to resolution, issue resolution, relationship building, and assisting our field services team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as a subject matter expert across Highland’s vehicle portfolio, inclusive of vehicle OEM digital platforms, vehicle OEM technician tooling (software and hardware), first and third party vehicle telemetry systems, and vehicle interoperability.
• Work closely with our Charge Reliability Engineering Manager and Commissioning and Quality teams to address any vehicle-side issues, or vice-versa. Drive quality improvements across our vehicle portfolio and vehicle processes.
• Investigate and resolve systemic technical issues raised by Customer Success, Technical Operations, and/or Field Service teams through on-site and/or remote diagnostics and support.
• Upon resolution of an issue, ensure that all data and learnings are fed into our tickets, workorders, and internal Knowledgebase and Training platforms for future optimization.
• Collaborate with vehicle OEM partners to troubleshoot open issues, coordinate hardware/software fixes/updates as part of OEM-led or internally-created campaigns
• Document technical knowledge, resolutions, and standard operating procedures in internal playbooks to promote knowledge sharing and issue prevention.
• Work with internal departments and OEMs on vehicle equipment selection and specifications
• Support internal and external training teams with vehicle technical knowledge
• Support the development and refinement of our proactive Remote Monitoring & Diagnostics (RM&D) platform
• Monitor and validate internal dashboards and analytics platforms to ensure accurate, actionable data on fleet performance
• Provide remote support to field technicians and reliability managers across the country
• Participate in R&D testing efforts to validate new hardware/software components and contribute insights to ongoing technology improvements.
• Work cross-functionally with Engineering, Support, and Success teams to ensure that reliability insights inform broader operational and product strategies, and drive OEM improvements.
• Lead a small team of vehicle engineers as we scale
• Promote a collaborative, open-minded work environment and actively contribute to continuous improvement across departments.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 Years + of experience in fleet maintenance (combination of heavy, medium, and light duty vehicle maintenance and repair) with understanding of electric vehicle diagnostics and troubleshooting
• Strong background and comfort with vehicle CAN logging and CAN analysis, vehicle telemetry technologies, and OEM vehicle tooling
• Knowledge of ATA and VMRS codes.
• Prefer Master ASE Technician Certification in one of the following series; A, S, H, or T.
• Familiarity with electric vehicles and EVSE maintenance and repair preferred, but not required
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel), Google Workspace required.
• Comfort with using AI tools and platforms a must, for data analysis and custom tool creation
• Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing
• Exercise considerable skill, judgment, and discretion in establishing and maintaining good working relationships with internal and external customers as well as many company departments
• Demonstrated ability to make sound technical decisions, and execute on them.

$125,000 - $140,000 a year

What You Can Expect from Highland:

• Competitive base salary and performance-based bonus program
• A supportive, highly collaborative, team-oriented environment
• Ability to work with bright, innovative, and forward-thinking colleagues
• Health, Vision, and Dental coverage for employees & their dependents
• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401(k) program and company match

Highland Electric Fleets provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Highland Electric Fleets complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.