Maintenance Manager - Hattiesburg

Waste Pro USA Inc.; Hattiesburg (MS); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Waste Pro USA Inc. seeks a Maintenance Manager to lead the division's maintenance staff, ensuring vehicle reliability, safety, and cost-effective fleet performance. You will oversee preventive maintenance, data systems, and compliance programs while partnering with regional teams to optimize operations.

The role includes hiring, training, and coaching staff, evaluating performance, and coordinating with safety and operations to uphold standards. Strong leadership is essential.

Qualifications

• Manages departmental hiring, training, coaching, performance management, scheduling of work assignments, and overtime authorization.
• Maintains an ongoing preventive/corrective maintenance program and sets the standard for service excellence.
• Reviews status reports including road calls, breakdowns, parts inventory, repairs, and safety performance.
• Provides hands-on maintenance assistance as needed.
• Education of driver responsibilities as it relates to DVIRs, operation of fleet vehicles, and basic CDL requirements.
• Ensures maintenance data is available for input in the vehicle maintenance system.
• Monitors fleet efficiency, inventory control, and performance metrics.
• Assists in purchasing of new vehicles, equipment, tools and containers.
• Establishes maintenance training sessions to improve fleet condition and knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Oversee maintenance team leadership, planning and scheduling.
• Direct preventive and corrective maintenance across the division.
• Coordinate adherence to DOT, OSHA, EPA regulations and safety programs.
• Monitorvehicle maintenance data and reporting systems.
• Manage fleet cost controls and vendor/service evaluations.
• Ensure ready-lines and efficient vehicle utilization.

Job description

The Maintenance Manager plans, organizes and supervises the Division's maintenance staff and functions. This management position holds responsible for overall fleet/equipment support and associated maintenance processes that include inspection, repair, pre/post servicing, vehicle distribution, quality assurance and disposal at the Division level. This manager will work in partnership with the Regional Maintenance Manager and Operations teams to ensure overall fleet condition, equipment reliability, safety and cost effective fleet performance.

JOB FUNCTIONS

• Manages departmental hiring, training, coaching, performance management, discipline, scheduling of work assignments, and overtime authorization.
• Maintains an ongoing preventive/corrective maintenance program which sets the standard for service excellence.
• Reviews status reports including road calls, breakdowns, parts inventory, repairs, and safety performance.
• Provides hands-on maintenance assistance as needed.
• Education of driver responsibilities as it relates to DVIR's, operation of fleet vehicles, and basic CDL requirements.
• Assures all maintenance-related data is available for input in the vehicle maintenance system.
• Monitor Dossier efficiencies to include inventory control, goals for improved performance, monitoring, measuring and reporting.
• Assists in purchasing of new vehicles, equipment, tools and containers.
• Responsible for establishing maintenance related training sessions that improve overall fleet condition and operational knowledge of drivers, mechanics, and shop personnel.
• Administer and monitor regional adherence to federal and state programs, and oversees maintenance in accordance with EPA and other mandatory regulations.
• Verifies implementations of required DOT, OSHA, EPA regulations and monitors conformance as required on an ongoing basis. Coordinate efforts with local Safety, Corporate Safety and Regional Maintenance Manager.
• Ensuring efficient utilization, vehicle maintenance quality, and transportation to ready-lines.
• Fleet inventory/condition reporting, including out of service listing, matched to asset list.
• Responsible for implementation/monitoring of all fleet maintenance activities (e.g.Pre/Post pre-trip, safety lane, warranty recovery, tire standards, oil/lubricants, major component failure, and all new initiatives).
• Facilitate movement of equipment between division ensuring proper inspections and delivery of equipment in ready condition.
• Evaluate body damage estimates as it relates to maintenance and fleet functions; manages cost controls and enhances vendor service.
• Evaluate equipment performance and recommend modifications and/or alternate vendors based on maintenance/costing information.
• Analyze service issues related to fleet maintenance and performs root cause analysis, recommends remediation methodologies and escalates as needed to address issues.
• Supports efforts to create useful metrics and performance (on-line/off-line) diagnostic reporting tools (e.g. machinery dynamics) to support fleet quality trending and fleet maintenance performance.

OTHER JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Employees in this job classification must attend and participate in corporation sponsored training courses as assigned.
• Employees in this job classification are responsible for keeping up to date on current technology, as job appropriate, being used by Waste Pro.
• Any additional job duties that may be assigned by the Supervisor.

CDL Required

No CDL Required

Special Considerations/Physical Work Requirements

• Exposure to chemical and residential waste.
• Walking, Jogging, Twisting, Crouching, Lifting
• Sufficient stamina for steady work pace throughout the day
• Able to utilize all Personal Protective Equipment as mandated by company
• Physically able to get up and down from the cab of a commercial motor vehicle between 50 and 100 times a day
• Physically able to lift 50 to 75 pounds from the floor to waist height unassisted
• Physically able to lift 50 pounds from the floor to shoulder height unassisted
• Physically able to lift 50 pounds from the floor to overhead unassisted
• Physically able to push and pull 50 pounds unassisted
• Physically able to frequently (100-200 times) bend at the knees and waist
• Physically able to frequently (100-200 times) reach over your head or reach out with extended arms to perform work
• Physically able to frequently (100-200 times) twist at the waist to perform work
• Physically able to work in extreme temperatures and weather environments (road calls)

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Normal setting for this job is: Inside and Outside with occasional exposure to extreme weather conditions.

This Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or on any other basis prohibited by law. Information on race, gender and national origin will only be used for statistical and record-keeping purposes, and will not be used in making any employment decisions. All information provided will be kept separate from your expression of interest. Providing this information is strictly voluntary, and you will not be subjected to any adverse action or treatment if you choose not to provide this information. If you do not choose to answer these questions, we ask that you select "Decline to Identify" for each question. Thank you for your voluntary cooperation.