Strategic Fleet Asset Manager

Liberty Tire Recycling, LLC; Sanford (NC); On-site; USD 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Liberty Tire Recycling is seeking a Fleet Asset Manager to optimize our fleet across multiple sites in the US. You will oversee tractors, trailers, and other mobile equipment, manage leases, support capital planning, and reduce fleet costs.

Collaborate with site operations and procurement to balance asset utilization, negotiate terms with vendors, and build governance to minimize idle equipment and overruns.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience in fleet or asset management, equipment leasing, transportation, or procurement.
• Experience managing lease or rental agreements and 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.
• 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

Fleet management

Financial analysis

Lease negotiations

Data analysis

Cross-site collaboration

Education

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

Tools

Excel

Job description

Liberty Tire Recycling is seeking a Fleet Asset Manager to optimize our fleet across multiple sites in the US. You will oversee tractors, trailers, and other mobile equipment, manage leases, support capital planning, and reduce fleet costs.

Collaborate with site operations and procurement to balance asset utilization, negotiate terms with vendors, and build governance to minimize idle equipment and overruns.