Strategic 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

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.