IndirizzoTransportation Director
As a member of the Distribution Lead Team, the Transportation Director ensures our client’s fleet of vehicles and common carrier use are married together as a key component to providing outstanding customer servicing at the lowest cost and best value to customers they serve. This role oversees all company vehicles including commercial licensed vehicles regulated by the DOT, vehicles supporting operations, company passenger vehicles, sales support/service vehicles, operations lift trucks and other specialty vehicles with all company and regulated authorities’ specific requirements. This position will own all programs and technology to include Driver Safety, Fleet Management, Driver Recruiting and Training Programs, ELDs, and Transportation Management System. This role will also directly manage the company fleet domiciled at company locations, maintains, and establish processes/ procedures, source and assure cost effective ownership and manage the life cycle of each vehicle in partnership with management of each company location.
Job Type: Full-time
Responsibilities:
- Manages all company-owned, leased, or short-term rental vehicles through their effective life meeting the needs of their users, as well as coordinates disposal of assets in partnership with internal stakeholders, finance, and Distribution management.
- Ensures each vehicle adheres to industry standards and regulations for emissions, usage, and operation.
- Tracks the effectiveness and use of each piece of equipment and considers options for next-generation refinement to specifications.
- Maintains an awareness and enforces compliance for vehicle non-conformance and damage. Manages accident reporting, damage claims, and repair-replace best practices. Audits vendor billing for accuracy and handles exceptions as needed.
- Manages a system of vehicle auditing to assure compliance and maintenance.
- Identifies, manages, and recommends changes to corporate fuel purchase programs.
- Maintains a system or record keeping and manages the operations teams’ ownership of executing maintenance for company vehicles. Develops practices and makes changes to fleet plans to reduce the cost of ownership over the life of the company’s fleet.
- Manages licensing, permits, and all required documentation for the vehicles to operate and comply with DOT, state, and other applicable regulations.
- Manages overall corporate responsibility as a carrier regarding ALL FMCSA and the Department of Transportation.
- FMCSA compliance to driver records, onboarding, drug and alcohol testing fleet record keeping.
- DOT compliance – Driver Training and Safety Programs, Electronic Log compliance, fleet record keeping.
- Uses and stays current regarding industry knowledge in conjunction with developing specifications for fleet assets based on business requirements, company feedback, and financial guidance. Forecasts vehicle needs for each intended function. Recommends vehicle purchases, leases, and rentals when adding or replacing vehicles in the company’s fleet.
- Identifies and recommends strategies to reduce equipment and vehicle costs. Reports performance vs. metric specific to but not limited to the following: fleet productivity, cost of ownership, vehicle specification performance, compliance, and additional fleet-specific metrics. Uses data to support decisions and recommendations. Evaluate best-in-industry practices as the basis of recommendations or decision-making to contribute to achieving corporate financial goals and initiatives.
- Owns and administers the Transportation Management System as well as any associated systems.
- Collaborates with distribution department senior management by preparing the annual fleet budget as part of an overall plan to support company fleet needs, growth, and management of the fleet through assets’ life cycle of ownership.
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Logistics, or a related field or 7-10 years of Fleet Management and Common Carrier Contract Management.
- 5 years of demonstrated technical capability with Routing and Transportation Management Software to include sourcing and implementation.
- $20M minimum of previous transportation budget ownership.
- Successful leadership of direct reports.
- Experience working with fleet operations software.
- Advanced software experience using Outlook, Excel, Word, SharePoint.
- Experience using business intelligence software & analyzing data to reach conclusions.
This position offers a competitive base salary.
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