Regional Fleet Manager

Description

Position at Ruppert Landscape Maintenance

Region Fleet Manager

Supervisor:

Director of Shop Operations

Company Overview:

Ruppert Landscape is a privately held, family/employee owned, commercial landscape company based in Laytonsville, MD. A multi-state presence, with a small company feel, while providing opportunities for over 2,500 employees. Our focus is delivering exceptional commercial landscape and exterior site services with a mission of taking care of our people and customers and being good stewards in the community.

The Fleet Department aims to provide the best looking, most dependable, safe, and cost-effective fleet solutions in the industry, while supporting quality, efficiency, and profitability throughout the organization by focusing on the key components of training, maintaining, and repairing as we support operations across 45 branches.

Responsibilities:

The Northern Regional Fleet Manager will help support our Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland branches with:
The hiring, training, development, evaluation and management of Shop Managers, Mechanics, and other shop staff
Management of our Fleet's reconditioning programs from scheduling, training, monitoring, communicating and successfully obtaining the commitments needed to meet individual branch deadlines
Ensuring Ruppert shop systems are in place and used to manage our fleet to align with company's deliverables and KPI's
Ensuring repairs are handled timely and properly tracked
Ensuring vehicles maintain the image in accordance with company policy
Invoice approval and overall financial responsibility to the equipment overhead budgets for assigned branches
Provide direction on proper O/H inventory levels
Assist shop managers and their branches building and managing budgets
Participating in training and safety calls, and supporting initiatives
Maintaining DOT and safety compliance through our Fleet Maintenance Programs and reporting requirements

Qualifications:
Experience in a retail repair shop, private fleet or for hire carrier as a Class A Technician, Shop Foreman, or Service Manager.
Experience managing multiple business units
5+ years of industry experience in fleet maintenance management or operations capacity within the Landscape Industry
Strong MS Office Skills including Word and Excel
Excellent communication skills, attention to detail, and a positive attitude
Knowledge of Federal DOT rules & regulations, OSHA
Ideal candidate would be located in the Mid-Atlantic geographic area as travel to the branches they support through MD, DE and PA is required
Landscape Industry experience a plus

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