Confidential Looking for Fleet Director at Greater Toronto Area, Canada Full Time

A leading North American services and trades provider is seeking an experienced Director to lead its Fleet. This is a key role reporting to the senior leadership and has oversight for thousands of commercial vehicles and equipment as well as strategic responsibilities for effective performance and maintenance programs.

In this role you will be:

• Managing a fleet of thousands of heavy and light equipment, and commercial vehicles across North America.
• Managing liability and insurance policies across the fleet.
• Collaborating with different stakeholders in the development and maintenance of standardized preventive maintenance programs
• Developing metrics that measure the effectiveness of different programs such as maintenance and repair, downtime, equipment disposal, and extending equipment life.
• Collaborating to assess and monitor depreciation and compare with the estimated life of each piece so that interventions are made to extend the life of the equipment where necessary and/or to determine the appropriate disposal method.
• Managing multiple large-scale budgets and continuous improvement projects
• Research and deploy new technologies and tools to drive increased utilization, reduce costs and increase overall reliability.
• Lead root cause failure analysis on repeat failures.
• Developing equipment disposition plans annually.
• Complete audits on maintenance, inventory, purchasing and administration processes.
• Monitor data integrity through equipment and item setup in database

Knowledge, Skills, and Experiences:

• A minimum of 15 years of experience and a solid background in repair and maintenance of fixed and mobile equipment, vehicles, and assets.
• Ability to analyze data, develop effective equipment strategies and implement them.
• Have a thorough knowledge of the heavy equipment market.
• Must have Canadian experience in a fleet management position.
• College or university degree in a relevant field.
• Thorough understanding of purchasing and inventory management, and asset tracking for all corporate assets.