Fleet Maintenance Manager (Equipment Services) - Promotional Only

Salary\: $70,044 - $105,066

Position Grade\: 216M

Department\: Board of Public Service

Job Type\: Full-Time (Permanent)

Examination Number\: EX1830

Location\: St. Louis, MO

Promotional - Open to Permanent City Employees Only.

This position is responsible for managing the maintenance and repair including parts performed in multiple vehicle and equipment facilities and/or shifts through subordinate supervisors, will establish operational priorities, coordinate these with other units to ensure program objectives and standards are met and in keeping with the overall goals of the division. Acts as the primary liaison with outsource work vendors, suppliers and customers. Is the primary training manager for their staff. Writes/reviews technical vehicle and contract specifications. Reports directly to the Commissioner of Equipment Services.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities\:

● Supervises multiple Fleet Maintenance Foreman II, Fleet Maintenance Foreman I, and Fleet Parts Supervisor, if applicable. Reports to Commissioner of Equipment Services.

● Maintenance and repair facility management including parts operation with the overriding goal of reduction of fleet downtime and managing procurement and repair costs. Requires knowledge of inventory management for equipment and parts operation.

● Customer liaison for vehicle replacement prioritization, specification review/writing, vendor liaison, and factory build visits.

● Reports on procurement, parts, labor, repair, and overall shop costs; fleet status and replacements; abuse and neglect; and events including but not limited to natural disaster response and recovery, catastrophic event response and recovery, snow call, leaf pickup, and construction operations.

● Contracts development and compliance for outsourced services, equipment procurement, and materials.

● Management, safety monitoring, and training of 40-70 shop personnel in multiple locations/shifts.

● Generates database application reports including technician/shop productivity, parts and bulk materials inventory cycling and levels, and trend analysis to adjust preventive and predictive maintenance schedules, including the ability to interpret and report statistical data.

● Adds and removes vehicles and equipment into and out of the equipment management database.

● Collects, organizes, completes, and submits documentation pertaining to new vehicle and equipment acquisition.

● Plans, organizes, coordinates, and controls the work of staff and vendors to establish operational priorities, coordinates these operations with other functions within the division, and ensures all program objectives and standards are established, attained, and aligned with overall goals.

● Determines and requests and/or submits staff, material, and shop equipment needs for operations.

● Contributes to the formulation and justification of budgetary requests for the division.

● Determines performance evaluation standards and procedures to provide information to subordinate staff on individual work performance expectations to ensure complete and objective appraisal of subordinates’ performance.

● Develops and directs the implementation of operational plans pertinent to managed operations and/or programs to ensure the establishment of appropriate goals and the development of action steps to achieve these goals.

● Develops and recommends new and revised rules, policies, and procedures to respond to changes in operational and/or program needs, objectives, and priorities and to improve the effectiveness of managed operations and/or programs.

● Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities\:

● Data Utilization\: Requires the ability to perform mid to upper-level data analysis including the ability to coordinate, strategize, systemize and correlate, using discretion in determining time, place and/or sequence of operations within an organizational framework. Requires the ability to implement decisions based on such data, and overseeing the execution of these decisions.

● Human Interaction\: Requires the ability to manage and direct a large group of employees, including first-line supervisors. Oversees and controls employee discipline, selection and allocation, and planning of human resources.

● Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use\: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or provide simple but continuous adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as fleet equipment and vehicle, computer terminal, calculator, telephone and/or materials used in performing essential functions.

● Verbal Aptitude\: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of advisory data and information such as equipment/vehicle specifications, work orders, schedules, maintenance records, requisitions, budgets, billing statements, inventory records, catalogs, personnel policies, time sheets, job applications, performance evaluations, technical operating manuals, procedures, guidelines and non-routine correspondence.

● Mathematical Aptitude\: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate percentage and decimals.

● Functional Reasoning\: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or synthesis functions involving planning and directing of interrelated activities or multiple departments. Ability to deal with several concrete and abstract variables in working out approaches to major problems.

● Situational Reasoning\: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the direction, control and planning of an entire program or multiple programs.

● Environmental Factors\: Work is normally performed in an office environment under generally safe and comfortable conditions where exposure to irate individuals poses a very limited risk of injury.

● Physical Requirements\: Tasks involve the ability to exert light physical effort in sedentary to light work, but which may involve some lifting of objects within an office weighing five (5) to ten (10) pounds. Tasks may involve extended periods of time at a keyboard or workstation.

● Sensory Requirements\: Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of colors, shapes, sounds, odors and textures to perform vehicle/equipment inspections.