Fleet Maintenance Director

Description

FLSA: Exempt

Purpose of Classification:

The purpose of this classification is to supervise the effective and economical management of the Fleet Maintenance Shop in accordance with acceptable shop practices. Ensures the implementation and application of a preventive maintenance program for all City and County owned vehicles and equipment. Reports to the City Administrator.

Essential Functions: 

Manages, directs, and evaluates assigned staff. Develops and oversees employee work schedules to ensure adequate coverage and control. Plans and coordinates tasks and activities of City and County's fleet auto repair shop, working on gas and diesel-powered vehicles, trucks, and heavy equipment. Prepares maintenance schedules for motor vehicles and heavy equipment; notifies drivers and operators when maintenance is to be performed. Operates diagnostic equipment. Performs repairs and maintenance. Maintains database of maintenance and repair records for company vehicles and equipment. Oversees shop inventory, orders parts, shop supplies, and equipment. Ensures applicable safety standards and regulations are followed in the facility. Attends City Council meetings as necessary: reports as required on items of interest and need. Trains, tests, and issues Commercial Driver's Licenses (CDL) to all City and County employees that are required to obtain one: and attends CDL training classes as required. Develop annual budget for the department. Consults with City Administrator and other department heads on purchasing of new equipment and vehicles. Prepares decommissioned vehicles and equipment for sale.

Additional Functions:

Performs other related duties as required.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

Associate degree in Auto Mechanics or a related field required; supplemented by three years of experience in auto mechanics, heavy equipment maintenance or related field; or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this job. 

Specific License or Certification Required: Must possess and maintain a valid South Carolina Commercial Driver’s License (CDL), including appropriate endorsement(s). 

Specific Knowledge, Skills, or Abilities: Must be able to demonstrate proficiency in performance of the essential functions and learn, comprehend, and apply all City or departmental policies, practices, and procedures necessary to function effectively in the position.

Performance Aptitudes:

Data Utilization: Requires the ability to evaluate, audit, deduce, and/or assess data using established criteria. Includes exercising discretion in determining actual or probable consequences and in referencing such evaluation to identify and select alternatives.

Human Interaction: Requires the ability to act as a first-line supervisor, including instructing, assigning and reviewing work, maintaining standards, coordinating activities, and evaluating employee job performance.

Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization: Requires the ability to overhaul, restore, renovate, construct, and/or rebuild equipment, machinery, or objects, requiring adherence to prescribed standards and specifications. Requires the ability to operate and control the actions of the same equipment, machinery, and/or objects. 

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference and descriptive data and information.

Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; the ability to calculate decimals and percentages; the ability to utilize principles of fractions; and the ability to interpret graphs.

Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems, such as motivation, incentive, and leadership, and to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to resolve problems.

Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental, or subjective criteria, as opposed to that which is clearly measurable or verifiable.

ADA Compliance:

Physical Ability: Tasks require the ability to exert very moderate physical effort in light work, typically involving some combination of stooping, kneeling, crouching and crawling, and which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of moderate weight (up to 50 pounds).

Sensory Requirements: Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate colors or shades of colors, sounds, odor, depth, texture, and visual cues or signals. Some tasks require the ability to communicate orally.

Environmental Factors: Performance of essential functions may require exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, odors, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, hazardous materials, confined spaces, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, traffic hazards, or bright/dim lights.

The City of Union is an Equal Opportunity Employer. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the City will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and encourages both prospective and current employees to discuss potential accommodations with the employer.