Equipment and Fleet Manager

Essential functions, as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, include the responsibilities, knowledge, skills, and other characteristics listed below. This list of responsibilities is ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY, and is not a comprehensive listing of all functions and tasks performed by positions in this class. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other duties may be assigned. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Summary Under general direction, the Equipment & Fleet Manager plans, organizes, directs, and evaluates the Sheriff’s Office fleet-management program. The position is responsible for ensuring that vehicles and related equipment are safe, reliable, operationally ready, cost-effective, and appropriately managed throughout their lifecycle. The Equipment & Fleet Manager leads assigned personnel; establishes service standards and performance expectations; manages preventive maintenance, repairs, acquisitions, upfitting, utilization, replacement, disposal, parts, fuel, vendors, contracts, budgets, and fleet records; and provides command staff with accurate information and recommendations concerning fleet readiness, costs, risks, and future requirements. The position requires a working understanding of vehicle and equipment maintenance sufficient to evaluate work, make informed management decisions, communicate effectively with technical personnel, and ensure quality and safety. The position is primarily managerial and is not intended to function as the principal production mechanic. Individuals in this position serve at the pleasure of the current elected official. Leadership and Personnel Management Plans, directs, and evaluates the daily and long-range operations of Fleet Services and accepts accountability for fleet readiness, service quality, safety, timeliness, cost control, and customer service. Supervises assigned mechanics and support personnel, including participation in selection and hiring; establishes clear expectations; assigns and prioritizes work; trains, coaches, mentors, evaluates, recognizes, and disciplines employees in accordance with County policy and applicable law. Develops employees through documented training, cross-training, performance improvement, professional development, and succession planning. Establishes schedules, approves leave and overtime, assigns emergency or on-call coverage, and recalls employees when necessary to support urgent public-safety operations. Promotes a professional, accountable, safe, and service-oriented work environment; addresses conflict, conduct, attendance, productivity, and performance concerns promptly and consistently. Communicates significant personnel, safety, operational, budgetary, and readiness concerns to the Division Commander with timely recommendations and proposed corrective actions. Fleet Program Management Develops, implements, and continuously improves a comprehensive fleet-management program covering acquisition, specification, upfitting, assignment, utilization, preventive maintenance, repair, accident management, replacement, and disposal. Establishes and enforces preventive-maintenance schedules, inspection standards, service priorities, quality-control procedures, and repair documentation requirements. Prioritizes work based on employee safety, public-safety mission requirements, vehicle availability, operational risk, parts availability, cost, and reasonable alternatives. Monitors vehicle availability, downtime, open work orders, repeat repairs, aging assets, and fleet condition; initiates corrective action when performance or readiness falls below established standards. Evaluates repair-versus-replace decisions using safety, reliability, age, mileage, utilization, downtime, lifecycle cost, warranty status, and operational requirements. Develops annual and multiyear vehicle and equipment replacement plans and recommends fleet standardization, right-sizing, reassignment, or disposal when appropriate. Oversees the specification, acquisition, installation, inspection, and lifecycle support of emergency equipment, including warning systems, sirens, radios, cages, partitions, consoles, and other public-safety vehicle components. Coordinates accident and body-repair processes, vehicle transport, estimates, insurance or risk-management documentation, and return-to-service decisions. Ensures recalls, warranty work, manufacturer service campaigns, and vendor warranty recovery are identified, documented, and completed. Budget, Procurement, Inventory, and Vendor Management Prepares, administers, and monitors Fleet Services operating and capital budgets; forecasts personnel, parts, tools, contracted services, replacement, and facility needs; explains variances and recommends corrective action. Develops vehicle, equipment, service, and parts specifications and works with County Purchasing and other departments through solicitation, evaluation, award, purchase, and contract administration. Evaluates vendor qualifications, pricing, service quality, turnaround time, warranty performance, and contract compliance; addresses deficiencies and recommends renewal, replacement, or corrective action. Maintains effective controls for parts, tires, fluids, tools, fuel, and other accountable resources, including authorization, receiving, issuance, reconciliation, inventory accuracy, and loss prevention. Uses cost-benefit, total-cost-of-ownership, and lifecycle analysis to support purchasing, repair, outsourcing, standardization, and replacement recommendations. Reviews invoices, estimates, purchase documentation, and completed work for accuracy, authorization, contract compliance, and receipt of goods or services. Fleet Information, Records, and Performance Management Administers or oversees the fleet-management information system and ensures accurate, timely, and complete asset, work-order, labor, parts, cost, mileage,