Tire Manager

Description

Job Summary:

Manages truck and trailer tire maintenance for all United Road Services (URS) terminals. Works with location’s maintenance supervision to ensure understanding and compliance with URS tire policy and process with frontline personnel. The prime focus of this position will be to maximize tire life and lower URS tire cost per mile.

Essential Functions:

Carrying out URS’s organizational values and operating in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and URS policies are required functions. Essential and other important responsibilities and duties may include but are not limited to the following.

1. Ensure URS maintenance facilities are performing tire maintenance in a safe and efficient manner and comply with URS safety policies.

2. Audit URS maintenance facilities to ensure they are adhering to DOT, OSHA, EPA, DOL and other government regulatory agencies requirements when performing tire maintenance.

3. Provide the necessary leadership to build, implement, and maintain an effective tire strategy for URS maintenance operations.

4. Provide leadership with Location Maintenance teams in focusing on Corporate KPI’s that will drive Tire cost and Breakdown frequency reduction

5. Periodically assist the VP of Maintenance in creating tire budgets.

6. Monitor company and individual location’s performance to assigned KPI objectives and budgets.

7. Analyze tire operating costs and develop plans to address any operational shortfalls, by working with location’s management, Regional Maintenance Management or VP of Maintenance as needed

8. Strive for continuous improvement in lowering URS’s tire cost per mile by constantly surveying the industry, meeting with tire OEMs and vendors, identifying best practices, and utilizing the best cost strategies with the goal to maximize tire life and overall operational profitability.

9. Ensure tire purchasing compliance with URS national account programs in shop terminals and over-the-road situations. Monitor tire inventories at shop terminals to ensure proper levels are maintained. Recommend any needed changes to the URS VP of Maintenance.

10. Conduct frequent out-of-service tire analysis (OOSTA) at URS locations, in cooperation with local management and tire vendors, gather data on failure tire failure trends and provide periodic reporting.

11. Conduct periodic tire audits of URS in-service equipment.

Qualifications

Job Requirements / Minimum Qualifications:

Education: Associate, Vocational or Technical Degree, or equivalent work experience.

Course Study: Diesel trade school or a demonstrated competency in maintenance management with a strong background in fleet tire management.

Experience: Five to seven years in overall fleet maintenance with at least two years’ experience in a lead technician or service manager role. Prefer direct experience managing mid-size to large fleet tire maintenance programs.

Required Knowledge and Skills and Abilities:

1. Employee must be able to commit to URS’s values and act with integrity in everything we do.

2. Employees should have a broad knowledge of DOT rules and regulations.

3. Strong math skills with the ability to compute rates, ratios, and percentage.

4. Must have a good working knowledge of MS Office products and ability to learn various computer software applications, such as, but not limited to Trimble AMS.

5. Demonstrated leadership and management ability.

6. Must have good interpersonal and relationship management skills.

7. Demonstrated cooperation and teamwork in accomplishing goals and objectives.

8. Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.

9. Needs the ability to set priorities and accomplish duties of the position with little supervision.

Physical Demands of the Job:

1. Employees must have a valid CDL and ability to pass a DOT physical.

2. Employees must be able to twist, bend, pull, push and lift up to 75 pounds.

3. Work more than eight hours per day, forty hours per week to accomplish duties of position.

4. Employees will be required to stand, walk, sit, use fingers, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, and crouch.

5. Employees will present a neat, clean professional appearance of self and use proper business etiquette.

Environmental Demands of the Job:

1. The employee’s time will be spent in both an office and in field locations with between 50% -75% travel.

2. The field locations may be loud, dirty, dusty and greasy, but within OSHA regulations.

3. Will often work around moving machinery and vehicles.

4. Location will have diesel fumes and other adversities.

5. At times, employees may have to work outdoors in the rain, snow, or other adverse weather conditions.