VP Maintenance

National Express companies share a strong commitment to provide the highest level of transportation safety quality transportation outstanding customer service and positive employee relations. Our corporate headquarters located in Lisle Illinois houses the administrative and corporate support functions for the organization. Our 250 local customer service centers (CSCs) are supported by regional operations teams located throughout North America. Learn more at .

BASIC FUNCTION: The Vice President of Fleet Maintenance will provide leadership and management to the organization and his/her functional group. Develop and deliver plan to have a first in class Fleet Maintenance operation.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Plans directs and maintains Fleet Maintenance initiatives across the organization and develops policies procedures and communication to support those initiatives
• Continuous improvement of safety reliability and efficiency standards for a fleet of approximately 15000 vehicles
• Provides strategic leadership and direction on comprehensive fleet maintenance policies programs tools and systems for approximately 200 locations in North America.
• Responsible for the strategic planning allocation and distribution of assets across the business centers based on operational needs of each operating area
• Oversee overall financial management planning systems and controls for Fleet Maintenance
• Collaborate on the capital investment related to fleet and report metrics and allocation to senior leadership and executives on a regular basis
• Develops and executes strategic business plans with vendors develops negotiating strategies and delivers superior cost savings to the organization
• Identifies strategies to deliver year-over-year cost improvements in direct and indirect materials and capital expenditures
• Ensures effective planning and management of the department budget approves expenditures within prescribed limits develops recommendations to address unplanned financial pressures and advocates for additional human/financial resources to meet increased/unplanned program responsibilities

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelors Degree in a business or engineering discipline is required; MBA or comparable advanced degree strongly preferred
• 15 years of senior level experience preferably driving change and improvement of standards required
• Green Belt or better as a Lean Six Sigma qualification strongly preferred
• Proven strategic planning and leadership expertise to manage the development of organization-wide fleet maintenance procurement and asset strategies required
• Knowledge and expertise in developing communication plans and strategies to facilitate the rollout of organizational initiatives
• Knowledge of information technology to lead the development and implementation of systems technologies and templates to support the collection and analysis of data to identify emerging trends that impact fleet maintenance operations
• Vendor management and negotiation experience strongly preferred
• Proven managerial and leadership experience providing direction guidance and coaching to staff required
• Excellent interpersonal skills and well developed written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time within North America

We offer medical dental vision basic life insurance coverage holiday pay and PTO accrual. Additionally employees are able to enroll in a retirement savings plan. The pay rate range along with most all of the other terms and conditions of employment vary between different sites geographical markets customer/ contractual terms and positions.

At National Express our goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative of the communities we serve. All employment decisions are based on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race color religion sex pregnancy (including childbirth lactation and related medical conditions) national origin age physical and mental disability marital status sexual orientation gender identity gender expression genetic information (including characteristics and testing) military and veteran status and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

National Express LLCs independent subsidiaries and affiliates are an equal employment opportunity (EEO) employer

The pay rate range along with most all of the other terms and conditions of employment vary between different sites geographical markets customer/ contractual terms and positions.