
Equipment Manager - Dedicated Transportation
- Tallahassee, FL
- $65,000-70,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Comprehensive training and the ability to continue your professional development
- Regional and local Ryder resources to help guide and support as we grow this offering.
- The stability and peace-of-mind that comes with working for a World-Class, Fortune 500 organization that has been in business for over 85 years with over 36,000 employees worldwide.
- 12 weeks of paid maternity leave.
- Additional day of Paid Time Off for Military Veterans.
- Balance freight and equipment availability in assigned markets according to capacity, customer requirements and planner needs and manage internal capacity to match freight volume.
- Coordinate equipment pools availability at customer sites and geographical locations to balance available assets and meet operations and customer needs.
- Review daily PM report. Plan with Driver Manager and schedule units for PM with shops.
- Communicate with shop, planners and driver managers to minimize any downtime of units and drivers, utilizing substitute or FLEX resources, if needed. Monitor exceptions in key metrics dashboard.
- Review and create shop requested purchase orders under $5K.
- Follow-up on all ongoing repair orders, and requested driver equipment and safety gear.
- Address all equipment breakdowns.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Proven experience in establishing and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors and peers.
- Ability to understand, monitor, update or enhance existing business or work process.
- Deliver effective verbal and written communication in order to drive results
- Deal effectively with ambiguity.
- Accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgement.
- Understanding of the importance of meeting or exceeding established targets and ability to driver critical activities to completion.
- Bachelor's degree required in Finance, Business Administration/Management/Communication or Transportation/Logistics
- Three (3) to five (5) years of experience with asset management
- Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access) is required
- Knowledge of vehicle specifications, customer requirements and contractual agreements
- Knowledge of operational forecasting and planning
- Knowledge and experience with SAM, FIS, SMO and RIDE