DIRECTOR FLEET MAINTENANCE Full-time Job

The City of Toronto is looking for a strong and dynamic leader to provide direction to the Fleet Maintenance Unit with our Fleet Services Division. The Director, Fleet Maintenance oversees the maintenance and repair of a diverse fleet of 5,200 vehicles and specialized equipment, as well as the City's consolidated green fleet program, supporting 44 Operating Divisions and collaborating with all City Agencies and Corporations. You will also be responsible for providing strategic advice, setting objectives, and ensuring efficient, effective, and economical fleet management services.
 

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
 

Strategic Leadership & Vision:
 

• • Develop and implement functional policies and programs that significantly enhance business performance based on long-term needs.
  • Provide strong leadership to enhance and promote Fleet Services’ vision, setting strategic directions, goals, and priorities, and taking a proactive approach to problem-solving.
  • Set the overall program direction for the Fleet Maintenance unit by establishing goals, objectives, and priorities that align with divisional goals, strategic directions, and Council priorities.

Operational & Fleet Maintenance Management:
 

• • Direct all activities of the Fleet Maintenance Unit through subordinate management staff, ensuring effective delegation and oversight.
  • Develops and applies continuous improvement practices to drive best value, lowest total cost of ownership, and remain competitive with the private sector.
  • Leverage analytics and industry-informed best practices to improve asset reliability and manage fleet operational costs.
  • Responsible for the development and maintenance of a systematic asset management approach including condition and needs assessments, decision impact analysis, monitoring, lifecycle analysis, best practices, benchmarking, and emerging and new technologies.
  • Actively manage relationships with external vendors and service providers, ensuring service levels are met.

Team Leadership & Development:
 

• • Lead and motivate a diverse workforce, ensuring effective teamwork, resolving labour relations issues, maintaining high standards of work quality and organizational performance, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
  • Leads Maintenance Unit management staff through planning and developing long-range objectives and leading by example, providing broad leadership to management staff who are accountable for implementing the plans.
  • Develop fleet strategies to transition operations and workforce skills to support increased electric vehicle and future alternative fuel vehicles (i.e. hydrogen).

Client Service Orientation:
 

• • Build strong partnerships with Fleet customers, ensuring that services, vehicles, and equipment provided meet the transportation and equipment needs of users.
  • Ensure the reduction of the corporate cost of fleet through harmonized practices and standards, streamlined processes, implementation of data-centric methodologies and information systems, inventory controls, rationalized facilities and operations, and productivity measures.

Sustainability & Asset Management:
 

• • Steward the long-term sustainability of fleet assets through strategic planning and policy development, focusing on improving asset management practices, reducing emissions, and implementing innovative maintenance programs.
  • Responsible for the stewardship of the long-range sustainability of fleet assets through strategic, high-level planning and policy development, and recommends priority needs for short and long-term improvements in support of the City's strategic goals.

Qualifications:
 

1. Extensive experience in a leadership role within a large, complex fleet maintenance and management function
2. Post-secondary education in a job-related professional discipline or an equivilant combination of education and experience.
3. Considerable experience in a fleet maintenance environment
4. Extensive experience in budget management, strategic planning, and policy development.
5. Extensive experience in building and maintaining relationships with key partners, resolving conflicts, and facilitating effective communication across various levels.
6. Strong client service orientation, with a demonstrated ability to build and maintain partnerships with key stakeholders.
7. Excellent communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
8. Exceptional ability to lead and motivate teams, with a focus on continuous improvement and innovation.
9. Strong political acuity and the ability to influence at different levels of the organization.

Toronto, the capital of the province of Ontario, is a major Canadian city along Lake Ontarios northwestern shore. It's a dynamic metropolis with a core of soaring skyscrapers, all dwarfed by the iconic, free-standing CN Tower. Toronto also has many green spaces, from the orderly oval of Queens Park to 400-acre High Park and its trails, sports facilities and zoo.