Fleet Manager
Edita food industries
Total years of experience :13 years, 6 Months
Responsible for the operation and readiness of +900 vehicles with a value of over 250
MEGP.
- Select new vehicle types and specs, administer the induction and distribution by managing
the preparation and licensing processes and ensure the vehicle complies with standards
before end-user delivery
- Approve or reject salesforce monthly deductions after reviewing monthly/annually reports
(Maintenance - traffic fines - accidents)
- Track and maximize the fleet utilization/profitability by doing the necessary reallocation
based on truck productivity (KPIs) and generate periodic reports
- Set, establish and develop fleet policies, rules, and regulations
- Review, monitor and update fuel consumptions standard rates for all types of vehicles to
maximize the efficiency and theft control
- Develops and maintains outside vendor and service provider relationships (Trucks -
Trunks), and set new specs based on sales needs
- Communicates maintenance and licensing requirements to ensure maximum efficiency and
fleet availability by scheduling, prioritizing and liaising with the maintenance department
- Monitor and ensure fleet operation integrity and safety in compliance with local rules and
regulations, develop and implement operational standards to maintain fleet by advocating
best practices in the industry.
- Negotiates service agreements to ensure cost efficiencies and assists in the development of
maintenance budget by providing input relative to policy, costs, and established metrics.
- Monitor, assess and develop the performance and quality of fleet maintenance operations
(inside and outside workshops) also, ensure the maintenance is performed according to
standard and recommend schedule adjusting
- Lead corrective actions by analyzing the root cause of vehicle repeated breakdowns or
accidents and establish technical countermeasures or defensive driving training
topics/sessions to eliminate the number of cases.
- Oversees and maintains the fleet appearance across the DCs and schedule fleet renovation
plan.
- Implement a fleet management information system project, for recordkeeping, analysis,
evaluation and report generation for vehicle maintenance, repair history, operation metrics,
and life cycle decision making
- Resolve escalated issues arising from operations and requiring coordination with other
departments.
Main achievements:
- Raising the fleet value and appearance by renovating more than 70% of the fleet trucks in
18 months.
- Reduced truck depreciation by developing rules for trucks handling within the team.
- Reduced the number and severity of accidents within the fleet by developing new driving
test standards and conducted several defensive driving sessions across the DCs also
participated in the 2017 GB Auto defensive driving campaign.
- Enhanced the maintenance schedule and the fuel consumption rates to match the heavy-duty
working conditions.
- Reduced sudden breakdown cases by teaching the user how to check the trucks as a user
also organized several preventive maintenance campaigns for the DCs.
- Reduced the conflicts between sales, maintenance, and admins teams by developing
policies and procedures to match the real cases.
- Leading, supervising and organizing the work of technicians to perform their tasks with the highest quality standard and achieve the monthly target.
- Responsible for submitting professional technical reports on the DTEC system for warranty claims and technical feedbacks.
- Attended and passed all the online Chrysler academy courses enrolled for with high score.
- Responsible for handling emergency break down vehicles on road, turn of duty for the timekeeper or workshop manager when they are in vacation.
- Excellent user of wiTECH diagnostic tool, AS400 system and SAP lately to perform workshop duties.
- Aced in the skill contest held by FCA Egypt for 2014-2015 respectively as a high tech. engineer.
Senior Technical support engineer (Jan.2016- Oct.2016)
- Ensure that the Chrysler 6- steps are followed in any diagnostic procedures.
- Providing and supporting college engineers and technicians with all the essential technical data needed to diagnose, repair and maintain new models.
- Train all workshop members how to use new workshop facilities properly.
- Oversees employee training and development.
- Ensure a safe working environment.
- Ensures that equipment is properly maintained and repaired.
- Responsible for any sophisticated mechanical and electrical concerns, diagnose and advanced repairs within the workshop.
- Working according to a plan on vehicle’s layout, designing the submitted tasks according to countries regulations and customer’s requirements.
- Responsible of interiors design such as glasses, seats, flooring, ceiling.
- Responsible of exteriors design such as panels, flaps, bumpers.
- Developing assembled and detailed drawings for production using CAD software, following up the prototyping process and making any possible improvement.
- Also concern appearance vs. functionality, driver/passengers comfort and safety, accessibility for servicing and durability…..etc. Utilizing all available materials and production facilities.
- Using SAP enterprise software to upload drawings, as to be available to other technical departments.
- Checking SAP for materials availability on stocks, also checking the specification and description of the available inventory.
- Involved in testing vehicle according to the European regulations.
B. Sc. Automotive Mechanical engineering Grade: Very good with honors, GPA: 3.21/4. Graduation Project: Electronic Wedge Brake prototype Grade: Excellent.