Director, Fleet - Hoffman Estates, IL

Crystal Clean (CC) is one of the nation's leading privately held companies in the environmental waste services industry. We are seeking highly motivated individuals with a strong work ethic to join our rapidly growing company. Crystal Clean offers competitive compensation, excellent benefits, and opportunities for advancement.

Purpose: The Director of Fleet is responsible for leading, facilitating, planning, and managing all forms of fleet services company-wide. This includes defining and leading the company's fleet strategy, fleet maintenance programs, fleet design enhancements, and effective on-road fuel programs. The successful candidate will have fiscal responsibility for all fleet-related activities, lead a team that provides outstanding customer service, and develop the fleet organization to deliver ever-improving fleet solutions.

Essential Duties:

• Build and maintain the strategic plan and associated deliverables for the Fleet function, fleet maintenance programs, and fuel management
• Lead best practices identification with an emphasis on continuous improvement
• Manage Fleet spend budget and be able to explain price volume variances each month and compared to prior year
• Ensure solid linkages exist between internal functions and partners, collaborating closely with the Procurement group, Logistics, Sales, Plant Operations, Distribution Centers, EHS, Legal, and Finance
• Manage performance over a range of key performance indicators, such as on-time delivery performance, maintenance performance, and cost.
• Be the 'expert' in Fleet regulatory requirements, industry trends, best practices, technology solutions, and customer requirements, proactively managing risks and opportunities.
• Lead risk mitigation strategy for the department that minimizes the impact of potential concentration risk across the supply chain and safety risk mitigation
• Closely collaborate with Procurement to support the annual Fleet budget process, monthly budget variance analysis, and cost reconciliations
• Management of multiple cost savings projects - scope definition, planning, documentation/vetting, timeline execution, and leadership of cross-functional teams
• This role may require up to 15% travel

Results / KPI's

• Service - On-time performance on maintenance activities
• Fleet roadmap defined and ratified
• Financial - Budget performance
• Supply chain management - Performance reviews, quarterly face-to-face business reviews, bid out projects as defined by each type of truck or trailer as needed

Position Qualification Requirements:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The following requirements are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Core Competencies

• Strong supply chain and logistics knowledge and familiarity with general manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution operation
• Ability to influence members of cross-functional teams
• Self-motivated and results-oriented

Work Experience

• Minimum of 10+ years' experience working in the Fleet industry.
• Demonstrated understanding of end-to-end supply chain strategy is fundamental to this challenging role.
• Experience in industry trends and best practices for emerging Fleet solutions.

Education, Certificates, Licenses, or Designations

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management or related discipline (Transportation, Operations, etc.)
• MBA or advanced degree is a plus

Specific Skills

• Proficient in MS Office Applications (Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint)
• Strong business acumen and analytical skills

Work Environment:

While performing essential duties of this position an individual regularly works indoors, and may be required to sit for long periods. Individual will be required to regularly talk, hear, see and often reach with hands, stand, and walk, use a computer keyboard, mouse, telephone, and other office equipment. Noise level of the environment is generally quiet. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential duties.

Crystal Clean LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Crystal Clean expressly values diversity, equity, and inclusion, and encourages the applications of individuals from diverse backgrounds, so that Crystal Clean reflects the communities and customers that we serve.