Operations Supervisor - Fleet Maintenance

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Job Description:

Schedule: Tuesday - Saturday

Shift: 8am - 5pm

Salary: $65,000 + $2500 Sign on Bonus + Annual Bonus

Location: Cheektwaga NY 14225

Are you a hands-on leader who thrives in a fast-paced maintenance environment? We’re seeking an Operations Supervisor to lead shop performance, support technician development, and ensure exceptional customer service while driving safety, quality, and financial results. In this role, you’ll take ownership of daily shop operations, balance labor and workflow demands, and play a critical role in delivering vehicle uptime and operational excellence.

This position is ideal for a motivated maintenance professional ready to step into a leadership role—or further develop their supervisory experience—with a clear path toward future Operations Manager advancement.

The Operations Supervisor assists the Operations Manager I and II and/or Sr. Operations Manager I and II manage the operations and personnel for a shift of a particular location. The Operations Supervisor may have supervisory duties of employees on a shift, including but not limited to: Technicians-In· Charge, Customer Service Coordinators, Technicians, and Service Employees. The Operations Supervisor must be able to accomplish results and ensure business objectives and labor requirements are met. The Operations Supervisor is responsible for ensuring the customers' needs are being met while balancing financial, operating, quality, safety and asset targets against the requirements of the business. This position is responsible for the management of the location performance against metrics to meet and/or exceed assigned objectives. The Operations Supervisor should be cross functionally trained in order to be able to back up others within the shop. As with all FMS Shop positions, the SS is responsible for adhering to all Ryder Maintenance Operations policies and procedures. This may also be a development position to prepare incumbents for the Operations Manager role.

Essential Functions

• Workflow Management:
  Responsible for work analysis, planning and scheduling, scheduling and assigning work to technicians, productivity tracking and optimization, shift and shop meetings, and RO review and approval
  Ensures all warranty policies and procedures are executed
  Responsible for Triage of unscheduled customer drive-ins, and for communicating with customers and assigning work to technicians as appropriate
  Responsible for conducting yard checks to ensure proper work scheduling and prioritization

• Labor Management
  Provides management, training and development of all personnel assigned
  Responsible for Performance Management of all assigned personnel

• Customer Management:
  Responsible for customer relationship management to include issue resolutions, customer satisfaction and retention, as well as ensuring vehicle uptime
  Responsible for customer communication protocol as it pertains to PM Scheduling & follow-up, breakdowns and vehicle status updates
  Conduct customer visits as required by the Customer Care Plan

• Asset Management:
  Directs his/her direct reports in maintaining the appearance and maintenance of assigned location, including sustaining 65 standards in all relevant shop areas of responsibility
  Evaluates needs and makes recommendation for shop tooling and equipment requirements
  Assist in the management and oversight of vehicle specifications and vehicle in· service/out-service process
  Assist in ensuring all vehicles have required specifications in SAM
  Responsible for Parts Inventory management, policies and procedures

• Quality Management:
  Responsible for Quality Inspections of PM & repairs, as well as performing In Process Reviews of non-PM work
  Perform breakdown root cause analysis, implement corrective actions locally, and when necessary, communicate issues to Technical Assistance Center
  Ensure Cleanliness and quality of repair for all maintained vehicles
  Work with Service Manager to ensure all technicians are properly trained and qualified, and TOPS plan is prioritized based upon Breakdown, Rework and Running Cost trends
  Maintain control/visibility over shop floor activities to ensure proper root cause diagnosis by technicians and that the yield on all parts/components is optimized
  Assist in the development and ensure implementation of Quality Assurance Audit Corrective Action plans and Continuous Improvement programs
  Accountable for maintenance of all relevant documentation required to mee