AV Fleet Maintenance Planner

Position summary 

The Data Collection Fleet Maintenance Planner is responsible for coordinating all planned and unplanned work required to maintain, repair, and retrofit data collection fleet vehicles across multiple locations. This role ensures maintenance activity is forecasted, prioritized, scheduled, and tracked in a way that supports fleet safety, vehicle readiness, uptime, and data collection goals. 

Core responsibilities 

• Coordinate all work required to maintain fleet health across DCV and related fleet vehicles, including preventative maintenance, corrective repairs, retrofits, fleet-wide updates, and other readiness work. 

• Forecast, plan, schedule, and track planned and unplanned maintenance activity across multiple sites and markets. 

• Create, categorize, prioritize, and manage work orders to ensure work is clearly defined, visible to technicians, and completed through the proper workflow from scheduled to closure. 

• Coordinate retrofit execution across locations, including work order creation, site readiness, parts and tooling readiness, technician resourcing, and sequencing of vehicle downtime. 

• Balance work priorities across preventative maintenance, unplanned repairs, retrofit campaigns, and engineering-driven vehicle changes to maximize fleet uptime and operational readiness. 

• Ensure work is documented accurately and consistently so teams can track status, analyze trends, and improve execution quality over time. 

Cross-functional coordination 

This role must be able to coordinate priorities and execution tradeoffs with:  

• Vehicle technicians, who perform maintenance, repair, diagnostic, and retrofit work in the field and service locations.  

• Engineering and fleet reliability teams, to align on issue severity, support diagnostics, incorporate engineering insights, and drive systemic fixes that reduce repeat failures.  

• Operations teams, to balance maintenance downtime against deployment needs, route plans, and data collection targets.  

• Fleet management teams, to coordinate vehicle availability, movement, allocation, retrofit timing, and broader fleet readiness across locations. 

Key deliverables 

• Maintenance schedules and work plans that support fleet uptime and readiness targets across sites. 

• Prioritized work orders with clear descriptions, urgency, facility assignment, and execution status tracking. 

• Retrofit coordination plans that align vehicles, technicians, parts, tooling, and site capacity across multiple locations. 

• Clear daily and weekly prioritization across technicians, engineering needs, fleet operations constraints, and maintenance capacity. 

Preferred experience and capabilities 

• Experience in fleet maintenance planning, service operations, field coordination, or technical operations supporting vehicle fleets across multiple locations. 

• Strong ability to organize and prioritize a high volume of planned and unpl