Sr. Fleet Operations Manager

About the Company

At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business.

A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. Now a part of the Daimler family, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.

Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.

About the Role:
As the Sr. Fleet Operations Manager within our Fleet Ops and Safety Department, you will oversees the autonomous truck operations at site location in Albuquerque, NM. This includes federal and state requirements, safety and other compliance requirements, people management, and fleet administration. This position reports into the Senior Director of Fleet Operations. In this role you will oversee the testing safety process, dispatch and recovery of test vehicles, and testing objectives. You will ensure regulatory compliance of a Class 8 test fleet, and ensure all processes and policies are followed as directed. Responsibilities include business plans and deliverables, daily fleet operations, procurement and financials, safety, logistics, inventories, site onboarding, vendor negotiations and administration. Partner with Torc affiliates to ensure safe and continual operations.

What You'll Do:

• Supervises the Logistics Managers and provides leadership to their subordinates.
• Develops business plans, matrices and/or key performance indicators that will measure and deliver desired results of goals and deliverables.
• Completes operations by developing schedules, assigning and monitoring work, gathering resources, implementing productivity standards, resolving operations problems, maintaining reference manuals, and implementing new procedures.
• Work with logistics operations, fleet management, on-road testing to ensure safe and productive testing. Ensures maximum testing efficiency while maximizing time and resources and reducing risks and liability exposure.
• Collaborate with engineering to review and approve test plans to assure safe test operations. Responsible for fulfilling the established safety testing process and providing feedback to the test engineering teams.
• Define, communicate, and track key performance indicators for our teams.
• Ensure regulatory and DOT compliance.
• Partner with maintenance teams to understand base vehicle issues to mitigate potential downtime in the future.
• Support logistics to develop tools and methods that enable and empower safety and efficient compliant testing.
• Reviews daily weather forecast, road conditions and closures, traffic concerns and accidents, etc., that could cause a slow down or stoppage and ensures this information is provided to drivers and conductors to avoid potential dangers.
• Communicates in quick and proper formats to the director of operations, safety manager, fleet manager, and safety conductors.
• For accidents and incidents, assist in investigations and ensures appropriate documentation is communicated to leadership in an accurate and timely manner.
• Assist in creating and maintaining guidelines and procedures to protect the confidentiality of all company, site, and program documentation and materials

What You'll Need to Succeed:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, or related field of study preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in operations and management of a transportation/trucking center and fleet. Knowledge of autonomous vehicles and the unique opportunities of the dynamic enterprise. Knowledge of the industry’s legal obligations, regulations, and guidelines.
• Previous experience with budgeting, procurement and financial operations, supervision and training, facilities and asset management, and crisis management.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills to build trust and strong working relationships, effectively create and proofread documents and reports, and communicate to a diverse workforce.
• Solid technical knowledge and ability to understand technical designs, challenges, and risks to optimize autonomous vehicles operations
• Excellent skills in facilitating small and large groups and present on a wide variety of topics.
• Excellent skills in visual design for presentations, operating Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and utilizing audio/visual equipment for optimal delivery