This position manages the Fleet Operations.

• Manages the city’s fleet operations.
• Researches and prepares specifications for the purchase of city-owned vehicles and equipment; reviews and makes purchase recommendations on received bids.
• Supervises and formulates the department budget; presents the budget to department director for review; submits the budget to the Finance Department upon approval.
• Manages the city’s fuel distribution and accounting system.
• Manages the city’s expendable supply warehouse.
• Coordinates meetings and vehicle/equipment demonstrations with manufacturing companies to ensure that the city purchases quality products.
• Selects, counsels, disciplines, evaluates, and recommends terminations of department employees.
• Advises the Public Works Director as well as other department directors on issues involving the city’s vehicle and equipment fleet.
• Prepares written reports for upper management, the Finance Department, and other internal and external organizations.
• Supervises the city’s outsourcing parts contract.
• Supervises and coordinates the city’s annual auction of surplus vehicles and equipment.
• Writes annual performance reviews on the Financial Operations Administrator as well as shop supervisors.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• Knowledge of city budgeting principles.
• Knowledge of government purchasing principles.
• Knowledge of supply warehouse distribution and inventory principles.
• Knowledge of accepted personnel practices, procedures, and policies, including supervision, training, and performance evaluation.
• Knowledge of parts distribution and accounting principles.
• Skill in preparing vehicle and equipment specifications.
• Skill in interpersonal relations.
• Skill in oral and written communication.
• Ability to operate a motor vehicle.
• Ability to work independently and with minimal supervision.

A Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Public Administration or related field is required. Experience sufficient to thoroughly understand the diverse objectives and functions of the subunits in the department in order to direct and coordinate work within the department, usually interpreted to require three to five years of related experience. Possession of or ability to readily obtain a valid driver's license issued by the State of Georgia for the type of vehicle or equipment operated.

The work is typically performed while intermittently sitting, standing, stooping, or walking. The employee occasionally lifts light objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

• Balancing – maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.
• Feeling – perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.
• Grasping – applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
• Handling – picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
• Hearing 1 – perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
• Kneeling – bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.
• Lifting – raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.
• Manual Dexterity – picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
• Mental Acuity – ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.
• Pulling - use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.
• Pushing – use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.
• Reaching – extending hands or arms in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion – substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
• Speaking – expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
• Standing – for sustained periods of time.
• Stooping – bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.
• Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word.
• Visual Acuity 1 - prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading.
• Visual Acuity 4 - operate motor vehicles/heavy equipment.
• Walking - on foot to accomplish tasks, long distances, or site to site.

The work is typically performed in an office, library, or computer room.