MacDonald’s Transport and Warehousing, a well-established fast growing group of companies, with an equal opportunity policy, has the following vacancy: Operations Fleet Manager

Skills and Qualifications:
• The successful candidate must have Grade 12 with 3-5 years’ experience in a Supervisory / Managerial role and knowledge of the long-Distance Transport industry.
• A Relevant tertiary qualification in the logistic field will be an added advantage.
• Good, interpersonal, leadership, motivation planning, and communicating (verbal & written) skills as well as bilingualism will be essential.

Key Accountabilities:
• Management of all assets and staff under your control and the meeting of objectives set in the budget process, reporting to management any negative deviances in revenue and or cost and putting together action plans with responsibilities and timelines should the business unit under your control not meet the budgeted requirements objectives and the service requirements of our customers
• Managing and ensuring that all managers under your control plan vehicle routes and conduct load planning, track vehicles hourly, communicate with drivers to ensure that instructions are conveyed to meet company and customer objectives, all vehicles are equipped with the necessary equipment to transport customer products and that managers keep schedules of equipment on vehicles together with replacement schedules to minimize loss, record keeping and maintaining of schedules on standing times.
• Managing and ensuring that all managers under your control download fuel consumptions by vehicle and investigate the causes in deviances in fuel consumption, counsel drivers with excessive fuel consumption with regards to excessive speeds, excessive idling and required training identified and action taken.
• Assets and staff comply with all statutory and legal requirements.
• Accident / Incident investigation and submission of all documentation
• Ensuring that all equipment / machinery is serviced within the allowed service intervals, planned COF’s updated and downtime is minimized.
• Ensure that all POD’s are received, loads are captured and documentation is handled in such a manner that invoicing to and payment by the customer is not delayed.
• Maintaining of a high level of discipline, within the operations.
• Preparation and submission of leave schedules in such a manner as to not effect customer requirements.
• Administrative duties, document control and solving of queries
• Management of Drive-Cam as well as Tracking reports.
• Deadline Driven
• Ensuring monthly management reports.
• Must be willing to work long hours and on weekend if and when required.

Applications close on 28 March 2017.
You can assume that your application is unsuccessful if no correspondence is received within 3 weeks from closing date.