Fleet Manager – Detainee Transport Operations
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Job Description
Fleet Manager overseeing government-contracted detainee-transport vehicles across Texas. Managing maintenance, compliance, vendors, deployments, and operational readiness with 75% travel.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee the vehicle fleet supporting a government-contracted detainee transportation program throughout Texas, with limited operations extending into New Mexico and Oklahoma
- Direct day-to-day fleet operations
- Manage preventative maintenance programs, repairs, inspections, and emergency responses
- Maximize vehicle reliability and minimize downtime
- Maintain accountability for all vehicles and equipment
- Ensure adherence to manufacturer guidelines, safety standards, and government contract requirements
- Monitor fleet utilization and coordinate vehicle assignments and regional deployments
- Ensure adequate vehicle availability for transportation missions
- Manage vendor relationships and evaluate repair estimates
- Control maintenance expenditures and assist with budgeting
- Analyze performance metrics to guide vehicle replacement strategies
- Oversee specialized transport equipment configurations
- Investigate accidents and breakdowns
- Maintain documentation for audits
- Provide regular status updates to program leadership
Requirements:
- Minimum of 5 years of progressive fleet management experience
- Experience preferably in transportation, government contracting, law enforcement, corrections, detention, security, or a similar operational environment
- Experience managing large or geographically dispersed vehicle fleets
- Experience overseeing preventative maintenance programs, repair schedules, vendor relationships, and operational readiness
- Strong knowledge of DOT regulations, federal and state transportation laws, and safety standards
- Rigorous maintenance recordkeeping to support government contracts and audits
- Familiarity with secure or detainee transportation safety requirements
- Familiarity with specialized security equipment, fleet management software, GPS/telematics, and performance metrics tracking
- Excellent organizational, communication, and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to coordinate across teams and analyze cost data
- Ability to handle extensive travel throughout Texas
- Ability to pass all required government background investigations and suitability screenings
- Ability to work in extreme cold or hot weather conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and loud noise
- Ability to remain stationary, stand, push, pull, climb, kneel, crawl, balance, squat, bend, and reach
- May occasionally be required to lift and/or move up to 49 pounds
Benefits:
- Full-time salaried exempt position
- Remote work with travel throughout Texas and surrounding states














