Fleet Executive : LDO
Blue Dart
Job Title
Executive – Fleet
Function
Operations
Reporting to
Operations Manager
- Purpose
- Key Responsibilities
Financial
- Ensure adherence to budgeted fleet costs for the area/location
- Work closely with Area/locational operations team for maximizing utilization for all feeder and milk runs; Support National operations team in maximizing utilization of all network vehicles
- Identify fleet vendors in the area/location and work closely with the Area/locational Procurement & Real Estate Head in vendor evaluations, rate negotiations and empanelment; Ensure negotiation of best possible vehicle hire rates for Blue Dart
- Ensure procurement of vehicles for all feeder and milk runs as per the requirements from empanelled vendors; Also support Head – Rail & Fleet Management in hiring of network vehicles in the area/location
- Maintain a database of fleet vendors and brokers for contingency requirements; Also track the day to day market rate for different vehicles for different locations
- Analyze past volumes and future volume projections to identify the size of vehicles required on various feeder and milk-run routes
- Monitor daily allocation of vehicles for various runs along with the area/locational operations teams
- Approve the market hiring of vehicles as and when required; Work towards minimizing the market hiring of vehicles through effective planning
- Administer a comprehensive vehicle maintenance and repair program for all vehicles (company owned and contractual)
- Ensure branding of all vehicles as per the company norms
- Ensure adherence to regulatory compliances like fitness certificates, driver licenses, statutory compliances, etc. for all vehicles; Conduct periodic audits to check the same
- Ensure optimum allocation of staff (drivers, loaders, etc.) for network runs and feeder runs
- Ensure conduct of regular safety trainings and briefings for drivers
- Key Result Areas and Key Performance Indicators
Key Result Areas
Key Performance Indicators
Ensure cost effective procurement of fleet in the area/location
- Adherence of fleet procurement cost per kilometer within set threshold level
- % reduction in market hire costs
- % adherence to timelines for availability of fleet (network, feeder and milk-runs)
- % Fleet utilization of fleet in the area/location (network, feeder and milk-runs)
- Number of new vendors empanelled (as per plan) for ground fleet and rail
- Conduct of periodic evaluation of Vendor Performance as per defined timelines
- Empanelled vendor performance as evaluated by Air and Ground operations
- Conduct of periodic vehicle audits in terms of necessary paperwork, PUC, Driver licenses, road worthiness etc)
- Conduct/ delivery of safety trainings & briefings as per plan for vendor staff
- % Deviations from branding guidelines (as per branding audit)
- Adherence to Performance Management system timelines and guidelines