Heavy Equipment & Truck Maintenance Manager

The Heavy Equipment and Truck Maintenance Manager leads the inspection, preventive maintenance, repair, and availability of the company’s heavy equipment, commercial trucks, trailers, and related machinery. This hands-on position manages daily shop priorities, supports maintenance personnel, coordinates outside service, and ensures that equipment is maintained safely, efficiently, and cost-effectively in a fast-paced industrial environment. ***Essential Duties and Responsibilities*** · Supervise, schedule, coach, and support diesel mechanics, equipment technicians and other maintenance employees. · Plan and prioritize preventive maintenance, inspections, repairs, breakdown response, and emergency service work. · Perform and assist with hands-on diagnostics and repairs when needed to support safe operations and reduce downtime. · Maintain heavy equipment including material handlers, excavators, wheel loaders, skid steers, forklifts, cranes, shredders, and support equipment. · Oversee maintenance and repair of Class A trucks, roll-off trucks, tractors, trailers, and other commercial vehicles. · Maintain preventive-maintenance schedules based on operating hours, mileage, manufacturer recommendations, and equipment condition. · Assign work orders, monitor repair progress, verify completed work, and communicate equipment status to operating departments. · Maintain accurate service histories, inspection records, labor entries, parts usage, and vendor documentation. · Manage parts inventory and coordinate purchasing with approved vendors while controlling labor, parts, tire, and outside-repair costs. · Evaluate repair-versus-replacement decisions and make clear, fact-based recommendations to management. · Coordinate warranty work, dealer service, mobile repair, towing, and other outside services. · Maintain a clean, organized, and safe maintenance shop and enforce proper tool-control and housekeeping practices. · Coordinate and participate in emergency repairs and after-hours response when required. ***Required Qualifications*** · At least 5 years of hands-on experience maintaining heavy equipment, diesel trucks, or industrial machinery. · At least 2 years of previous supervisory, lead-mechanic, or shop-management experience. · Strong working knowledge of diesel engines, hydraulics, electrical systems, brakes, suspensions, drivetrains, and emissions systems. · Ability to read service manuals, wiring diagrams, hydraulic schematics, and diagnostic information. · Experience using computerized diagnostic equipment and maintenance-management systems. · Strong troubleshooting, organization, communication, and decision-making skills. · Ability to manage competing repair priorities in a fast-paced operating environment. · Working knowledge of workplace safety procedures, DOT maintenance requirements and relevant regulatory standards (i.e. OSHA). ***Preferred Qualifications*** · Experience in scrap-metal, recycling, waste, construction, trucking, or demolition industries. · Technical-school training or certification in diesel, automotive, or heavy-equipment repair. · Experience maintaining material handlers, mobile shears, grapples, shredders, or recycling-processing equipment. Physical and Work Requirements · Ability to stand, walk, bend, kneel, climb, and work in and around heavy equipment for extended periods. · Ability to lift and carry up to 50 pounds regularly and heavier items with assistance or approved lifting equipment. · Ability to work indoors and outdoors in varying weather, temperature, noise, dust, and industrial conditions. · Ability to safely use hand tools, power tools, diagnostic equipment, ladders, and lifting devices. · Ability to wear all required personal protective equipment. · Availability for early mornings, evenings, weekends, overtime, and emergency call-ins based on operational requirements. Pay: From $100,000.00 per year Benefits: * 401(k) * 401(k) matching * Dental insurance * Health insurance * Paid time off * Vision insurance Work Location: In person