Fleet Operations Manager, Autonomous Vehicles

The annual starting salary for this position is $65,000 annually. Factors that may affect starting pay within this range include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate. Here at Avis Budget Group, you’ll be joining a team of 25,000 driven people performing with purpose. Together, we’re moving the future of transportation forward through innovative, customer-focused solutions. Our culture is performance-driven — we encourage and support each other to be at our best through leadership, training, tools, and rewards. We’re proud to make a positive difference in the lives of our colleagues, customers, and the communities where we operate. Leveraging its core strengths in large scale fleet management, Avis Budget Group has entered into a strategic partnership with the leader in self-driving technology, to launch and scale a fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Dallas.  This new strategic partnership reflects the Company’s ambition to grow beyond travel and actively shape the future of mobility.  Sound your speed? Come join our family.    As the Fleet Operations Manager, AV Fleet you will oversee daily fleet operations for autonomous ride-hailing vehicles. Your work will focus on leading a team to ensure operational excellence in servicing, cleaning, charging, and calibration of autonomous vehicles. The Fleet Operations Manager ensures that all vehicles meet readiness, safety, and quality standards while maximizing fleet utilization (uptime) while ensuring customers in the Dallas market have access to clean and ready autonomous vehicles when needed. What You’ll Do : Lead all aspects of fleet servicing, including, but not limited to, cleaning, charging, and calibration for the autonomous ride-hail vehicles to ensure readiness, safety, and compliance with established standards. Maintain oversight of vehicle dispatch, movement, and staging within the applicable location  to maximize fleet uptime and availability. Oversee diagnostics to identify and address “no hail” states, coordinating remote actions or on-site fleet response teams to restore serviceability. Direct daily operations within the applicable locations, optimizing resource allocation and workflow efficiency to achieve performance, productivity, and uptime goals. Manage a team of Fleet Associates, Lot Coordinators, and related staff to ensure high service levels and continuous improvement. Develop, communicate, and implement daily operational plans consistent with ABG and the partner’s business objectives. Forecast, budget, and manage key operational metrics (including, but not limited to, fleet utilization, labor productivity, turnaround times, and material costs). Conduct data analysis to drive continuous process improvement and reduce downtime. Collaborate with the partner’s product, engineering, IT, and other departments to prioritize the workload to accomplish the needs of the business. Partner with ABG operations, IT, facilities, procurement and other departments to leverage scale and expertise. Manage and maintain vendor relationships and workload assignment, ensuring established service levels and standards are met and that all vendor management policies and procedures are followed. Assist with all areas of the employee lifecycle including hiring, onboarding, training, recognition, motivation, development and performance management to enable a high-performance culture. Manage all facets of employee relations, including, but not limited to, implementing HR policies and practices in a consistent and fair manner, in accordance with Company policies and partnering with Human Resources Business Partners where appropriate. Provide a safe work environment by ensuring all safety policies and practices are followed and maintained, partnering with Safety where appropriate. What We’re Looking For: Bachelor’s degree preferred (or equivalent in education, training or experience)