Fleet planner

Tasks

• Develop short-, medium-, and long-range fleet demand forecasts.
• Perform fleet sizing analysis using demand forecasts, route assumptions, cycle requirements, and customer needs.
• Identify anticipated equipment shortages, surpluses, and positioning imbalances and recommend corrective actions.
• Translate approved demand and production plans into actionable fleet requirements.
• Support maintenance planning governance to ensure the fleet remains safe, serviceable, and aligned with applicable regulatory, internal, and customer requirements.
• Coordinate with Site Supply Chain and Maintenance teams on day-to-day maintenance planning priorities, equipment readiness constraints, service scheduling needs, and escalation of availability risks.
• Partner with Engineering to develop and maintain spare-part bills of material for each Fleet SKU, including critical components, replacement parts, and planning assumptions required to support compliant fleet readiness.
• Coordinate with Procurement on sourcing strategy development for spare parts, in-house maintenance support, third-party service repairs, and supplier readiness required to execute maintenance plans.
• Support maintenance budget planning and approval processes by consolidating fleet condition insights, repair demand, spare-part requirements, service-provider assumptions, and cost drivers.
• Monitor maintenance planning performance, compliance readiness, and equipment availability trends to identify risks, drive follow-up actions, and support continuous improvement in fleet reliability.
• Monitor fleet inventory, equipment status, location, and availability across the network.
• Analyze idle, overdue, dormant, or unaccounted-for equipment and support recovery or repositioning actions.
• Maintain accurate planning records and support improvements to fleet master data and tracking quality.
• Coordinate priorities with operations and logistics partners when equipment availability may affect service.
• Partner with demand planning, supply planning, S&OP, Sales, and business teams to understand future requirements.
• Develop scenarios that evaluate the fleet impact of demand changes, route changes, customer onboarding, and network decisions.
• Support fleet capital planning by quantifying expected equipment gaps and opportunities to avoid unnecessary purchases.
• Document planning assumptions and maintain repeatable sizing methodologies.
• Develop and maintain fleet reports, planning models, and KPI dashboards.
• Analyze utilization, fleet turns, equipment availability, inventory accuracy, and forecast performance.
• Provide recurring performance summaries and ad hoc analysis for operational and leadership decisions.
• Support automation, standardization, and continuous improvement of fleet planning processes and tools.

Conditions & benefits

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business, Engineering, Operations Management, or a related field.
• Three or more years of experience in supply chain planning, logistics planning, fleet management, asset management, transportation, or a related operational environment.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills; experience with SAP, Power BI, forecasting tools, fleet tracking platforms, or comparable business systems is preferred.
• Ability to interpret data, validate assumptions, identify trends, build planning scenarios, and convert findings into clear recommendations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to coordinate across functions and explain planning results to varied audiences.