Fleet Maintenance Manager

Job Description

Own every machine on the property

West Texas Aggregates is hiring a Fleet Maintenance Manager at our sand and gravel operation in Matador, Texas. We run wheel loaders, excavators, and the support vehicles that keep a pit moving. Right now maintenance happens because somebody notices. We want it to happen because somebody planned it, and we want that somebody to be you. This is the seat where you build the maintenance program for this site and then run it.

Be straight with yourself about this job first This is a working manager role. Today the crew is you.

You will turn the wrenches. You will do the services. You will be under a loader on a hot afternoon with nobody handing you tools. We are not going to dress that up, because the wrong hire here is someone who wanted a clipboard and a desk.

What makes it a manager's job is that nobody is telling you what to service or when. You decide. You build the schedule, you set the intervals, you order the parts, you keep the records, and you own whether this fleet is available tomorrow morning. That is a real mandate and most shops never hand it to anybody.

And it is not a crew of one forever.

We are growing fast, and we are adding equipment and shifts. The maintenance function grows with it. The person in this seat is the person who gets help first, then hires and leads it. If you want to build a shop from nothing and run it, this is that job.

What you will be responsible for:

The equipment

• Wheel loaders and excavators
• Support vehicles: water truck, service truck, pickups
• Ground engaging tools, cutting edges, bucket teeth, tires, and everything else that wears out in an abrasive pit
• Our haul trucks are contract haulers, not ours. This is a yellow iron seat, not an over-the-road fleet.

The work

• Build and run a preventive maintenance program: service intervals by hour meter, fluid and filter schedules, oil sampling, and a record of what was actually done
• Daily and weekly inspection routines, including teaching operators to do a real walk around instead of a glance
• Diagnose and repair hydraulics, electrical systems, drivetrain, undercarriage, brakes, cooling, and air conditioning
• Welding and fabrication for repairs, guards, wear plate, and whatever the pit needs made
• Keep an accurate asset and service record on every machine: hours, service history, repairs, costs
• Manage parts. Decide what is worth stocking on a site ninety minutes from Lubbock and what can wait on a delivery.
• Manage dealer and vendor relationships, warranty claims, and outside service calls
• Make the call on what you repair in-house, what goes to a dealer, and when a machine is costing more to keep than to replace, then bring us the numbers
• Keep the whole fleet MSHA compliant and safe to put an operator on

What we are looking for:

• Heavy equipment mechanic experience. Loaders, excavators, dozers, or comparable off-road iron. Cat, Deere, Komatsu, Volvo, Case, Hitachi, whatever you have worked on.
• Strong hydraulic and electrical diagnostic ability. On this site you are the diagnostic capability, so being able to read a schematic and trace a fault matters more than being able to swap a known part.
• Welding and fabrication skill
• Enough organization to run a PM schedule and keep records that mean something six months later. You do not need to love paperwork. You do need to do it.
• Willingness to work outdoors and in the field, because a machine that goes down in the pit does not come to a shop
• Judgment about cost. We want someone who thinks about what a repair costs against what the machine earns.
• Prior MSHA or aggregate experience is a plus but not required. We are Part 46 compliant and we train.

Adjacent backgrounds we welcome:

Heavy equipment field service techs, dealer techs from a…