Manager, Fleet Acquisition & Disposition

Gordon Brothers • Austin, TX

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About The Position

Gordon Brothers Marketplace is hiring a Fleet Manager for its trading operations team. This is an asset-expertise role focused on fleet acquisition and disposition, not maintaining the company’s own trucks. The Fleet Manager will provide technical expertise to support whole-fleet purchases, assess equipment condition, estimate reconditioning costs, and help convert purchased fleets into saleable, profitable inventory.

The role supports the Head of Procurement by inspecting candidate fleets, reviewing maintenance and title records, modeling reconditioning costs, contributing condition-adjusted pricing input, and determining the best sales channel for each unit. The Fleet Manager will also oversee refurbishment triage and vendors, prepare condition reports, support inventory readiness, and maintain compliance awareness and documentation. Periodic travel for on-site fleet inspections is required.

Requirements

• At least 5 years managing a mid-size transportation fleet of trucks and trailers, including direct ownership of maintenance programs and asset lifecycle and replacement decisions.
• Deep working knowledge of commercial truck and trailer equipment, including specifications, configurations, common failure points, and factors that drive used-market value.
• Hands-on ability to assess equipment condition, including engines and hours, brakes, tires, frames, rust, and accident history.
• Experience with preventive maintenance programs, repair-versus-replace analysis, and total-cost-of-ownership or cost-per-mile modeling.
• Working knowledge of DOT and FMCSA compliance and inspection documentation.
• Strong vendor and shop management skills, including cost negotiation.
• Ability to travel periodically for on-site fleet inspections.
• Valid driver’s license.

Nice To Haves

• CDL.
• Experience in remarketing or the secondary market, such as auction, dealer, or wholesale work; alternatively, strong commercial instinct and desire to move from cost-center to revenue-side work.
• A network of relationships across fleets, dealers, and shops.
• Experience with fleet management software (CMMS), telematics, and condition-reporting tools.
• Familiarity with whole-fleet bulk transactions, appraisals, or asset disposition.

Responsibilities

• Conduct on-site condition inspections of candidate tractor, trailer, truck, and equipment fleets.
• Review maintenance histories, service records, and warranty status; flag chronic-repair units and deferred maintenance.
• Run VIN and history checks and identify title, lien, and documentation issues before purchase commitment.
• Estimate equipment condition compared with seller claims and document findings for the procurement team.
• Group candidate fleets into A, B, and C condition tiers to guide recovery strategy.
• Build reconditioning-cost models to estimate the cost of bringing units to marketable condition.
• Provide condition-adjusted pricing input to the Head of Procurement for negotiations.
• Recommend whether units should be sold retail or wholesale, or parted out or scrapped.
• Provide condition data for fleet appraisals and purchase-price decisions.
• Maintain knowledge of secondary-market pricing for used trucks, trailers, and equipment, and advise on resale value by specification and configuration.
• Direct refurbishment triage, including which units are reconditioned, to what standard, and at what cost.
• Manage reconditioning vendors and shops, including scope, quality, cost, and warranty enforcement.
• Prepare condition reports and condition grades for listings.
• Support staging, preparation, and sale readiness of purchased inventory.
• Maintain awareness of DOT and FMCSA compliance requirements relevant to condition and saleability assessments.
• Keep records audit-ready and manage title and documentation flow for purchased fleets.
• Build and maintain relationships with fleets, dealers, shops, and remarketing channels.

Benefits

• Very competitive total compensation package, including base salary and bonus plan.
• Health insurance.
• Dental benefits.
• Generous 401(k) match.
• Time off benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed