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Job: Bilingual (French) Director Fleet, Eastern Canada (Montreal, Quebec, Maritimes Atlantic Canada)

– (Company owned trucks, Employee Drivers)

-Routing Optimisation, P&L, Driver Management

(Montreal , Quebec , Maritimes Atlantic Canada)

Location: Montreal, QC - 5 days on Site

Full Time Permanent

Base Salary: 165k – 185k; Bonus, benefits etc.

• Optimization of Routing
• Driver Management – Training, Coaching, Discipline, Performance management Scheduling
• Fuel Cost Optimization
• Routing TMS Optimization
• Company Owned Trucks
• Employee Drivers
• Routing, Load Planning TMS, Freight Consolidation, Driver Stops and similar.
• 5 days a week on Site

Our client is a very well-established asset based trucking company ( 150+ units) and have a job open for Bilingual (French) Director Fleet, Eastern Canada for this company owned trucks, Employee Drivers, to optimize routing & driver Management and complete operating costs and P&L for Montreal, Quebec, Maritimes Atlantic regions. The role is based in Montreal, QC area 5 days on site. This is a day shift role but on call off duty hours. All candidates should be fully bilingual -French /English, functionally and verbally. This is a role-up-the-sleeve work environment, and candidates will work directly with drivers, coach mentor and performance management, lead and develop the middle management teams of supervisors, compliance, trainers, dispatchers and analysts.

Bilingual (French) Director Fleet Trucking & Transportation, Eastern Canada will be fully responsible for optimizing Routing, City dispatch and long hauls be fully responsible for operating costs (fuel costs, budgets), driver compliance- manuals, trainings and similar, be responsible for on-road H&S, oversee dispatchers and schedulers yet manage the long-term strategic growth of the department through Continuous Improvement initiatives. You will analyze reports on routing KPIs through TMS, report as a cost center on spends, fuel costs, oversee load planning, routing in Eastern Canada, This is a Continuous Improvement, strategic, leadership yet hands-on role.

Bilingual (French) Director Fleet Trucking & Transportation will have minimum 8-10 years of senior people leadership fleet management (company owned trucks) / asset based (100+ units ) commodity transportation, budget management and operating costs management (MUST),employee driver management (100+). Strong experience in routing optimization , TMS within Eastern Canada(Montreal, Quebec, Martimes & Atlantic Canada) , some travel to the local hubs in Eastern Canada (30%). Good cross-border customs compliance, driver records compliance and similar is preferred. This is a role-up-the-sleeved work culture with a strong face-to-face presence with drivers and needs strong analytical skills, business acumen, fuel efficiencies, cost experience with Advanced Excel, TMS skills and similar. Bachelor’s degree highly preferred, courses in transportation, trucking, logistics, supply chain, P. Log, CITT, CCLP or similar highly preferred.Excellent English/French communication skills (MUST). Knowledge of local Eastern Canada geography MUST.

Qualified fully bilingual French candidates already in Montreal, QC managing employee drivers (100+) with strong operating cost experience, willing to work 5 days on-site are invited to forward their resumes in MS Word format to Preeti.Dayal@hays.com . Please write “Bilingual (French) Director Fleet, Eastern Canada” in the subject line of your e mail.

While we thank all applicants for your interest, only the most qualified candidates will be contacted due to volume of applicants.

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