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Job Description
Pay Range: $54,879 - $71,343 annual compensation
Job Posting Closing on: Thursday, February 27, 2025
Workdays & Hours: Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm; Some evening/weekend work required.
Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities, and much more.
The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of nearly 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability.
A Fleet Buyer position is available with The City of Fort Worth in the Property Management Department (PMD), which consists of four divisions including Facilities Management, Fleet Services, Real Property and General Services. PMD is a large, fast paced, and rewarding department that is responsible for a wide array of services including: maintenance of the majority of City facilities, maintaining the City’s fleet, land and property acquisitions including right-of-way and easement acquisitions. PMD is seeking to hire a qualified professional to fill the Fleet Coordinator/Buyer position responsible for receiving and in-processing all new vehicles and equipment procured year-round for all City of Fort Worth departments, and for managing the disposition of all city vehicles and equipment at the end of their useful life.
The Fleet Buyer position is vital in managing the age of the city fleet through timely replacement of qualified vehicles. The timely replacement of vehicles allows for reduced maintenance costs, lower fuel costs and improved employee morale. City fleet vehicles are essential to provide services to the citizens of Fort Worth. New vehicle acquisition improves efficiency of city services and timely response to citizen needs.
Minimum Qualifications:
- A Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Business or Public Administration, Purchasing, Materials Management, Economics, Accounting, or closely related field.
- No experience required.
- Possession of a valid driver’s license
Preferred Qualifications:
- A solid foundation of organizational and time management skills are essential, as the position will coordinate efforts between customer departments, vendor partners, City purchasing staff and other stakeholders within the City of Fort Worth.
- The Fleet Buyer/Coordinator should possess excellent customer relation and communication skills.
- Thorough knowledge of fleet operations and fleet asset management principles.
- Fundamental understanding of asset licensing and registrations with the proper agencies
- Technical knowledge of vehicle and equipment product lines, fleet management and telematics.
- Knowledge and understanding of vehicles and equipment specifications.
- Relevant fleet industry certifications including Certified Automotive Fleet Specialist CAFS, Certified Automotive Fleet Manager, CAFM.
- Computer skills: Microsoft Office Software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access); Fleet Management System/Software; Purchasing and Financial Software/Applications.
The Fleet Buyer job responsibilities include:
- Schedules and coordinates timely delivery of vehicles and equipment at City facilities with vendors and City Departments.
- Confers with departmental Fleet Coordinators to ensure new vehicles meet specifications at delivery.
- Coordinates purchasing activities with city purchasing, vendors, and fleet maintenance teams to expedite in-processing of all new vehicles (both replacement and additions to the fleet).
- Creates asset records, reviews, files and maintains vehicle in-processing documents, and maintains accurate records in the Fleet Management System.
- Administers all necessary titling, licensing and or registering of new and existing assets with the appropriate agency.
- Monitors, reviews and approves invoices for vehicles and equipment to ensure timely payment to vendors.
- Works with City Departments and contractors to dispose of citywide vehicles and equipment in a timely manner to maximize cost recovery through auction proceeds.
- Updates asset records, files and uploads vehicle disposition documents, and maintains accurate records in the Fleet Management System for vehicles and equipment retired from the fleet.
- Maintains contact with vendors; keeps informed of new products, market conditions, and current prices; monitors and evaluates vendor performance.
Conditions of Employment
The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.
The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.
Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only. -
ABOUT THE COMPANY
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City of Fort Worth
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The City of Cowboys & Culture is known for its Texas hospitality. The stunning and sprawling City of
Fort Worth is one of the fastest-growing cities in the U.S. And it’s no wonder — With great neighborhoods, scenic terrain and a rich history of arts and culture, paired with world-class opportunities for business and education, it’s not only fun to visit Fort Worth, it’s even more rewarding to call it home.Fort Worth truly offers all the benefits and amenities of a bustling metropolitan city, while keeping the small- town charm that keeps it unpretentious and charismatic in all the right ways. Designated as one of America’s “Most Livable Communities” by the Partners for Livable Communities, the city truly offers a melting pot of culture, commerce, community and yes, cowboys.
There are over a dozen remarkable districts full of treasured history among modern luxuries and unique places to have fun, making it the No. 1 tourist destination in Texas and welcoming more than 9.4 million visitors annually.
Being one of the fastest-growing among large cities in the country, Fort Worth has received multiple accolades, including number one downtown (Livability), and the second-best City in the nation for job seekers (Forbes). Our employees serve the needs of over 900,000 residents representing culturally diverse communities.
Exciting Growth & Future Development
One of the most fascinating aspects of the City of Fort Worth is its almost unprecedented growth over the past several years. Both in terms of population and industry, and as the 12th largest city in the United States, Fort Worth is truly booming — which presents both challenges and opportunities to truly develop this city in the right way. Every 30 minutes a new person moves to Fort Worth, so we’re looking for candidates who can embrace an evergrowing and changing environment and improve on it with solutions that work for the entire community of Fort Worth.
Mission
We are working together to build a strong community that others can look to as a pillar of unity and excellence. Through grassroots efforts within the community, and large scale construction and transportation plans that continue to add the infra- structure a growing city like Fort Worth needs, we’ll provide the public services our community requires to continually cultivate the unique city we call home.
Vision
Fort Worth’s vision is to be the most livable and best managed city in the country. We’ll do this by taking care of our citizens, implementing the highest quality standards in our schools, continually improving the neighborhoods we thrive in and the facets of the city that make our town so unique.
Benefits That Are Well Worth It
The City of Fort Worth continues to be dedicated to its employees’ well-being by providing competitive health benefits, a well-rounded wellness program and a Zero Accident Philosophy® workplace. All regular full-time employees and those employees who work 30–39 hours per week are eligible for all City of Fort Worth Benefits. Part-time employees who work 20–29 hours per week are eligible for dental, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, flexible spending accounts, 457 Deferred Compensation plan and other voluntary benefits.
Medical Program
The City offers two plan options through Meritain Health, an Aetna company.
The Health Center Plan – Offers employees and their family’s
primary health care services that are 100% completely free and unlimited. Employees can visit any one of the three City of Fort Worth Employee Health Centers and receive guaranteed same or next day appointments for sick visits. Also, services are available at any one of the five satellite locations that serves employees across the city.
The Consumer Choice Plan – Is offered to employees at no cost or low monthly premiums to cover eligible dependents and provides the financial benefits of a Health Savings Account (HSA).
• Preventative services are covered at 100% on both plans.
• Prescription Drug coverage including mail order pharmacy are also included.Vacation
Eligible for 3 weeks of vacation: After successful completion of probationary period (usually
6 months), employees may take time off for rest, relaxation, vacation, illness, religious observances, and personal business.Holidays
Available on the first day of employment, the city provides employees with paid holidays, including two personal holidays.
Wellness Program
The city’s Healthy Challenge Wellness Program rewards all full-time, benefit-eligible employees on the city’s health insurance. The Healthy Challenge Program utilizes a points system. Participants may earn points throughout the year (Jan. 1-Dec. 15) for completing specific program activities and participants can redeem points at the end of the year for a cash reward. By participating, individuals can earn $150, $200 or $250 by accumulating program points.
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