Director Of Terminal Tractor Refurbishment Facility The Director of Terminal Tractor Refurbishment Facility provides executive leadership over the operation, financial performance, and strategic direction of a terminal tractor refurbishment facility supporting heavy-duty, high-utilization fleet operations. This role is accountable for evaluating, refurbishing, and returning terminal tractors (yard spotters) to service in a manner that maximizes asset value, uptime, safety, and regulatory compliance while maintaining strict control over total cost of ownership. The Director establishes refurbishment strategy, approves asset go/no-go decisions, ensures adherence to EPA and emissions standards, and leads capital planning, P&L performance, and process implementation across the facility. This role ensures refurbishment investment does not exceed the fair market value (FMV) of a like unit available in the open market. Key responsibilities include owning end-to-end lifecycle strategy for terminal tractors, leading daily operations of the terminal tractor refurbishment facility, establishing standardized refurbishment scopes and GO/CONDITIONAL/NO-GO decision frameworks, approving refurbishment work scopes, capital expenditures, budgets, and production schedules, ensuring total refurbishment cost does not exceed the fair market value (FMV) of a comparable unit available on the market, owning facility-level capital budget and full P&L responsibility, developing and implementing standardized refurbishment, inspection, and quality-control processes, setting engine, powertrain, and emissions repair/rebuild/repower strategies, ensuring compliance with EPA, state, port authority, and customer environmental and safety standards, leading OEM, vendor, and service provider relationships, driving continuous improvement initiatives to reduce cycle time, rework, and repeat failures, leading safety, compliance, and risk management programs within the facility, partnering with Operations, Finance, Procurement, Safety, and Sustainability teams to align refurbishment strategy with business objectives, and presenting capital plans, financial performance, and fleet strategy to executive leadership. Financial & compliance accountability includes full ownership of refurbishment facility P&L performance, accountability for capital budget planning, forecasting, and execution, enforcement of refurbishment cost ceilings tied to fair market value benchmarks, oversight of emissions compliance, EPA standards, and audit readiness, and risk management related to asset valuation, regulatory exposure, and warranty recovery. Performance metrics include refurbishment cost per unit relative to fair market value of like equipment, refurbishment ROI versus replacement benchmarks, facility P&L performance versus budget, capital budget adherence and forecast accuracy, emissions and safety compliance rates, cycle time, throughput, and on-time delivery, and reduction in total cost of ownership and repeat failures.
Required qualifications include:
10+ years experience in heavy-duty fleet maintenance, equipment refurbishment, or industrial operations, 5+ years in a senior leadership or director-level role with financial accountability, deep technical knowledge of diesel engines, terminal tractors, and heavy-duty powertrains, strong understanding of emissions systems and EPA regulatory requirements, proven experience managing multi-million-dollar capital and operating budgets, demonstrated success leading operational teams and continuous improvement initiatives, and strong vendor negotiation, contract management, and cost-control skills.
