Title:  Fleet Manager

Fleet Manager, Austin Texas/Hybrid

Role Responsibilities

• Define with the validation, function owner, workshop team the vehicle fleet and validation strategy.
• Organize with the project the definition of the vehicle needed, quantity, and the timing to ensure that all the fleet is ready on time for all the US activities.
• Ensure that the preparation of the vehicle is well taken into account, in term of equipment inside the car: Measurement laptop, logger, tracker, SW/HW definition, …
• Manage the sourcing of the service company and define the share of responsibility between them and Lotus Tech.
• Organize and lead the completed fleet execution for different purpose : data collection, validation or quality test.
• Define validation tactics and expedition route in taking lesson learn of the previous expedition.
• Estimate and respect the converged budget during the year. All over or under consumption shall be reported to management.
• Ensure a frequent benchmark of our direct competitor to identify interesting new direction trend.
• Report expedition or validation status and escalate blocking point to line manager and project manager

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required
• At least 5 years of experience in the field of vehicle fleet management.
• Experience in dealing with software traceability management.
• Experience in vehicle validation tool management and configuration (a minimum knowledge to use it is mandatory: Vector, BPlus, or DSpace or equivalent, Ubuntu, and Linux environment)
• Experience in conducting vehicle expedition.
• Strong leadership in evaluating and managing validation supplier to execute defined test cases. 
• Experience in global team execution.
• Enthusiasm and passion to drive and develop cars.
• Open minded, solution driven, highly motivated engineer.
• Excellent communicator with an open and structured mindset.
• Fluent in English, Notion in German and Chinese would be a plus.
• High level of engagement to solve any issues and drive issue resolution.
• Positive attitude, resolute and highly skilled to drive for results.
• Flexible regarding travels
• High integrity and trust in all activities and communication.