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Senior Director, Grocery Transportation & Fleet Maintenance

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Join Casey's Supply Chain team as our Senior Director of Grocery Transportation and Fleet Maintenance! As the Senior Director of Grocery Transportation and Fleet Maintenance, you'll lead our multi-site grocery transportation and fleet maintenance operations across our 19 state footprint. In this role, you'll be responsible for driving operational excellence, optimizing fleet performance, and ensuring compliance and safety across refrigerated and dry fleets. The ideal candidate thrives in a distributed environment, brings deep logistics expertise, and champions a culture of continuous improvement and service.Key Responsibilities Include

• Leadership & Team Development: Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team across transportation, maintenance, compliance, and parts. Oversee hiring, training, performance management, and career development.
• Strategic Fleet & Asset Management: Optimize asset placement and utilization across multiple facilities. Lead maintenance programs to ensure fleet uptime, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
• Operational Excellence & Network Optimization: Drive route efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance service levels. Implement SOPs and continuous improvement initiatives across all sites.
• Financial & Vendor Oversight: Lead annual fleet budgeting (OPEX & CAPEX), variance analysis, and cost forecasting. Manage vendor relationships and negotiate contracts to improve performance and reduce lifecycle costs.
• Compliance & Safety: Ensure adherence to FSMA, OSHA, DOT, and other regulatory standards. Partner with Safety Manager to maintain a clean, compliant, and safe work environment.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Align transportation strategies with supply chain, store operations, and compliance teams. Communicate company initiatives and performance goals across all levels.

CompensationStarting pay range: $151,500 - $216,400. Actual pay may vary based on Casey's assessment of the candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), related experience, education, and qualifications. Other factors impacting pay include local prevailing wages and internal equity. This position is eligible for an annual cash bonus based on company performance and an annual equity grant in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). Our full salary range for this role does extend beyond the hiring range listed, allowing team members the opportunity to continue to grow within the company.What you can expect when you join the Casey's Team:

• A transformative culture putting service first and taking pride in caring for our guests, our communities, and each other.
• Opportunities to use cutting edge technologies and enterprise-wide collaboration to enable our strategy and drive world class service.
• We're here for families! Great benefits including choices in medical plans, dental, vision, life insurance, employee stock purchase program, charitable giving programs, parental leave and an onsite Child Development Center.
• Competitive pay, 401k company match up to 6%, vacation & sick time, paid holidays, volunteer time, and an onsite cafeteria.
• Dress for your day dress code, jeans are welcomed!
• The opportunity to work for a big company that has not lost our small company feel. Our senior leadership team is engaged, involved and accessible!

What are you waiting for? Come be a part of a company that is growing, transforming and is here for good!Requirements

• Proven Leadership: 7-10+ years in transportation/fleet leadership, with experience managing across multiple locations.
• Refrigerated Fleet Experience: Strong preference for candidates with reefer fleet background in the food or grocery industry.
• Strategic Thinker: Ability to balance day-to-day operations with long-term planning and network design.
• Operational Expertise: Deep understanding of route building, asset deployment, and fleet maintenance best practices.
• Excellent Communicator: Skilled and experience with managing leaders, influencing stakeholders, and driving alignment across teams.
• Travel may be required up to 35% of the time. Must have the physical ability to drive a vehicle for job-related travel and possess a valid driver's license.

Seniority level

• Seniority levelDirector

Employment type

• Employment typeFull-time

Job function

• Job functionManagement and Supply Chain
• IndustriesFood and Beverage Services and Retail

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