Fleet Auditor

About Us

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a “Bridgestone West” strategic region. This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. BSAM and BSEMEA are subsidiaries of Bridgestone Corporation, globally headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products and solutions to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.

About the Role

Job Purpose

To provide on the ground operational support for Bridgestone Ireland direct fleet contracts. This role would liaise with the national account manager, and will report to the commercial operations manager, Bridgestone Mobility Solutions, North Region

Responsibilities:

 Dealer Audits:

To visit key dealers on a regular cycle and complete mini audits following the audit criteria. To discuss ay shortcomings with the dealers and agree an action plan and schedule to rectify.

Casing Control:

To visit dealers and review casings removed from Fleets and to ensure they meet the required standard and have not been removed from outside of policy.  The key data is identified, recorded and reported on the prescribed format.

Fleet Auditing:

To carry out tyre audits at nominated key fleets and report back fleet condition to the national account manager. To investigate any anomalies that you find as a result of the fleet audit, and find a solution to prevent any re-occurrence

Fleet inspection compliance

Responsible for achieving regular high kpi’s of fleet inspections with key fleets, utilising the Bridgestone Partner network, and where necessary completing inspections yourself. To compile inspections completed by all parties for fleets and share data with Bridgestone national account manager.

Fleet Maintenance work:

To ensure good fleet tyre management is maintained.  A “to do list” would be created from the auditor’s written report and passed to depots for corrective actions on a monthly basis.

Tyre Policy Adherence:

An integral part of good fleet management will be the auditing of the companies fitment and tyre pressure policies, including third-party and breakdown fitments.

This position may require you to work occasionaly weekends and at unsocial hours, i.e. early mornings and late evenings.

Qualifications & Experience Required

Education, Master, other certification:

• Leaving Cert and or equivalent.

Experience (years):

• 3+ years experience in working with tyres
• Commercial tyre knowledge. 

Technical Skills:

• A good understanding of tyre products
• Good IT skills especially Excel and Word.
• Full valid driving licence

Languages Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal English skills required.

Soft/Behavioral Skills:

Excellent attention to detail.

Managing conflict.

Organised and methodical.

Customer focused.

What we offer

At Bridgestone, what really matter is to foster co-creation opportunities and empowering you to be creative and curious to make mobility safer, more efficient, and more sustainable for future generations. Whatever role you fill, when you represent Bridgestone, you are a valued teammate, and part of our larger mission to “Serve Society with Superior Quality”, for that, we offer you more than just a competitive payment; we will provide you:

• A supportive and engaging onboarding experience to ensure a smooth transition into our team.
• The opportunity to develop and grow, through training and regular mentorship.
• Corporate Social Responsibility activities.
• A truly global, dynamic and challenging work environment.
• Agility and work/life effectiveness and your long-term well-being.
• A diverse and inclusive team.

Disclaimer

We are committed to create an even more inclusive culture that advances equity, embraces individuality, and helps our increasingly diverse teammates, customers, and communities thrive, by providing equal opportunities in employment. This means that all job applicants and members of staff will receive equal treatment and that we will not discriminate on grounds of gender, marital status, race, ethnicity, color, nationality, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, religion or age.