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When it began in 1924, Saia LTL Freight covered a two-state area: Louisiana and Texas. Today, Saia is one of the most successful carriers in the U.S., providing nationwide less-than-truckload (LTL), non-asset truckload, and third-party logistics services. Headquartered in Johns Creek, Georgia, Saia is a fast growing company offering industry leading benefits and opportunities to inspire every member of our team. With over 12,000 employees dedicated to their jobs and our customers, you may discover your own career path at Saia.

Under the general supervision of the Director of Industrial Engineering, the Equipment Analytics Manager is in charge of supporting the equipment pool integrity and maintaining equipment life cycles across the network. This position plays a critical role in equipment purchase and capital expenditures.

Responsibilities

• Maintains life cycle records on all company equipment, including but not limited to all tractors, trailers and gears.
• Determines equipment purchase needs, as well as the balance and turnover of equipment, based on the company’s current life cycle goals and potential growth.
• Establishes, maintains, and adjusts all terminal equipment pools.
• Establishes and maintains all assigned equipment to specific use and runs (i.e. line vs. city use, long vs. short mileage line runs), so that the life cycles can be maximized.
• Determines the right routings to reposition equipment and cut cost when appropriate action must be taken to maintain proper balance of pools.
• Ensures that underutilized equipment is redistributed to the network when business levels change for various reasons. 
• Establishes and maintains a vendor group that can offer assistance with piggy backing services, one-way trailer utilization, or relocation services to help reposition equipment.
• Determines needs and allocation of assets based on specific location issues.
• Performs additional duties as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Transportation management, supply chain, or related
• 5+ years of transportation experience with increasing responsibilities
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Access, and Word
• Skilled with data visualization software such as Tableau and Power BI
• Ability to manipulate data from a mainframe
• Ability to write programs as well as balance sheets to manage the fleet
• Ability to provide direction to terminals on fleet management issues
• Background in effective cost control measures that ensure quality processes
• Strong communication skills

Benefits
At Saia, your success is our success! That’s why we work hard to provide you with what you need to build an awesome career. We are committed to rewarding superior employee performance so that when you work hard, your achievements won’t go unnoticed.

Our Mission
At Saia Inc., success comes down to taking care of the people who matter most – our customers, our employees and our shareholders. The rest will take care of itself.

To safely drive our customers’ success with custom solutions built on the three pillars of our service-focused values: people, purpose and performance.

Saia is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.