Temporary Vehicle Preparation Assistant - Fleet Management - UTK

The Vehicle Preparation Assistant ensures that rental vehicles are clean and reliable for campus users. Daily operations will include washing, vacuuming, and sanitizing vehicles. This position will also refuel vehicles, as needed. And will perform monthly inspections for vehicle safety related items.

• Primary responsibilities will include detailing vehicles. This means hand washing of exterior, vacuuming of interior, and sanitizing high touch points.
• Monthly Inspections include checking vehicle tires for condition and pressure, light bulb operations, fluid level checks, etc.
• Miscellaneous tasks to include refueling, collecting lost & found items, moving vehicles, and checking parking lot for trash.

Required Qualifications

• Education: High school diploma, or GED
• Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
  • valid driver’s license
  • Reliability
  • ability to work in a physically active, outdoor environment

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without need now or in the future for sponsorship for employment visa status.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience: Experience with detailing vehicles

Position Details

• Location: Fleet Management – (1201 U.T. Drive, Knoxville, TN)
• Onsite, Hybrid, or Remote : Onsite
• Position Pay Rate/Range: $16/hour
• Hours: Monday – Friday; 830am – 430pm
• Duration of Temporary Assignment: 24 months

About The Department

Fleet Management is here to provide travel options for our campus staff and faculty. We manage a rental pool of 100+ vehicles that we offer for daily, weekly, or monthly rentals. The onsite pool consists of sedans, mini-vans, 12-passenger vans, and trucks. And our goal is to make travel simpler, more efficient, and enjoyable for our faculty and staff.

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has shaped leaders, changemakers, and innovative thinkers since its founding in 1794. The university is home to more than 38,000 students and 10,000 statewide employees—the Volunteers—who uphold the university’s tradition of lighting the way for others through leadership and service.

UT Knoxville offers over 900 programs of study across 14 degree-granting colleges and schools. As Tennessee’s flagship land-grant university, its footprint spans the entire state. The university holds the highest Carnegie classification for research activity and has deep partnerships with industry leaders and the US Department of Energy’s largest multidisciplinary laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The Knoxville campus serves and recruits for UT Knoxville, including the Institute of Agriculture and the Space Institute, as well as the UT Institute of Public Service.

UT Knoxville considers its employees its number one asset. With values that focus on work-life balance, compensation, and innovation leadership, all Vols are supported to advance professionally. Employees have access to career development and coaching, continued education, and an extensive list of development and training possibilities. The Volunteer employee experience implements structures and practices that attract and retain a diverse community and that support a culture where everyone matters and belongs.

The university holds a strong commitment to its land-grant mission of learning and engagement, with a tradition of service and leadership that carries that Volunteer spirit throughout the state and around the world. It has been ranked nationally as “Best Employer for New Graduates,” “One of America’s Best Large Employers,” and “Best Workplace for Women,” and has been designated as “Best Place for Working Parents” by Forbes Magazine.

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