Department:

Safety Training & Risk Management

Job Description:

JOB SUMMARY: The Director of Driver Training is responsible for overseeing and implementing safety training programs, initiatives, protocols, and procedures across the organization. This role focuses on ensuring compliance with regulatory training requirements, while promoting a culture of safety within the training department.

This position plays a critical role in ensuring the safety training of fleet drivers, management, and other staff by fostering a culture of safety within the transportation industry. This position requires a proactive approach to safety management, strong leadership skills, and a commitment to continuous improvement processes.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, implement, and monitor training initiatives are delivered consistently across the company including educating staff on company policies, and procedures, ensuring training curriculum is in alignment with local, state, and federal regulations.
• Conduct regular internal audits and inspections to ensure training modules are developed, delivered, and verified routinely.
• Keep abreast of changes in laws and regulations related to transportation safety and implement necessary updates to training curriculum.
• Provide guidance briefings, campaigns, and other training aids on safe driving practices, accident prevention, and emergency response protocols.
• Collaborate with internal and external departments, vendors, and support teams to identify and implement best practices in the area of training and education.
• Prepare, audit, and guide onboarding materials for new drivers, graduate drivers, and existing fleet drivers consistently.
• Manages periodic training development quarterly, monthly, weekly for ongoing training campaigns.
• Audits materials and facilitators periodically to ensure consistent delivery of training curriculum.
• Maintains Safety training library topics, and campaigns for timely availability of materials being distributed to operations.
• Analyze trends, industry updates, and current event reporting to identify trends, and root causes that may require training materials to be modified or developed.
• Develop team-based strategies to maximize effective delivery of training materials by classroom facilitators.
• Monitor and assess the effectiveness of the training department staff to maximize organizational workflows.
• Liaise with regional operations managers, fleet supervisors, and other company stakeholders to promote a safety-first culture.
• Collaborate with the maintenance, driver services, safety, operations, and other internal departments to ensure training initiatives, campaigns, and periodic bulletins are delivered timely.
• Communicate safety training updates, best practices, and initiatives across the organization.
• Prepare reports and presentations to present safety training agendas to senior management.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES

Ensure compliance with company policies and assist in the development, scheduling, and distribution, of training programs to operations, drivers, and other employees. Periodically assess safety training programs, initiatives, and ensure that the company expectations for Safety are followed. Review periodic reports for assigned fleet in order to accommodate the training needs and areas of focus for each operations group. Participate in routine calls, meetings, committees, and huddles to discuss Safety training information with operational management. Communicate safety training updates, best practices, and initiatives across the organization. Organize and schedule classroom programs including but not limited to Driver orientation, Grad class, Defensive driving technique programs, simulator, specialized equipment, and other dedicated special projects. Present recommendations on safety training curriculum and assist in the coaching and training of such modules. Follow up with Operations and Safety Managers regarding the proper documentation of Safety training programs, training briefings and driver coaching are completed and documented timely. Provides guidance, training and expertise to operations regarding, company policy, industry best practices, regulatory compliance standards, safety analysis to ensure management is properly equipped with training needs to develop and sustain a thriving fleet safety culture.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Transportation Management, Safety Management, or a related field. Relevant work experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Proven experience in fleet safety management and training, preferably within the transportation or logistics industry.
• Strong knowledge of DOT regulations, OSHA standards, and other relevant safety training guidelines.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills, and proficiency in data analysis and reporting.
• Possess excellent public speaking skills, Strong communications skills - both oral and written
• Ability to work independently, to write reports, read and interpret business correspondence, and procedure manuals
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers and the public
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
• Must have the ability to communicate across all levels of the organization, be proficient in the use of general office equipment, computer, and various software applications
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations
• Proven record of making well-informed decisions in both routine and emergency situations
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form
• CSP, CSS Certifications recommended

SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Decision making
• Public speaking
• Communication
• Safety compliance
• Training and re-training
• Incident investigation
• Policy interpretation
• Constructive feedback
• Coaching
• Documentation
• Reporting, Graphs & Charts
• MS365

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or listen. The employee frequently is required to sit. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close, distance and color vision, depth perception, peripheral vision and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

• 5+ years of experience working in transportation, motor carrier experience, and/or experience with Motor carrier safety training programs.

EDUCATION:

• College degree and/or 2 years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience and 2 years of management experience

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In compliance with Federal and State equal employment opportunity laws, qualified candidates are considered for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, non-job-related disability, or any other protected group status.