Transportation Safety Supervisor

Transportation Safety Supervisor

Providing our customers with products they love is a big job, and our transportation partners help make that possible by driving an average of 12,000 deliveries a week and 72 million miles a year. Our transportation safety team provides training and customer service, maintains compliance with company policies and federal/state regulations, and ensures full investigation, review, and resolution recommendations related to accidents and citations. As a transportation safety supervisor, you'll provide frontline departmental leadership across multiple locations. Your daily focus will be on accident/citation review and resolution, and regulatory/policy compliance. Once you're eligible, you'll become an owner in the company, so we're looking for commitment, hard work, and focus on quality and customer service. Partner-owned means our most important resources--people--drive the innovation, growth, and success that make H-E-B the greatest omnichannel retailing company. Do you have a heart for people... skills to connect and relate with drivers to understand their concerns and provide recommendations/solutions to improve safety? Head for business... a sense of how safety compliance affects business? Passion for results... an ability to investigate and make decisions objectively? We are looking for: 3+ years of related experience; communication skills.

Key Responsibilities & Essential Functions:

• Safety/Compliance: Leads a team of transportation safety specialists who provide complete accident/citation review, investigation, and recommendation to comply with H-E-B policy. Interacts primarily with safety department partners, drivers, and operational leadership. Identifies potential transportation safety issues/impacts caused by regulatory changes. Facilitates company sponsored/sanctioned driver competitions at all levels. Attends transportation- and driver-related seminars, conferences, competitions. Participates in continuing education courses on safety, OSHA, transportation topics, and job skill enhancement. Provides support/responds to accidents, weather, or other emergency situations involving transportation. Conducts accident investigation/reconstruction to determine contributing factors of accidents and other safety-related incidents involving state, local, and federal authorities. Communicates accident findings and recommendations to leadership. Participates in driver accident/citation appeal process. Maintains H-E-B safety policies; ensures compliance with federal, state, local regulations. Monitors driver qualification files for accuracy and compliance. Ensures pre-employment, random, post-accident, or reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing is performed in compliance with company, legal, regulatory guidelines. Performs driver citation reviews/audits with motor carrier profile from USDOT, TXDPS. Serves as liaison officer for all federal, state, and local officials. Monitors/works with operations leadership on permissible driver hours in accordance with federal hours of service rules and regulations.
• Training/Customer Service: Implements innovative transportation safety plans and education programs; reviews them for quality, content, compliance, and consistency. Conducts regular safety meetings with drivers and transportation operations leadership. Represents H-E-B in state and local safety/transportation organizations. Serves as liaison between transportation and store operations.

Qualifications & Key Requirements:

Work experience: of experience in a transportation - law enforcement safety-related field - Experience with presentations and presenting to cross-functional teams - Experience in process improvement analysis and review - Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: Advanced knowledge of federal/state motor carrier regulations, including (OSHA, DOT, state, and EPA) - Strong verbal/written communication skills - Intermediate PC skills, including MS Office - Decision-making, reasoning, and analytical skills - Supervisory and influencing skills - Ability to manage multiple priorities and shift focus between tasks; attention to detail - Education: A related degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience - Licenses/Certifications: Completion of/current certification from approved safety/compliance organization - Physical Demands & Working Conditions: Function in a fast-paced, retail, office environment Work extended hours, including occasional evenings, weekends; sit for extended periods The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those a partner encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.