Regional Manager - Safety

Quality Carriers, Inc. (QC®) is a premier transportation solutions company in North America. QC and its subsidiaries provide expertise in bulk liquid chemical, intermodal and dry bulk transportation, logistics management, tractor and trailer repair and maintenance, commercial tank wash services, and more. QC has built a reputation for safety, reliability, honesty, quality, and industry expertise by providing top of the line transportation solutions for industry leading manufacturers.

Job Summary:

The Manager Regional – Safety is responsible for ensuring compliance with all DOT regulations within the assigned service area for Quality Carriers, Inc. This role partners with company drivers, affiliate and independent contractors, as well as QC and affiliate employees, to ensure understanding and adherence to company policies and all applicable local, state, and federal safety regulations. The position requires regular travel to assigned terminals to conduct safety training, meetings, and audits of drivers and QC facilities.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Perform all tasks in a safe manner and in compliance with all local, state, and federal regulations and company policies.
• Review pending and upcoming changes to federal and state DOT regulations to ensure the company is prepared for future compliance requirements.
• Monitoring and addressing events captured on events recorders installed across the fleet.
• Implement, manage and monitor safety initiatives to promote a safe working environment.
• Candidate will have complete responsibility for safety inspections, DOT compliance, safety meetings, driver meetings, accident investigations and other safety related duties.
• Conduct ongoing safety audits, operations, equipment and processes to ensure compliance of Corporate Safety and governmental state and DOT policies and regulations.
• Help and insure compliance with doing inspections of company, affiliate and independent contractor’s equipment.
• Conduct training based on Safety needs/ trends and identify ways to improve the safety culture with QC affiliates and employees as well as drivers operating under the QC authority.
• Oversee drug testing program including regulated collection and processing of samples.
• Work with QC corporate, OSHA and Environmental Compliance staff to seek out the industries best practices and most effective and efficient methods to achieve operational excellence and safety objectives and goals.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Understand and have complete comprehension of all applicable state and federal DOT regulations.
• Have a vast knowledge of Hours of Service rules and regulations.
• Working knowledge of CSA and corrective methods to maintain compliance.
• Have strong communication skills and be able to effectively and professionally communicate with QC employees, affiliates and drivers.
• Experience in training and coaching drivers.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience preferred
• 5 years’ experience with DOT Regulations and transportation safety administration
• CDL preferred
• Experience with Hours of Service compliance and Electronic Logging Devices
• Knowledge of CSA and corrective methods to maintain compliance
• Knowledge and Experience with Onboard Event recorders/cameras
• Experience training CDL drivers required

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work: This is a full-time position, and days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Travel: Up to 50%

Work Environment:

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office and computer equipment.

Physical Demands:

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.

The employee will regularly and repetitively be required to talk, hear, sit, type, reach and grasp in a typical office environment.

This position may require standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping or crouching. The employee must frequently lift and/or move items up to 20 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Quality Carriers, Inc. provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.