What are the responsibilities and job description for the Transportation Safety Specialist position at Armstrong?
Under the direction of the Director of Operations, the Safety Specialist works to monitor, coordinate, and continuously improve the agency's safety compliance program.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :
- Coach and collaborate with Agency Safety Representatives (ASR) and Drivers to create short and long-term safety strategies.
- Responsible for assisting with driver qualifications, hiring process, and equipment files.
- Works to monitor the agency's Safety Performance Rating (SPR); sets and reinforces agency and van operator safety goals; develops incentives and / or recognition programs to measure and reward positive safety performance.
- Oversees compliance with all agency and UniGroup safety policies and procedures while adhering to Department of Transportation (DOT) safety regulations and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs).
- Monitors safety notifications such as Samsara ELD and camera events / alerts while producing and distributing safety statistical information and materials to assist agency and van operators in improving safety performance.
- Coordinates safety training, awareness, monitoring and problem resolution for the agency's van operators and associates, including developing policies and procedures around the safe dispatching of vehicles; review and audit of van operator logs; communication of strategies on how to properly estimate time needed to handle shipments; alternatives to deal with shipments in the event a van operator is out of hours; and on-call procedures during non-working hours to handle out-of-service issues, vehicle accidents and other major losses.
- Encourages agency staff and van operators to identify and report safety issues or concerns; identifies and works to resolve non-compliance problems, and makes recommendations for corrective action for van operators, up to and including termination of van operators or agency staff as appropriate.
- Assist Operations and Warehouse with scheduling, answering phone calls and greeting drivers in the dispatch office.
- Prepare Operations documents as needed for drivers.
- Any other duties as assigned by management.
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