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Safety Supervisor – New England Region
Headquartered in Massachusetts, Beacon Mobility is a growing family of companies committed to serving the diverse needs of our customers. Experienced, compassionate, and inspired, we take pride in our ability to create customized, mobility-based solutions that empower people to get where they need to go. Our purpose is simple - MOBILITY WITHOUT LIMITS: Transporting people to live, learn, and achieve. We are dedicated to providing those we serve with the opportunities, resources, and support to confidently move ahead. We support safe, compassionate, and inclusive environments that provide our communities with the mobility solutions they need to flourish and succeed. Backed by nearly 70 years of experience, Beacon Mobility operations can be found in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Minnesota providing support to 10,000 employees in 1,300 communities through the delivery of Paratransit and School Bus services leveraging a fleet of 6,500 vehicles.
Reporting into the Vice President of Operations, the Safety Supervisor champions and provides tactical hands-on support to a location in the implementation and execution of the Safety Program. This position is responsible to ensure driver qualifications requirements are satisfied and maintained, driver training and development programs are implemented and executed, accident and injury response protocols are followed, and environmental health and safety challenges are appropriately escalated. This position will partner with the regional safety support team, utilizing KPI’s and predictive analytics derived from real time vehicle telematics and driver monitoring tools to ensure regulatory compliance and safety performance standards are achieved and upheld.
The candidate for this role requires successful experience in driver training and familiarity with DOT and DMV regulated programs. Our ideal candidate will be flexible and result oriented with the ability to communicate effectively, and consistently execute the relative processes.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Driver qualifications oversight – Reviews and communicates driver exceptions or impending expirations of regulatory or policy compliance factors to operations leadership ensuring in-service operators meet minimum requirements.
- Driver training and development support – Provides hands on support with new driver training & orientation; establishes leadership role in the delivery of safety meetings and celebrations; partners with operations to deliver driver coaching leveraging vehicle telematics systems and internal coaching model & process.
- Accident and injury response - Provides immediate on scene response and initial reporting of crash/injury/crisis events.
- Environmental health and safety support – Identify and escalated environment hazards that have a likely potential for harm to operations or maintenance leadership for correction and follow through.
- Audits & Inspections support – Assist and support on site and virtual inspections and audits with consistently high levels of accuracy.
Qualification Requirements:
- Significant success in commercial passenger transportation safety, education, and training
- Experience providing coaching and mentorship
- Broad understanding of safety policies and transportation best practices
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to travel up to 75% of the time within the assigned location(s), with periodic travel outside of the assigned region (as needed)
- Maintenance of all regulatory requirements to satisfy driving role within the assigned location(s)
Preferred qualifications:
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, etc.) and transportation related software and telematics
- Previous success in supporting regulatory audits and investigations to include FMCSA, FTA, DOT and OSHA
Beacon Mobility is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.
This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Beacon Mobility makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.
Beacon Mobility is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.
This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Beacon Mobility makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.
NRT Bus is a company that cares. Our positive attitude is reflected in our management style and in our employees’ attitude, starting with our staff, mechanics and office professionals.
NRT Bus provides home-to-school bus transportation for students in areas throughout Eastern Massachusetts, Central Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire.