Fleet Safety, Compliance, and Training Specialist

7-Eleven is an iconic family of brands with over 86,000 locations, surpassing every retailer in the world. We revolutionize convenience, restaurants and fuel through cutting edge innovation — working hard to be the customer's first choice. 7-Eleven empowers our employees to "activate awesome" and make a meaningful impact in their stores and communities every day. If you're ready to grow, lead and make a difference, come join our team and help shape the future of convenience.

The Fleet Safety, Compliance, and Training Specialist provides safety management oversight for the SWTO Fleet Operations team by supporting our comprehensive fleet safety management strategy, while ensuring compliance with all applicable regulations and Company policies and practices.  Collaborates with Fleet Operations partners for management and leadership of the daily safety, compliance, and training activities.  Responds to and supports safety incident management and coordinate efforts to mitigate damages, claims and injuries.

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES:

• Promote a positive safety culture which recognizes and rewards safe behaviors and safe work practices.
  • Reinforce the Company’s Fleet Safety, Compliance, and Training programs through a behavior-based safety mindset
  • Leverage technology to support behavior-based safety performance including Virtual Risk Manager, vehicle telematics, and other data used to create driver risk profile with focus on safety incident prevention
• Provide timely and proper incident response, management and reporting of commercial motor vehicle crashes by working closely with Fleet Operations, Risk Management, Legal teams, and all other Corporate (Safety, Asset Protection, Environmental, Risk Management, Worker’s Compensation) and regulatory stakeholders
  • Direct Company activities associated safety incident management oversight; investigation, root cause analysis, and administrative requirements including safety incident cost claims
• Oversight and responsibility for all Safety Performance Reviews and CMV Driver Qualification Policy that all CMV drivers meet internal qualifications standards
  • Collaborate with HR and Fleet Operations in review process
  • Provide support in performance improvement plans for CMV drivers that meet criteria 
• Oversee and responsible for regulatory compliance with designated industry agencies; USDOT, FMCSA, PHMSA, OSHA and other federal, state, and local authorities
  • Full oversight and responsibility of for FMCSA’s Safety Management System (SMS) - Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories (BASICs)
    • Ensure system data is correct and communicate results and trends with operational stakeholders
    • Work collaborative with all internal stakeholders to drive improved results
  • Maintain and update all driver qualification (DQ) files including required regulatory training and credential management

• Act as primary point of contact for Compliance Reviews, Interventions and all other inquiries. Ensure all Fleet Operations partners are knowledgeable and performing on Company’s Safety Management Program; including
  • Train all Fleet Operations partners to properly conduct and oversee Fleet Safety Observation Program including management of Direct Safety Observations (DSO), Job Safety Observations (JSO) and Vehicles Safety Inspections (VSI)
  • Stop Work Authority

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree preferred or associate degree in Logistics or Industrial Safety
• YEARS OF RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE: 3+ years
• YEARS OF MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE: NA
• CERTIFICATIONS / LICENSES: Certified Safety Professional (CSP) preferred, and will consider related safety work experience with commitment to pursue Certifications

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• Working knowledge of federal, state, and local fleet and safety regulatory requirements (USDOT, FMCSA, OSHA, PHMSA, etc.).
• Knowledge and experience with transportation systems and technology including but not limited to: Electronic driver logs (ELD), Driver Video Systems, Trimble Fleet Mobility (aka – PeopleNet), TMW, Transportation Management Systems (TMS), Bendix Fusions, Samsara, etc.
• Strong leadership, collaboration, analytical, influential, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
• Must be results-oriented with the ability to drive continuous improvement within the Safety organization.
• Ability to communicate clearly, concisely and professionally both verbally, non-verbally and in writing.

This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by the individuals assigned to this job.  This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities.  Management reserves the right to amend and change the duties and responsibilities of this job to meet business and organizational needs as necessary. 

7-Eleven, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to workplace diversity.

If an hourly or salary range is included in this ad it represents the range 7-Eleven in good faith believes is the range of compensation for this role at the time of this posting. The Company may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in this state. This range may be modified in the future. No amount is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable under the terms and conditions of the applicable policies and plans. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, long-term incentive compensation, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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