Position: Transportation Safety Manager
Location: Danbury, CT (Responsible for Danbury, Shelton, Stanford, Norwalk)
Duration: Fulltime
Salary Range: $105k-150k
*** Must come from garbage, recycling OR transportation industry ***
About the job
The Transportation Safety Manager is responsible for leading and driving all facets of safety in the designated market area. This role is responsible for compliance with the IWS’s Health and Safety/ Transportation Compliance Programs and aligning company standards with all applicable legislation. IWS’s goal is to ensure that all programs introduced to staff members and management are communicated properly and understood to provide a safe workplace. This position is responsible for reinforcing the safety and compliance of front-line staff members who service in the designated market area. This role will report directly to the Market Area Vice President of Operations. They will also have a dotted line responsibility to the Corporate Vice President of Safety, ensuring Safety policies and standards, programs, and tools are deployed in the market.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrates a commitment to communicating, improving, and adhering to safety policies in all work environment areas. Promotes a positive safety culture through leadership by example.
- Analyze safety performance, make recommendations, and drive positive change. Communicate to leadership and Operations the requirements for improving performance including addressing issues, site safety improvement plans, concerns, and corrective actions.
- Develop, monitor, and disseminate company safety goals and/or benchmarks to company employees and managers.
- Manage work assignments, development, and training of safety supervisors within the designated Market Area
- Develop a strong partnership with all levels of the organization, specifically Market Area Vice President, to effectively implement safety policies/ procedures, identify trends and ensure that corrective actions are being implemented and followed up on, as needed at the market level.
- Oversight of safety functions across multi-site operations as it pertains to the designated market areas.
- Conduct incident investigations and incident review meetings with operations to determine root causes and corrective actions.
- Manage care of employees when injury occurs including use of tele-nurse program, clinic/ emergency medical attention in conjunction with Operations.
- Ensure that monthly safety meetings are completed at each location within the market area. This includes providing topic information, participating in meetings, and ensuring safety messages are properly conveyed to frontline employees.
- Responsible for implementing leading indicator programs, analyzing collected data to meet Market Area goals and drive proactive safety results throughout the market.
- Manage and participate in team audits of the facilities (transfer stations, MRFs, Rail Yards, and Hauling Depots)
- Conduct and Managed leading indicator program which includes route observations/ audits, Safety Lanes (trans compliance audits), report findings and recommend corrective action.
- Interact with all levels of management to communicate site-specific safety programs.
- Investigate any safety concerns, report findings and recommend corrective measures.
- Assist Risk Management department to implement Loss Prevention measures.
- Review and communicate findings of Behavioral Analysis reports on regular basis.
- Recommend coaching materials to Operations management as needed.
- Responsible for and manage all regulatory compliance (DOT, OSHA, BIC, DSNY, NYDEC/ NJDEP, etc.) Serve as a regulatory resource for the market area.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field (Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Engineering, Environmental Science) or equivalent combination of education and technical experience. Certifications such as CIP, a plus.
- 5+ years of progressive Health & Safety experience
- Experience from the sanitation industry is strongly preferred.
- Experience working with government regulations and a thorough knowledge of federal, state, and local government Health & Safety, Transportation, and compliance regulations (including but not limited to: DOT, OSHA, NYC BIC, DSNY, NYDEC/ NJDEP, etc.)
