OSHA & Transportation Safety Manager

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Builds real relationships with our local leaders, drivers, and contractors, earning trust through presence, transparency, and expertise.
• Conducts impactful onsite visits to coach teams, evaluating risks, and recognizing positive behaviors.
• Guides leaders and frontline teams on safe practices that align with OSHA, DOT, and FMCSA expectations.
• Supports incidents with a calm, people-first mindset—focusing on learning and preventing recurrence.
• Facilitates high-quality‑ training that is engaging, operationally relevant, and structured to support continuous improvement
• Helps teams read and understand safety metrics to make smarter, safer decisions.
• Delivers a consistent voice for our safety culture, both in person and remotely.
• Provides support, presence, and leadership to make the biggest impact on safety.
• Reinforce SEIDS’ safety culture by encouraging open communication and shared responsibility.
• Develops and delivers OSHA-aligned training on topics such as HAZCOM, lockout/tagout (LOTO), fall protection, machine guarding, driver safety, ergonomics, and emergency response for all shops, cross docks, and office spaces.
• Develops a comprehensive Maintenance Shop Workplace Inspection Protocol.
• Responds to workplace incidents, injuries, and near‑miss events.
• Conducts root‑cause analyses and implement corrective and preventive actions
• Maintains required OSHA documentation, including OSHA 300 logs, incident reports, and safety training records.
• Champions a culture where people feel seen, supported, and equipped

Employment Standards

Knowledge:

• Possess current DOT, OSHA, and FMCSA regulation knowledge
• A structured investigative process to determine root cause and develop effective corrective actions

Education:

• A bachelor’s degree is preferred or a combination of experience and education.

Experience:

• Experience in OSHA, DOT, FMCSA or transportation related safety roles.
• OSHA 511/501 Authorized Trainer required to administer OSHA 10/30 Training
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate compliance into real-world practices.
• Confidence conducting audits, investigations, and coaching conversations.
• CDL Class A (preferred) or a willingness to train toward one.
• Working knowledge of transportation equipment and basic mechanical aptitude.

Essential Requirements:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate with all levels within the organization, agencies, and vendors.
• Detail oriented, flexible with continuous process/system change with an ability to handle deadlines and due dates.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several variables in a variety of situations.

Working Conditions

• A willingness to travel about 70% while balancing remote administrative work.
• Comfort being part of a 24/7 on call support rotation.
• Ability to work extended hours may be required to meet deadlines, handle unusual workloads or to accomplish organizational priorities
• Ability to sit for prolonged periods in one location which may be restricted to the employee’s workstation.