Job Description
Position Summary
Collaborate with operations personnel to integrate Health & Safety into all activities and decision making processes at assigned locations throughout the country.
Schedule: Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm
Location: Reading, PA/Irving, TX or Windsor, CT
Travel: 30% - 40% (average 3 nights away per week - includes some weekends)
Major Responsibilities:
- Prevention of vehicle accidents and work related injuries
- Compliance with company policies, procedures, and agency regulations
- Warehousing and Transportation safety management
- Monitor and analyze H&S performance
- Provide communication to Operations' Leadership regarding performance status and make recommendations for improvement
- Monitor effectiveness of performance improvement efforts, with emphasis on both leading and trailing indicators
- Provide regulatory interpretations and updates, support for Operations' Leadership, oversee effective safety training
- Other projects as assigned by Director of Safety and Senior Operations Leadership.
Qualifications
Qualifications:
- High school diploma or equivalent required
- Bachelors Degree preferred
- Three years DOT fleet and/or general industry safety management experience
- Comprehensive knowledge of DOT, and OSHA regulations and requirements
- Comprehensive knowledge of basic safety management techniques
- Effective communication skills, written and verbal
- Effective team building skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects, establish priorities, and accomplish goals & objectives
- Proficiency with MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and MS Word
- Flexibility regarding travel - average 3 nights away per week - includes some weekends
- Analytical and problem solving skills
- Regular, predictable, full attendance is an essential function of the job
- Willingness to travel as necessary, work the required schedule, work at the specific location required, complete Penske employment application, submit to a background investigation (to include past employment, education, and criminal history) and drug screening are required.
Physical Requirements:
-The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
-The associate will be required to: read; communicate verbally and/or in written form; remember and analyze certain information; and remember and understand certain instructions or guidelines.
-While performing the duties of this job, the associate may be required to stand, walk, and sit. The associate is frequently required to use hands to touch, handle, and feel, and to reach with hands and arms. The associate must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25lbs/12kg.
-Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
