Transportation General Manager

Clean Harbors

$90K — $120K *
Transportation
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High school diploma required; bachelor's degree preferred.
  • Minimum 5 years in transportation management or higher.
  • Experience with P&L responsibility and financial reporting.
  • Knowledge of and experience in the environmental industry.
  • Strong interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and ensure compliance with health and safety policies.
  • Manage financial performance metrics and budgets for drivers.
  • Enhance operational efficiency on load management and driver scheduling.
  • Collaborate with HR for driver hiring and engagement strategies.
  • Oversee equipment utilization and maintenance for operational efficiency.
  • Mentor and develop the driver team and manage performance reviews.
  • Handle accident reporting and continuous safety improvements.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package available.
  • Support for professional development opportunities.
  • Travel flexibility with minimal overnight requirements.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Clean Harbors is looking for a General Manager of Transportation to be located in Smithfield, KY. This role will oversee and manage National Transportation drivers to make sure the operation is safe and compliant. The General Manager role will support continuous driver growth and lower the company transportation expense. This role will handle the financial reporting responsibility for assigned drivers up through the business group. Position may require travel away from home up to 10-25%.

Responsibilities

  • Ensuring that Health and Safety is the number one priority by complying with all safe work practices, policies, and processes and acting in a safe manner at all times;
  • Manages the assigned drivers including financial KPI's, budgets, forecasting, and P&L measurements. Works with his or her senior leaders to reduce company transportation expense;
  • Operational responsibility to review, manage and improve load efficiencies, driver work hours, loads per hour, week & month, compares to operational KPI's;
  • Manages the assigned drivers and has direct interaction with HR and Recruiting to hire new drivers, and improve Safety, Employee Engagement, Regulatory Compliance, Retention Performance Management;
  • Responsible for driver and equipment utilization and maintenance for assigned drivers feeding into the overall business group. Maximize and measure load efficiencies. Work with the asset management team to ensure the proper equipment is available for current work and growth potential. Implement low cost driver strategies including Owner Operator hiring to lower operational costs;
  • Mentors, coaches and develops the driver pool. Provides and receives feedback from team. Implements employee growth plans. Responsible for driver review and driver progression through CHES CBPP programs. Responsible for Owner Operator vendor scorecards;
  • Properly reports, investigates and manages all accidents and near miss incidents. Drive continuous safety improvement;
  • Support internal and external customer with transportation pricing and execution;
  • Daily systems approval for all driver applications. Including but not limited to daily payroll review and approval, fuel and Pcard purchases, lodging, ELD HOS of service and time off requests;
  • Daily dispatch and interface of assigned drivers. Coordinator will dispatch using the available systems including TMS, ELD interface, manual schedules and WIN TMS, LWB and Hub Mgmt. Provide optimal customer service across the assigned regions. Communicate schedules and delays to manager and specific customers on real time basis;
  • Other Duties as Assigned.


Qualifications

  • Willing to travel away from home up to 10-25%
  • High School diploma or equivalency required;
  • Bachelor's degree in related discipline preferred;
  • P&L Experience;
  • 5 + years Transportation experience;
  • 5 years' experience at Managers level or higher;
  • Experience in the environmental industry;
  • Knowledgeable in Environmental Industry.
  • Operational experience.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills;
  • Strong communication skills (written and verbal);
  • Good organizational skills.
  • Knowledge of profit improvement;
  • Able to maintain accuracy of system and report information;
  • Proficiency in Windows based application;
  • Ability to work in a team environment;
  • Very detailed orientated;
  • Ability to work with no supervision;
  • Require sitting, speaking, listening, grasping.
  • Requires reaching, standing, walking, stooping and crouching;
  • Lift pull and/or push or carrying/ lifting up.


Clean Harbors is committed to complying with applicable pay transparency laws and ensuring fair and equitable compensation. The posted salary range reflects the minimum and maximum target for this role. Final compensation may vary based on factors such as location, experience, skills, and business needs. In addition to the base salary, some roles may be eligible for bonus or incentive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package.

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