Location: Remote - in Eastern or Central time zone
Travel: 50% - as required to support the business
Reports to: Chief Safety Officer
The Vice President will establish and leverage strong relationships with Operations, Fleet Maintenance, Human Resources, Risk Management, Legal, and senior leadership to reduce incidents, strengthen visibility, mitigate risk, and improve employee engagement across a geographically dispersed workforce.
This role serves as the senior subject matter expert for occupational safety, driver safety, crisis response, and regulatory affairs while advancing an engaged, data-driven safety culture focused on creating the best rider experience.
Leadership Philosophy
Creating the best rider experience by leveraging people focused technology. The Vice President will use data, artificial intelligence, telematics, and modern safety tools to enhance human judgment, strengthen prevention in support of a caring, reliable, and connected transportation experience.
Strategic Leadership
- Execute and improve an enterprise EHS strategy aligned with business priorities, growth, and operational goals.
- Leverage a team of directors to drive clarity and alignment on safety expectations, scalable processes, and continual improvement conversations.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to operations leadership and the executive team on safety, health, and risk.
Safety Management & Risk Reduction
- Partner with safety, operations and people team leaders to achieve measurable injury improvements.
- Drive measurable reductions in vehicle incidents and workers compensation claims.
- Leverage analysis models to drive corrective action, and verification of sustained improvements.
Environmental Compliance & Sustainability
- Support compliance with applicable federal, state, and local environmental requirements.
- Oversee programs related to industry relevant OSHA regulations and injury risks.
- Partner with Fleet, Facilities and Operations on electrification, emissions reduction, and environmentally responsible operating practices.
Incident Response & Crisis Management
- Serve as the lead for serious collisions, injuries, environmental events, and other significant incidents.
- Ensure timely escalation, investigation, reporting, communication, and corrective action.
- Partner with Legal, Risk, People, Facilities, Fleet, and Operations during major events.
- Maintain emergency preparedness, response protocols, and business continuity coordination.
Training & Safety Culture
- Support effective safety onboarding, required certifications, recurrent training, and field coaching.
- Promote employee engagement, behavioral safety practices, recognition, and shared accountability.
- Equip leaders to communicate safety expectations clearly and reinforce them consistently.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in occupational safety, environmental management, engineering, industrial hygiene, risk management, business administration, or a related field. Equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
- 12 or more years of progressive EHS, safety, risk, or operational leadership experience, including senior leadership responsibility in a complex, multi-site organization.
- Proven success leading safety transformation, regulatory compliance, incident reduction, and culture change across geographically dispersed operations.
- Strong working knowledge of transportation safety, occupational safety, environmental compliance, fleet risk, and crisis management.
- Executive communication skills with the ability to influence operators, functional leaders, senior executives, regulators, and external partners.
Preferred Credentials
- Masters degree in a relevant discipline.
- Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM), Associate Safety Professional (ASP), or comparable credential.
- OSHA 30-hour General Industry training and advanced incident investigation training.
Core Competencies
Executive leadership
Strategic planning
Regulatory compliance
Environmental stewardship
Risk reduction
Crisis leadership
Data-driven decision making
Safety culture development
Change management
Operational partnership
Continuous improvement
Executive communication
Measures of Success
- Reduced vehicle incidents and severity
- Reduced employee injuries and workers compensation cost
- Strong regulatory, audit, and corrective action performance
- Improved employee engagement and leader accountability for safety
- Effective executive and board visibility into EHS performance
Salary Range: $200,000 - $225,000 base salary plus 25% bonus
