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Beacon Mobility Corp.

The safety director is responsible for ensuring that employees within the organization comply with safety programs that guide the transportation industry. Knowledge of state and federal safety guidelines and requirements are of paramount importance to the success of this role. The safety director needs to partner with the operations team to ensure drivers and other team members are performing the duties of their role in a safe manner to ensure client services are delivered to high standards.

Headquartered in Massachusetts, Beacon Mobility is a growing family of transportation companies committed to serving the diverse needs of our customers. Experienced, compassionate, and inspired, we take pride in our ability to create customized, mobility-based solutions that empower people to get where they need to go.

Our purpose is simple - MOBILITY WITHOUT LIMITS: Transporting people to live, learn, and achieve. We provide those we serve with the opportunities, resources, and support to confidently move ahead. We support safe, compassionate, and inclusive environments that provide our communities with the mobility solutions they need to flourish and succeed. Providing support to 13,000+ employees through 540 contracts, we collectively deliver Paratransit and School Bus services leveraging a fleet of 12,000+ vehicles at more than 100 locations from New England to New Mexico.

Reporting to the Vice President of Safety Operations, the Region Director of Safety champions and provides strategic leadership/direction to a Senior Vice President of Operations in the implementation, delivery and continuous improvement of the Safety Program across multiple locations. This position is responsible to utilize KPI’s and predictive analytics derived from real time vehicle telematics and driver monitoring tools to ensure regulatory compliance and safety performance standards are achieved and upheld.

The role will require highly effective communication, motivation and project management skills while delivering hands-on support to location leadership. The support to locations will require the resolution of complex safety and training processes; motor vehicle crash and work-related injury reduction plans; and compliance with applicable company policies and governmental regulations.

The candidate for this role requires successful experience in managing DOT, DMV and other regulated safety/training programs for multiple locations with over 500 employees. Our ideal candidate will be flexible and result oriented with the ability to proactively analyze current processes/procedures and challenge them as needed to build continued process improvement and reliable safety practices.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Safety Program Oversight - Plans, directs, trains, and leads the implementation and execution of the safety practice: Driver Selection and Retention, Driver Training and Development, Driver Oversight and Support, and Safety and Security Measures.

• Safety Performance Oversight – Monitor and analyze issues and emerging trends that impact vehicle crashes and work-related injury, and behavioral awareness, and compliance to include FMCSA, FTA, OSHA and state/contract requirements.

• Significant Event & Crisis Support - Provides immediate and ongoing leadership to regional operations staff with crash/injury/crisis response and investigations up to and including 24-hour on-site response.

• Interdepartmental Communication - Establishes and maintains effective business relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders to support continuous improvement.

• Audits & Inspections - Complete on-site and virtual inspections, audits and reporting responsibilities timely and with consistently high levels of accuracy.

Qualification Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree or evidence of equivalent experience specifically in critical thinking.

• Experience providing effective safety leadership to multiple locations: building, training, rewarding.

• Demonstrate competency in research methodologies and project management.

• Previous success providing direction, guidance, and coaching to diverse staff.

• Broad understanding of safety policies and transportation best practices

• The previous completion of, or ability to complete the OSHA 30-hour General Industry program, FMCSA compliance program, and incident investigation program within the first 90 days of employment.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to travel up to 75% of the time within the assigned region, with periodic travel outside of the assigned region (as needed).

• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, etc.).

Preferred qualifications:

• Significant experience in commercial passenger transportation safety, education, and training.

• Demonstrate competency in the areas of research methodologies, project management and contract administration

• Previous success in supporting regulatory audits and investigations to include FMCSA, FTA, DOT and OSHA

• Advanced knowledge of transportation related software and telematics.

Terms of acceptance:

Upon acceptance of an offer of employment, employee will perform services for Beacon Mobility that may require Beacon Mobility to disclose confidential and proprietary information ("Confidential Information") to Employee. (Confidential Information is information and data of any kind concerning any matters affecting or relating to Beacon Mobility, the business or operations of Beacon Mobility, and/or the products, drawings, plans, processes, or other data of Beacon Mobility not generally known or available outside of the company.)

Employee will hold the Confidential Information received from Beacon Mobility in strict confidence and will exercise a reasonable degree of care to prevent disclosure to others and will not disclose or divulge either directly or indirectly the Confidential Information to others unless first authorized to do so in writing by Beacon Mobility management.

All provisions of this agreement will be applicable only to the extent that they do not violate any applicable law and are intended to be limited to the extent necessary so that they will not render this agreement invalid, illegal or unenforceable. If any provision of this agreement or any application thereof will be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of other provisions of this agreement or of any other application of such provision will in no way be affected thereby.

Beacon Mobility is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Beacon Mobility makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

Beacon Mobility is a growing family of companies committed to serving the diverse needs of our customers. Experienced, compassionate, and inspired, we take pride in our ability to create customized, mobility-based solutions that empower people to get where they need to go. Our purpose is simple - MOBILITY WITHOUT LIMITS: Transporting people to live, learn, and achieve. We are dedicated to providing those we serve with the opportunities, resources, and support to confidently move ahead. We support safe, compassionate, and inclusive environments that provide our communities with the mobility solutions they need to flourish and succeed. Backed by nearly 70 years of experience, Beacon Mobility operations can be found in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Minnesota providing support to over 10,000 employees in over 1,300 communities through the delivery of Paratransit and School Bus services leveraging a fleet of over 6,500 vehicles.