Manager, Fleet Safety & Compliance

Home Depot • Atlanta, GA

4d • Onsite

About The Position

The Manager, Fleet Safety and Compliance – Drivers provides enterprise oversight for driver safety and driver compliance programs across supported fleet operations, including DOT and non-DOT driver populations. This role owns the execution, governance, and continuous improvement of driver qualification, hours-of-service, drug and alcohol compliance, driver coaching, incident prevention, driver engagement, and safety-performance reporting. The position partners with field leaders, Legal, HR, Risk Management, Safety, and third-party providers to ensure driver programs are compliant, consistently executed, risk-based, and aligned to Home Depot’s broader fleet safety strategy.

Requirements

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• 2 years’ experience with compliance administration
• Must possess excellent organizational skills to ensure all work is accurately completed in a timely fashion.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills to clearly articulate at all levels is critical.
• Strong attention to detail.
• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to perform financial analysis.
• Ability to ascertain and solve problems.
• Strong computer skills.
• Strong communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Six Sigma or other Process Improvement Methodology
• Advanced in Microsoft Office Suite including Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Word, and Visio.
• Associates degree or higher.
• Certified Director of Safety (CDS) Certification, Certified Transportation Professional (CTP) or Certified Safety Professional (CSP) Designation.
• SMITH System or Decision Driving Trainer Certification
• 2 Years’ Experience Managing a Fleet Maintenance Program
• Class A Commercial Driver’s License (CDL).
• Business Analysis: Clarifies and resolves complex business issues by breaking them down into meaningful components to determine root cause and redesigning internal and external business processes.
• Business Communication: Writes, speaks, and presents clearly and succinctly across a variety of communication settings and adjusts communication style to the audience by translating and articulating technical concepts to nontechnical groups.
• Creative Thinking: Demonstrates originality and imagination in thinking while developing a solution to a problem.
• Financial Acumen: Utilizes fundamental concepts of finance to manage budgets, forecast costs, and provide information to account for the financial impact of decision-making.
• Adaptability: Adapts to and embraces change with composure, resilience, and perseverance in the face of constraints, high pressure, and adverse situations.
• Delivers Results: Demonstrates a clear bias for action and a sense of urgency on priorities.
• Drives Excellence: Approaches problems systematically; develops solutions with sustainable and scalable results.
• Excels in Customer Service: Thinks and acts with a customer perspective.
• Inspires Achievement: Excites associates about change, by explaining its benefits and the business case.
• No additional education
• No additional years of experience
• None

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day oversight of DOT and non-DOT driver compliance programs, including driver qualification files, CDL and medical card tracking, MVR monitoring, annual reviews, pre-employment screening, recurring compliance monitoring, third-party administrator performance, audit readiness, and timely closure of driver compliance documentation gaps.
• Manage hours-of-service compliance, ELD monitoring, exemptions, form-and-manner errors, unassigned driving, and violation trends. Partner with field leaders to address repeat issues, provide coaching guidance, support corrective actions, and escalate high-risk or recurring compliance concerns.
• Lead driver incident-prevention program execution and support root-cause analysis for significant vehicular incidents. Use Samsara, telematics, video-based safety data, incident trends, and field observations to identify high-risk behaviors, establish coaching governance, reinforce field leader accountability, and verify corrective-action effectiveness.
• Oversee execution of DOT drug and alcohol program requirements, including random testing, post-accident testing, pre-employment testing, reasonable suspicion support, and Clearinghouse query compliance. Monitor vendor performance, compliance exceptions, field escalation, and corrective-action follow-up in partnership with HR, Legal, and Safety.
• Coordinate driver safety recognition and engagement programs, support defensive driving and DOT compliance training routines, analyze driver safety and compliance KPIs, produce scorecards and executive-ready summaries, recommend process improvements, and oversee FMCSA DataQ submissions for inaccurate driver-related records through final resolution.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager