Transportation General Manager

CleanHarbors•East Chicago, IN

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

Clean Harbors is looking for a General Manager of Transportation to join their safety conscious team! 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%.

Requirements

Willing to travel away from home up to 10-25%
High School diploma or equivalency required
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

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in related discipline preferred

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.