Transportation General Manager

Responsibilities

• Ensures 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;
• Maintains direct interaction with HR and Recruiting to hire new drivers, and improve Safety, Employee Engagement, Regulatory Compliance, Retention Performance Management;
• Manages the assigned drivers and has operational responsibility to maximize and measure load efficiencies. Works 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;
• Able to work in a team environment;
• Very detailed orientated;
• Able to work with no supervision;
• Requires sitting, speaking, listening, grasping.
• Requires reaching, standing, walking, stooping and crouching;
• Lift pull and/or push or carrying/ lifting up.