CDL Driver Safety Specialist - Covenant Logistics Group

*Travel upwards of 150-200 nights a year*

The purpose of this position is to be accountable for ongoing Driver Development, Customer Root Cause Development and Dedicated Customer Startups within the Dedicated Business Unit. Above all, this job is to ensure our fleet continues to improve their skills to reduce our driver turnover from Safety terminations.

• Facilitate Driver Development Assessments; independently analyzing each driver’s safety performance to ensure our team performs to the highest safety capabilities.
• Learn hazmat for driver training and compliance for reasonable suspicion assessments.
• Identify training needed for Safety Department taught classes, including but not limited to Orientation, New coordinator training, Logs, Mentor classes, Defensive Driving, Confined Space, pre/post trip, and a road evaluation.
• Investigates all possibilities for improvement within the fleet, enterprise, and industry.
• Collaborates with Operations throughout departments, to determine needs and areas of improvement and help driver Safety.
• Complete random driver checks to ensure drivers are following policies and regulations, placing equipment properly, driving safely, and completing pre/post trips.
• Effectively coaching drivers by helping to improve unsafe driver behaviors through coaching.
• Perform remedial and ongoing in person driver assessments
• Executing root cause action plans, onsite driver meetings
• Implementing customer startup evaluation assessments to help our drivers be the safest fleet on the roadway and operate in the safest environment possible.
• Continuously improve training processes to help benefit the drivers in their daily tasks.

Knowledge Skills, and Abilities
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to be flexible in problem solving
• Ability to manage all reporting functions related to the job.
• Ability to keep a professional demeanor throughout all driver assessments, Customer engagements and in person driver meetings.
• Able to effectively communicate to all internal and external employees in the enterprise the importance of Safety.
• Ability to travel to customer sites and assess the environment for potential accidents and find ways to prevent them from occurring.
Education and Experience
• Highschool degree or equivalent required. Bachelor’s preferred.
• Must hold a valid Class A CDL
• Transportation Industry Experience