Director Of Safety Training

Van Pool Transportation LLC

Director of Safety Training

Headquartered in Massachusetts, 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 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 10,000 vehicles at 105 locations from New England to New Mexico.

Reporting into the Vice President of Safety Operations, the Director of Safety Training supports the implementation and execution of the safety practice across the Beacon Mobility platform. Leveraging comprehensive and laser focus training modules, this position is responsible to develop self-sustaining training, coaching, and onboarding models within each region.

The role will require highly effective communication, motivation and project management skills while delivering oversight and support to region leadership. This role will require strong partnering skills with region leaders to select and equip employees that will deliver driver training, driver coaching and stand up new or acquired businesses.

The candidate for this role requires successful experience in training delivery, leveraging different coaching models, and onboarding acquisitions and employees.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Deliver a highly effective train the trainer program evidenced by:

o Comprehensive train the trainer curriculum and collateral.

o Alignment of content and delivery across regions and service type.

o Four master trainers in each region.

• Deliver a highly effective coach development program evidenced by:

o Comprehensive coach development curriculum and collateral.

o Alignment of content and delivery across regions and service type.

o Four coach trainers in each region.

• Deliver a flexible and highly effective onboarding road map evidenced by:

o Safety titled positions - approved by all stakeholders & automated

o Alignment of content and delivery across regions and service type.

o New acquisitions - approved by all stakeholders & integrated into Ops/PMO

o New contract - approved by all stakeholders & integrated into Ops/PMO

• Provide support and assistance to initiatives as directed by the VP of Safety Operations.

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