The National Transportation Director will provide strategic and tactical leadership across the national transport function for a medical waste organization, supporting business growth objectives and implementing industry-leading metrics, practices, safety, and compliance standards.
Requirements
- Develop and execute a national transport strategy aligned with organizational objectives
- Develop strategic fleet and infrastructure plans to support business growth and expansion initiatives
- Drive transport excellence and continuous improvement initiatives
- Manage capital expenditure for transport fleet and infrastructure
- Lead national standardization of transport operations across all business units
- Develop transport fleet maintenance programs
- Lead a Safety Culture pertaining to transport
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to achieve organizational grow strategies
- Optimize route planning and fleet utilization
- Oversee national transport operations
- Establish and monitor transport KPIs to drive performance and efficiency
- Ensure awareness and compliance with all transport regulations
- Develop organizational safety and compliance programs pertaining to transport
- Foster a culture of safety and operational excellence
- Coach high-performing transport teams across the Business Units
- Mentor driver safe driver performance and culture
- Develop and mentor direct report and Business Unit Transport Managers
- Identify and facilitate fleet management and routing improvements to improve DIFOT
- Collaborate with Sales and to ensure capacity in line with new business opportunities pipeline
- Develop internal strategic partnerships and coordinate with key stakeholders (P&C, Sales, National support roles across the business) to deploy business learnings within the business unit, accelerate improvement and growth opportunities
- Develop national business plans to drive and facilitate new business roll out initiatives to enable growth opportunities
- Integrate and optimize new business roll out within existing routes
- Develop and deploy fleet strategies to ensure transport capacity in line with projected opportunity pipeline
- Support business growth and expansion initiatives
- Drive strategic planning in line with business development objectives
- Align transport fleet capacity and routing strategies enable service requirements
- Continuously optimize fleet and routing to minimize cost and improve service performance
- Drive safety performance improvement strategies
- Develop and improve transport efficiency metrics
- Implement standardized transport operations processes in line with national objectives
- Implement fleet management and maintenance strategies
- Implement new, and manage and improve existing transport related optimization and management systems
- Develop transport policies, procedures, and best practices
- Provide direction and coordinate Transport Supervisors, Dispatches and Drivers
- Coordinate staff onboarding, training and development programs
- Lead performance evaluations and team development initiatives
- Foster a culture of safety and transport excellence
- Build strong relationships with key stakeholders
- Coordinate with National Functional Teams (National Plant Operations, Sales, and P&C)
- Monitor and manage the 4 pillars of operation management Safety, Compliance, Service, and Efficiency
- Develop key transport performance indicators (KPIs)
- Analyze and improve transport metrics (fleet and route)
- Analyze and improve customer service metrics (DIFOT)
- Implement cost reduction and efficiency improvements
- Manage fleet resource allocation
- Manage fleet related vendor relationships and contracts
- Report on transport operations performance to leadership
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision insurance
- retirement savings plans with company match contributions
- paid vacation and sick time
- wellness resources
- life insurance
- professional development opportunities
