Fleet Safety Advisor

The Fleet Safety Advisor at Green Infrastructure Partners in Ottawa, ON, will ensure compliance with safety legislation and company policies for drivers. Responsibilities include training, conducting audits, performing collision investigations, and developing training content. The role requires a post-secondary education, a clean driver’s license, and involves extensive travel. The advisor will liaise between various teams to enhance safe driving practices and compliance.
Reporting to the Director, Fleet Safety, the Fleet Safety Advisor will support the Team by providing boots-on-the-ground CVOR Compliance & Education, supporting operations and liaising between the Fleet Operations Team, Corporate HSE Team and Operations Teams.

Primary Scope of Role
• Ensure drivers adhere to all Safety legislation and company policies.
• Re-train current drivers either proactively or in a remedial corrective action fashion to help reinforce policies and procedures that will enhance their safe driving skills.
• Carry out early morning proactive yard visits and audit drivers’ documentation and required safety items to ensure compliance.
• Conduct site and shop audits to ensure all required documentation that relates to drivers, vehicles and maintenance is up to date and meets all CVOR requirements.
• Provide detailed reports on assessments, trends, competency measurements, and re-certifications as appropriate and/or requested.
• Conduct adequate on-scene and tabletop collision investigations and write reports for all major vehicle collisions.
• Develop and maintain all Fleet Safety related training content.

Specific Duties
• Act as the main point of contact for CVOR, Provincial Highway Traffic Acts, Regulations, Federal Law and GIP Policies and Procedures as they relate to Transportation Safety.
• Train employees with previous commercial vehicle driving experience to drive the vehicle and/or combination in a safe and acceptable manner according to GIP’s Policies and Procedures, Laws, Regulations, Industry accepted standards and MTO/DOT regulatory requirements.
• Conduct pre-hire driver evaluations to determine competencies
• Organize and instruct classroom theory and hands-on practical courses including but not limited to: Defensive Driving Closed Course, Cargo Securement, Safe Backing, Pre-Trip Inspections, Electronic Logs.
• Conduct field observations or ride-a-longs with written assessments/feedback/re-certification to the driver and management.
• Monitor drivers Hours of Service on GeoTab Drive ELD system and conduct coaching moments to both drivers and operations to reduce violations.

Position Requirements
• Post Secondary Education.
• On Call Availability
• AZ or DZ Driver’s License with a Clean CVOR and Drivers Abstract.
• Ability to operate and teach on a manual transmission vehicle.
• Extensive overnight travel on a regular basis.
• Ability to drive long distances on a regular basis.
• Extensive knowledge of CVOR, HTA, TDG, NSC Standards.
• Well-developed computer skills, including using Excel to create charts & graphs and Power Point for course and presentation creation.
• Experience with GeoTab GPS would be considered an asset.
• Strong ability to effectively prioritize and manage multiple competing priorities.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision and ability to seek clarification when unsure.
• Results-driven with a focus to deliver success in a fast-paced environment.
• Outcome-focused, critical thinker with the ability to analyze and visualize to ensure continuous improvement across our business.
• Demonstrate versatility and resourcefulness in overcoming business challenges.

Success Predictors
• Analytical mindset.
• Versatile and resourceful problem solver.
• Proactive and self-motivated.
• Effective communicator, confident in engaging with all levels of the company.

About Us

Our People

At Green Infrastructure Partners (GIP), our people are second to none. Our most valuable asset is people – our employees, our customers, and the public. Nothing is more important than our people coming to work happy and leaving safely. GIP team members are at the heart of our success in designing and delivering infrastructure projects safely, thoughtfully, and with the highest quality.

Our Work

The work we do impacts lives. It impacts our schools and neighborhoods and shapes our communities and cities. We are one of Canada’s largest and fastest growing construction companies. Every day our people are designing, delivering, and maintaining infrastructure for Canada’s rapidly growing cities. From demolition, shoring and foundations, excavation, remediation, to structures, paving and the production of materials, we have the unique ability to self perform all project scopes without reliance on sub-contractors. The work we at GIP today will carry us into a better, greener, and safer tomorrow.

Our Culture

We are committed to fostering a work environment that embraces Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging for all so our people benefit from the creative solutions that come from embracing differences.

Sustainability is part of our DNA. We focus on recycling and reusing materials by taking old roads and reengineering them into new roads, keeping tons of used materials out of our landfills.

As we look to the future, we need creative, ambitious, and innovative professionals who can help us to build the world of tomorrow, today. If you want to work for a world-class organization that provides an exceptional career experience with an inclusive and collaborative culture, this opportunity is for you!