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Salary: USD 120,000 - 140,000 / annual
8Fleet is a rapidly growing LA-based technology and logistics startup building operational infrastructure for autonomous and non-autonomous rideshare fleets. The Manager, Environmental Health, Safety & Risk Compliance reports to the Regional HR Manager and leads the company's environmental, health, safety, workers' compensation, injury management, and risk compliance programs across a high-volume W-2 driver workforce and multiple operating locations.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning company-wide driver and workplace safety programs, policies, training, audits, and risk-reduction initiatives across all operating locations.
- Leading workers' compensation and employee injury processes, including injury reporting, claims oversight, investigations, return-to-work programs, and accommodations.
- Overseeing workplace injuries, vehicle accidents, safety incidents, and near misses; conducting root-cause analysis and partnering with Operations on corrective and preventive actions.
- Ensuring compliance with OSHA, Cal/OSHA, and other federal, state, and local workplace safety requirements, including required programs, training, documentation, reporting, and recordkeeping.
- Owning pre-employment and ongoing background check and drug and alcohol screening programs for drivers, managing vendors, maintaining adjudication criteria, and ensuring compliance with FCRA, state/local fair chance requirements, and DOT/non-DOT testing protocols.
- Partnering with Operations and Fleet leadership to identify driver safety trends, reduce preventable accidents and injuries, and establish consistent safety expectations.
- Managing relationships and performance for workers' compensation, occupational health, safety, screening, claims, and other risk-related vendors.
- Leading safety, screening, and risk compliance readiness for new operating locations.
- Monitoring key safety and risk indicators and providing leadership with regular reporting on trends, risks, and improvement opportunities.
The role partners closely with People, Operations, Fleet, Legal, and external vendors to reduce workplace and driving-related risk, ensure regulatory compliance, and build scalable safety programs as the company grows into new markets.
Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience in Environmental Health & Safety, Risk Management, Workers' Compensation, Transportation Safety, or related fields.
- Experience supporting a large hourly, driver, logistics, transportation, or multi-site workforce strongly preferred.
- Strong knowledge of OSHA/Cal-OSHA, workers' compensation, injury management, and workplace safety requirements.
- Experience managing workers' compensation claims, employee injuries, return-to-work programs, and external vendors.
- Experience administering background check and drug and alcohol screening programs, including FCRA, fair chance, and DOT or non-DOT testing requirements.
- Strong incident investigation, root-cause analysis, and risk-reduction experience.
- Ability to build scalable programs and processes in a fast-paced, growing organization.
- Strong communication and partnership skills across frontline employees, operational leaders, vendors, and senior leadership.
