Manager, Fleet Safety & Compliance

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Position

Purpose:

The Manager, Fleet Safety and Compliance – Drivers provides enterprise oversight for driver safety and driver compliance programs across supported fleet operations, including DOT and non-DOT driver populations. This role owns the execution, governance, and continuous improvement of driver qualification, hours-of-service, drug and alcohol compliance, driver coaching, incident prevention, driver engagement, and safety-performance reporting. The position partners with field leaders, Legal, HR, Risk Management, Safety, and third-party providers to ensure driver programs are compliant, consistently executed, risk-based, and aligned to Home Depot’s broader fleet safety strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

Driver Compliance Program Governance:
Own day-to-day oversight of DOT and non-DOT driver compliance programs, including driver qualification files, CDL and medical card tracking, MVR monitoring, annual reviews, pre-employment screening, recurring compliance monitoring, third-party administrator performance, audit readiness, and timely closure of driver compliance documentation gaps.

Hours of Service, ELD and Driver Regulatory Compliance:
Manage hours-of-service compliance, ELD monitoring, exemptions, form-and-manner errors, unassigned driving, and violation trends. Partner with field leaders to address repeat issues, provide coaching guidance, support corrective actions, and escalate high-risk or recurring compliance concerns.

Driver Safety, Coaching and Incident Prevention:
Lead driver incident-prevention program execution and support root-cause analysis for significant vehicular incidents. Use Samsara, telematics, video-based safety data, incident trends, and field observations to identify high-risk behaviors, establish coaching governance, reinforce field leader accountability, and verify corrective-action effectiveness.

Drug and Alcohol Program Oversight:
Oversee execution of DOT drug and alcohol program requirements, including random testing, post-accident testing, pre-employment testing, reasonable suspicion support, and Clearinghouse query compliance. Monitor vendor performance, compliance exceptions, field escalation, and corrective-action follow-up in partnership with HR, Legal, and Safety.

Driver Engagement, Training, Analytics and Continuous Improvement:
Coordinate driver safety recognition and engagement programs, support defensive driving and DOT compliance training routines, analyze driver safety and compliance KPIs, produce scorecards and executive-ready summaries, recommend process improvements, and oversee FMCSA DataQ submissions for inaccurate driver-related records through final resolution.

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

Reports to Sr. Manager, Director Sr. Director or VP Typically requires interpersonal skills for dealing with sensitive or controversial situations.

Typically faces situations that are unstructured and require original approaches.

Typically considers new courses of action within broad policies and medium-term goals when solving problems.

Typically, once given general assignments, determines priorities and defines what should be done and how to do it.

Travel Requirements:

Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

Frequent periods are spent standing or sitting in the same location with some opportunity to move about; occasionally there may be a need to stoop or lift light objects (typically less than 8 pounds).

Working Conditions:

Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Under regular pressure to meet deadlines, quotas and/or must frequently deal with difficult…