Fleet Supervisor

Overview: As the manufacturer of Dart® and Solo® brand products, Dart Container is an industry leading single-use food and beverage packaging company. With 15,000 employees and 40+ locations worldwide, Dart offers more than 4,000 products used every day in restaurants, hospitals, schools and homes around the globe.

Benefits: Dart Container full-time employees enjoy great benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, profit-sharing retirement plan, paid vacation, paid holidays, short-term disability, tuition assistance, product discounts and more.

Supervises all facets of driver and local fleet operations per policies and procedures set by the corporate office and regulatory requirements with a focus on meeting Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) for safety, quality, efficiency, and service. This may span multiple shifts. 

Day-to-Day Role: 

• Supervise and promote practices and processes intended to provide safe products that comply with appropriate laws and regulations, meet the company quality standards
• Take ownership and demonstrate leadership necessary to achieve goals specific to Safety, Quality, Service, Efficiency, and Employee Development
• Lead by example to promote and encourage employees to strongly commit to safety
• Establish an environment that encourages employee engagement, participation and teamwork within and between all departments
• Provide continuous leadership and support to drivers to meet or exceed KPIs.
• Proactively seek and identify problems that need to be resolved and quantify the anticipated benefits of problem resolution.
• Facilitate problem solving by leveraging/modeling continuous improvement methodologies to eliminate root causes.
• Supervise, train and promote practices and processes intended to safely transport products and comply with appropriate laws and regulations, while meeting the company’s quality and safety standards to serve the needs of our customers.
• Provide classroom instruction and on-road training, and ensure driver performance to regulatory compliance, policies, procedures, and safety culture.
• Administer, monitor, and/or distribute training material to ensure staff is meeting or exceeding training and safety standards.
• Monitor, review and maintain Hours of Service regulations
• Facilitate driver safety meetings per Corporate guidelines
• Understand, support, and follow management expectations in alignment with company values

Core Skills and Qualifications:

The ideal candidate must possess all of the following: 

• Bachelor’s degree with an emphasis in Logistics, Supply Chain, or related field
• Three (3) years previous Commercial Motor Vehicle driving experience
• 21 years of age minimum
• Seven (7) years of industry experience
• Valid Class A CDL (Commercial Driver License) and favorable driving record upon hiring and ability to maintain throughout duration of employment
• Display strong interpersonal skills and is accessible and approachable.
• Excellent verbal and written skills necessary in order to communicate intricate job-related processes
• Ability to utilize and train employees on technology, processes and procedures
• Ability to maintain composure and adapt in a dynamic, fast-paced, customer-focused work environment characterized by rapid change, minimal lead times, and multiple competing priorities
• Excellent verbal and written skills necessary in order to communicate intricate job-related processes
• Experience using Microsoft Office, including the ability to create reports, documents, presentations and spreadsheets in MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint
• Strong coaching and mentoring skills
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to identify issues, compare data, investigate, and resolve discrepancies
• Ability to solve practical problems in situations where only limited standardization exists
• Demonstration of minimum proficiency with the English language in order to ensure effective new hire training and on-going communications about safety and quality issues

Dart Container is a drug-free workplace.  Candidates are subject to a drug test (excluding THC*/marijuana/cannabis) and background check at the time of offer.

*THC testing ONLY when such testing is required by law.

Dart Container is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all candidates for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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