Job Title: Driver Supervisor
Location: Long Beach, CA
Employment Type: Direct Hire
Schedule: Monday–Friday | 7:00 AM–3:00 PM
Compensation: $75,000–$85,000 annually
Job Summary:
The Driver Supervisor oversees Class A employee drivers and serves as a liaison with Independent Contractor drivers. This role monitors driver performance, verifies proper training, and supports safety and compliance standards. The Driver Supervisor also travels to remote locations as needed to assist with training, hiring efforts, incident investigations, business growth, and maintaining performance standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee employee Class A truck drivers and serve as a liaison for independent contractor drivers.
- Audit driver productivity and confirm alignment with departmental expectations.
- Responsible for ensuring new drivers are properly trained for dispatch and manage continuous training of all drivers.
- Conduct initial, periodic, post-incident, and skills development training for drivers.
- Ride with drivers to coach on proper loading, delivery, and driving techniques while reinforcing safety initiatives, customer relations, and overall performance.
- Create, promote, and maintain a culture of safety by ensuring regular review, creation, and maintenance of safety policies and standard operating procedures with personnel.
- Manage the VTC ELD network to ensure transportation operations comply with federal DOT requirements.
- Monitor drivers’ Hours of Service daily to ensure compliance and participate in disciplinary and corrective actions as assigned.
- Serve as a liaison between Safety and Transportation teams to support processes involving training initiatives, compliance requirements, and incident investigations.
- Support Transportation and Safety teams with the engagement and disengagement processes for independent contractor drivers.
- Travel to remote locations to assist in training, hiring, business growth, incident investigation and maintaining company standards of performance.
- Perform other duties as assigned in support of VTC and Transportation Department operations.
Qualifications
Required:
- Demonstrate a commitment to embracing and promoting the organization’s core values.
- High School Diploma.
- Minimum of three years of experience working in a transportation, distribution, or logistics operation.
- Must possess a valid Class A Commercial Driver’s License with Tanker and Hazardous Materials endorsements and maintain a current medical card.
- Ability to effectively multi-task in a fast-paced, continuously changing environment.
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.
- Detail-oriented with the ability to positively influence others across multiple teams and groups.
- Ability to work independently, using experience and judgment to plan and accomplish tasks.
- Ability to supervise and support a remote workforce.
- Knowledge of electronic transportation platforms and software.
- In-depth knowledge of DOT and FMCSA regulations.
- Ability to maintain effective performance in high-pressure situations.
- Strong leadership skills, including motivating and influencing others, fostering teamwork, and driving continuous improvement.
- Must be self-motivated, well organized, and possess strong critical thinking, deductive reasoning, and decision-making skills.
Preferred:
- Experience in transportation dispatch and/or operations supervision is a plus.
- Proficiency with PC software, such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and Project, is a plus.
- An undergraduate degree or certification in Communications, Logistics, Operations, Supply Chain Management, or a related discipline is preferred.
Work Environment and Physical Requirements:
- Availability to work outside normal scheduled hours as required, including emergency response, with 24/7 on-call responsibilities.
- Ability to work in both office and field environments.
- Must be able to wear, operate, and utilize personal protective equipment such as respirators and fall protection.
- Ability to lift and carry hoses, fittings, and other equipment weighing up to 55 pounds, and to crawl underneath and climb on top of railcars, containers, and tank trailers.
- Ability to sit or stand for extended periods of time.
- Ability to perform physical tasks including walking, bending, reaching, pushing, pulling, stooping, squatting, and climbing to complete vehicle inspections and cargo handling.
- Ability to connect heavy, 20-foot chemical hoses underneath and on top of railcars, requiring lifting and pulling in awkward positions, and to operate valves that may be difficult to open or close.
- Must be able to work outdoors in a range of weather conditions, including extreme heat, cold, and wet conditions.
