Senior Safety & Risk Compliance Leader - Driver Ops

8Fleet Inc.; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

8Fleet Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager, Safety, Risk & Compliance in Los Angeles to lead environmental health and safety programs across a high-volume driver workforce.

You will drive workers' compensation, incident investigations, and regulatory compliance while collaborating with People, Operations, Fleet, Legal, and external vendors. You will shape scalable safety processes, manage background checks and screening, and ensure readiness for new market launches as the company grows.

Qualifications

• 10+ 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.

Responsibilities

• Own company-wide driver and workplace safety programs, policies, training, audits, and risk-reduction initiatives across all operating locations.
• Lead the workers' compensation and employee injury process, including injury reporting, claims oversight, investigations, return-to-work programs, accommodations, and coordination with employees, managers, and external partners.
• Oversee workplace injuries, vehicle accidents, safety incidents, and near misses; conduct root-cause analysis and partner with Operations on corrective and preventive actions.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA, Cal/OSHA, and other federal, state, and local workplace safety requirements, including programs, training, documentation, reporting, and recordkeeping.
• Own pre-employment and ongoing background check and drug and alcohol screening programs for the driver workforce; manage vendors and timelines, ensure compliant adjudication.
• Partner with Operations and Fleet leadership to identify driver safety trends and establish consistent safety expectations across the driver workforce.
• Manage relationships with vendors for workers' compensation, occupational health, safety, screening, claims, and other risk-related services.
• Lead safety readiness for new market launches, ensuring programs, training, vendors, processes, and controls are in place prior to launches.
• Monitor safety and risk indicators; provide regular leadership reports on trends, risks, and improvement opportunities.

Skills

Safety program leadership

Regulatory compliance

Incident investigation

Workers' compensation

Background checks

Vendor management

Driver safety

Cross-functional collaboration

Project management

Job description

8Fleet Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager, Safety, Risk & Compliance in Los Angeles to lead environmental health and safety programs across a high-volume driver workforce.

You will drive workers' compensation, incident investigations, and regulatory compliance while collaborating with People, Operations, Fleet, Legal, and external vendors. You will shape scalable safety processes, manage background checks and screening, and ensure readiness for new market launches as the company grows.