Transportation Safety Manager

Role Overview

Work Arrangement

• The position is fully remote and internationally distributed.
• The source lists the location as United Arab Emirates.

Safety Strategy and Governance

• Develop transportation safety strategies, policies, standards, procedures, governance frameworks, objectives, and improvement plans.
• Develop and continuously improve the Transportation Safety Management System.
• Establish safety responsibilities, committees, escalation processes, reporting mechanisms, and management reviews.
• Maintain safety documentation and assurance records and monitor the effectiveness of safety controls.

Risk, Hazards, and Investigations

• Identify, assess, and manage transportation safety risks and maintain transportation risk registers.
• Conduct operational observations, inspections, workshops, audits, and risk assessments.
• Analyze incidents, collisions, near misses, driver behavior, vehicle defects, and safety observations.
• Establish proactive hazard-identification processes and ensure hazards are assessed and addressed.
• Develop corrective and preventive action programs and investigate complex incidents for systemic causes.

Analytics and Reporting

• Develop safety dashboards and monitor leading and lagging indicators.
• Track corrective actions, performance trends, high-risk areas, and critical safety controls.
• Provide regular safety-performance reports to senior leadership and escalate critical matters promptly.
• Monitor indicators including incidents, collisions, near misses, training, inspections, maintenance, audits, and corrective-action closure.

Change and Stakeholder Management

• Assess safety implications of changes to routes, vehicles, operators, schedules, infrastructure, technology, regulations, procedures, and organizational structures.
• Work with transport authorities, police, emergency services, regulators, operators, contractors, and other stakeholders.
• Develop safety training, awareness, competency, and behavioral-safety programs.

Required Experience and Knowledge

• Experience managing transportation-safety programs across road, fleet, public transport, logistics, rail, aviation, marine, or related environments.
• Strong understanding of transportation risk management and safety-management systems.
• Experience with risk assessments, audits, inspections, incident investigations, and corrective and preventive actions.
• Knowledge of driver safety, fleet safety, vehicle safety, journey management, road-risk management, and regulatory compliance.
• Experience with safety data analytics, dashboards, leading indicators, and performance reporting.
• Experience managing transportation operators and contractors and working with external stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of emergency preparedness, incident response, business continuity, and operational resilience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of public transport, rail, aviation, marine, or multimodal safety environments is advantageous.
• Experience with telematics, driver monitoring, fleet technology, or intelligent transportation systems is advantageous.
• Knowledge of UAE transportation and road-safety regulations is highly advantageous.
• A relevant degree and professional safety or transportation certification are advantageous.
• Arabic is advantageous for UAE and GCC environments.

Capabilities and Communication

• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
• Strong project, audit, investigation, risk-management, and stakeholder-management capabilities.
• Ability to investigate complex incidents objectively and make sound decisions under pressure.
• Ability to work independently in a fully remote and internationally distributed environment.
• The source emphasizes a safety-first, risk-aware, proactive, analytical, evidence-based, accountable, resilient, collaborative, prevention-focused, and results-driven mindset.