Head of Safety & Compliance

ABOUT NEVOYA:

Nevoya is North America's leading next-generation electric trucking carrier, transforming logistics through AI-native operations and relentless customer focus. The company builds and uses proprietary technology to deliver zero-emissions carrier services to Fortune 500 shippers with superior economics and service to legacy diesel operators. The company has operations in California and Texas, and is backed by globally-renowned investors including Lowercarbon Capital.

About The Role:

The Head of Safety and Compliance owns Nevoya's safety and regulatory compliance strategy end to end, ensuring driver and fleet operations meet all DOT, FMCSA and state-level requirements. This is a strategic leadership role for someone who has moved beyond individual execution and is ready to build, scale, and lead a compliance function as Nevoya's fleet grows. You will set policy, build out processes and potentially a team, represent safety and compliance to executive leadership, and act as the final word on regulatory risk across the organization.

What You'll Do:

- Own Nevoya's overall safety and compliance strategy, setting policy and standards across all locations

- Build, scale, and lead a team responsible for driver qualification, fleet compliance, and safety operations

- Oversee drug and alcohol testing programs, random testing, and Clearinghouse management at a program level

- Own the audit strategy for driver qualification files, vehicle files, and fleet documentation, ensuring constant audit readiness

- Serve as Nevoya's primary point of contact for DOT, FMCSA, and CHP audits, inspections, and citations

- Oversee hours-of-service and ELD compliance programs at scale, including platform strategy and vendor relationships

- Own insurance strategy and broker relationships, including COIs, claims escalation, and risk mitigation

- Set and monitor company-wide KPIs for safety performance, compliance rates, and audit outcomes

- Build correcti...