Compliance Specialist

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J.D. Irving, Limited seeks a Compliance Specialist to support safe, compliant, and audit-ready transportation operations across Canada and the United States. You will oversee driver qualification, licensing, medicals, inspections, maintenance records, permits, and training, review hours of service and ELD data, and maintain a legal register of permits and authorities in line with Transport Canada and FMCSA guidelines. The ideal candidate has post-secondary education in transportation or a related field and hands-on experience with cross-border compliance, fleet safety, and audits, plus strong attention to detail, confidentiality, and the ability to collaborate with HSSE, operations, HR, and drivers. Tips for applying: tailor your resume to show cross-border expertise, corrective-action tracking, audit outcomes, and system proficiency in Microsoft 365 and safety platforms; mention relevant certifications and a proven track record of delivering auditable results, and emphasize your ability to learn new systems quickly and work with multiple teams.

Sunbury Transport and RST Industries are looking for a Compliance Specialist to support safe, compliant, and audit-ready transportation operations across Canada and the United States. This role is ideal for a detail-oriented professional with transportation, safety, compliance, operations, driver administration, or maintenance records experience who enjoys working with systems, records, audits, and follow-up processes.

• Oversee and verify driver qualification, training, license, abstract, medical, inspection, maintenance, permit, and compliance records.
• Review hours of service and ELD records, identify gaps, and coordinate follow-up for Canadian and U.S. operations.
• Maintain the legal register of applicable permits, licenses, operating authorities, and transportation-related requirements needed to support operations within Transport Canada and FMCSA guidelines.
• Support audit preparation, corrective action tracking, incident documentation, and compliance reporting.
• Work with HSSE, operations, maintenance, HR, training, drivers, and owner-operators to support consistent compliance practices.
• Maintain accurate, confidential, and audit-ready records in approved company systems.

• Post-secondary education in transportation, occupational health and safety, logistics, business administration, or a related field.
• Experience in transportation compliance, fleet safety, dispatch, driver administration, operations support, maintenance records, audits, or a related motor carrier role.
• Working knowledge of Canadian and U.S. transportation compliance requirements, including NSC, FMCSA, Transport Canada, HOS, ELD, driver qualification, permits, licenses, inspections, and maintenance compliance.
• Strong attention to detail, documentation discipline, confidentiality, and follow-through.
• Ability to work with compliance data, trackers, reports, audit evidence, corrective actions, and multiple stakeholders.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and ability to learn transportation compliance and safety management systems.
• Experience with ELD, LMS, incident reporting, transportation management, driver risk, or safety management systems.
• Exposure to bulk, tanker, dangerous goods, flatbed, van, intermodal, cross-border, or specialized transportation operations.
• Transportation safety or compliance training such as CDS, CDT, CTSP, OHS, TDG, or equivalent training.

Founded in 1882, J.D. Irving, Limited (JDI) operates in Eastern Canada (New-Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Québec, Ontario, Newfoundland and Labrador), as well as in USA. We are a team of 20,000 dedicated employees.  At J.D. Irving, Limited, you are part of a dynamic team of professionals who lead with integrity and are passionate about delivering results. With a culture that nurtures talent and creates an inclusive workplace, you can grow your career across our various operating divisions.

We are committed to creating accessible environments for our colleagues, candidates, and customers. Requests for accommodation due to a disability (which may be visible or invisible, temporary, or permanent) can be made at any stage of application and employment. We encourage candidates to make their accommodation needs known so that we can provide equitable opportunities.

Worried you do not meet all the requirements? Studies have shown that many applicants apply only to job opportunities when they feel they meet 100% of the criteria. We promote an inclusive environment where everyone is appreciated, recognized, and empowered to contribute fully. If you are interested in this position but are worried you did not meet all the requirements, we would encourage you to still apply.

Our recruitment advisors and hiring teams will utilize human screening combined with AI technology to help identify the skills and qualities that matter most to our business, while safeguarding your privacy and using AI responsibly.

We appreciate your interest in our company however only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.