Safety Training Manager

Role Scope

• Design, deliver, and evaluate safety training across new hire orientation, annual refreshers, and specialized certifications for a high-automation manufacturing workforce.
• Coach supervisors and team leads on safety observation techniques, near-miss reporting, and behavior-based safety principles.
• Own the facility compliance training calendar and LMS, tracking required training frequencies and certification expirations to maintain ADOSH or OSHA compliance.
• Own the training program budget, manage outside training providers and certification vendors, and mentor safety committee members and junior safety staff.
• Develop leading and lagging training KPIs and report completion, competency, and compliance trends to plant leadership monthly.

Requirements

• Built and run a safety training program from new hire orientation through specialized certifications, with a training calendar owned showing zero compliance lapses.
• Coached frontline supervisors on safety observation and near-miss reporting; experience standing up or improving a behavior-based safety program.
• Managed a training budget and outside training or certification vendors; mentored junior safety staff into independent program owners.
• Owned an LMS or compliance-tracking system and kept a workforce current against OSHA or state-plan (ADOSH) training requirements.
• Built leading and lagging KPIs for a training or safety program and used them to influence leadership priorities.
• Communicate technical safety content in a way shop-floor employees retain.

Nice-to-Haves

• OSHA 30-Hour General Industry card.
• Authorized OSHA Outreach trainer (OSHA 500 or 501).
• Instructional design or train-the-trainer certification.
• Experience with human and organizational performance (HOP) frameworks.