Corporate Safety Training Manager (34891)

Position Summary

The Corporate Safety Training Manager is responsible for the creation, management, and tracking of all safety training programs across the company. This role designs and maintains a company-wide training curriculum, ensures training content meets OSHA and regulatory requirements, manages the systems used to schedule and record training, and reports on training compliance across all sites. Partners closely with site leadership, the Safety team, and Human Resources to ensure every employee receives the right training, at the right time, and that records are audit-ready at all times.

Key Responsibilities

- Designs, develops, and maintains a company-wide safety training curriculum covering new-hire orientation, role-specific training, and ongoing refresher/compliance training.

- Manages the company's Learning Management System (LMS) or training tracking platform, ensuring accurate enrollment, completion, and certification records for every employee and site.

- Tracks and reports on training compliance across all sites, identifying gaps and following up with site leadership to close them before deadlines.

- Ensures all safety training content aligns with OSHA, DOT, EPA, and other applicable regulatory requirements, and updates materials as regulations change.

- Develops and delivers train-the-trainer programs to build site-level training capability and consistency across the organization.

- Creates and maintains training materials, including presentations, videos, job aids, and e-learning modules, in coordination with the Safety and Communications teams.

- Maintains a master training matrix mapping required training to job roles, sites, and regulatory triggers.

- Coordinates scheduling of instructor-led training, certifications (e.g., first aid/CPR, forklift, confined space), and third-party training vendors.

- Prepares training compliance reports and dashboards for site and senior leadership, highlighting completion rates, upcoming expirations, and risk areas.

- Supports audit readiness by maintaining organized, retrievable training records and documentation.

- Partners with EHS site leaders and Human Resources to align training programs with onboarding, career development, and disciplinary processes.

- Evaluates training program effectiveness and incorporates feedback and incident trends into curriculum updates.

- Stays current on training best practices, adult learning principles, and emerging safety training technologies.

- Performs other duties as needed to support EHS training initiatives and the department.

Qualifications

Qualifications

- 10+ years of experience in safety training, EHS, or a related field, with a bachelor's degree in Occupational Safety, Education, Human Resources, or a related field (or equivalent combination of education and experience).

- Demonstrated experience designing, delivering, and tracking training programs across multiple sites or a large workforce.

- OSHA 30-Hour General Industry certification required; OSHA 500/501/502 (Authorized Trainer)

- Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Associate Safety Professional (ASP), or Certified Safety and Health Trainer (CET) preferred.

- Extensive knowledge of OSHA training requirements and general industry (29 CFR 1910) standards.

- Experience administering a Learning Management System (LMS) or similar training-tracking platform.

- Association for Talent Development (ATD) certification or similar instructional design credential a plus.

Skills & Abilities

- Strong instructional design skills, including adult learning theory and e-learning development tools.

- Excellent presentation, facilitation, and public speaking skills for delivering training to diverse audiences.

- Strong project management skills with the ability to coordinate training schedules across multiple sites simultaneously.

- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office suite; experience with e-learning authoring tools (e.g., Articulate, Camtasia) a plus.

- Strong data analysis and reporting skills, with the ability to build and interpret training compliance dashboards.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong attention to detail in recordkeeping and documentation.

- Experience building train-the-trainer programs a plus.

- Bilingual (Spanish-speaking) preferred.

Work Environment & Physical Demands

This job operates in a clerical office setting. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.

- Requires mobility within an office environment, with periodic travel to sites to deliver or observe training.

- Regularly required to talk and hear. Effectively communicate with others both written and orally, including using the telephone.

- Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer, and standing/moving while facilitating in-person training sessions.

- The employee may be required to walk; reach with hands and arms; and bend.

- May be required to stoop, kneel, and crouch. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.

- Possess good hearing, normal or corrected.

- The employee must be able to regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds (training equipment/materials).

- The employee may be required to climb stairs.

- Must be able to work 8 hours a day, 40 hours per week, and overtime as required, including night or weekend shifts for training events as needed.

CEC Companies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to attracting and retaining the best-qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply.