Safety & Training Coordinator

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct new-hire orientation and safety training, including machine safety, PPE, incident and near-miss reporting, emergency procedures, GMP requirements, and other assigned topics.

• Coordinate new-hire onboarding 

• Oversee on-the-job training by moving between departments and workstations, observing employee progress, verifying training checklists, identifying training gaps, and confirming required training is completed.

• Work with supervisors and qualified department trainers to ensure employees receive appropriate hands-on training. The Safety & Training Coordinator will oversee and verify OJT but will not replace the supervisor or qualified trainer responsible for teaching the employee's specific job.

• Conduct specialty and refresher training as needed, including supervisor training, operator training, equipment-specific training, PIT training, and retraining following incidents, observed deficiencies, or process changes.

• Become trained and qualified to provide training and evaluations for applicable Treplar powered industrial trucks and lifts.

• Organize training sessions with supervisors, manage training schedules, and coordinate on-the-job coaching.

• Maintain training documentation and records and ensure compliance with applicable safety and quality standards, including ISO, SQF, GMP, and other company requirements.

• Manage and monitor the company training matrix to ensure new-hire training, annual refresher training, competency evaluations, PIT qualifications, proficiency testing, retraining, and other assigned requirements are completed within established due dates.

• Perform regular safety walks and focused inspections throughout the facility.

• Check for safety concerns including PPE compliance, fire extinguishers, blocked exits, emergency equipment, ergonomic mats, safety signs, sharp edges, defective equipment, missing or damaged guards, housekeeping concerns, PIT traffic, and pedestrian pathways.

• Document safety findings and promptly communicate serious hazards to the Safety Manager and appropriate department leadership.

• Identify skill and safety gaps through observation, employee feedback, incidents, audits, and supervisor input.

• Evaluate training effectiveness through assessments, employee demonstration, observation, and follow-up.

• Assist the Safety Manager with safety initiatives, employee engagement, incident and near-miss follow-up, training campaigns, and other assigned safety activities.

Qualifications

• 1-5 years of experience in a manufacturing, production, training, safety, or related environment.

• Knowledge of GMP requirements.

• Experience with ISO, SQF, food packaging, or similar manufacturing standards preferred.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to teach employees at all levels.

• Ability to observe employees performing work and evaluate whether training and qualification requirements have been met.

• Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office and Excel, and experience with a Learning Management System (LMS) preferred.

• Ability to coordinate, schedule, and manage multiple training and safety projects concurrently.

• PIT trainer/evaluator experience preferred or willingness and ability to complete required trainer qualifications.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to frequently stand and walk throughout production, warehouse, office, and training areas.

• Ability to remain on the production floor for extended periods while conducting training observations and safety inspections.

• Ability to safely walk around operating machinery, conveyors, powered industrial trucks, pedestrian pathways, warehouse areas, and other manufacturing hazards.

• Ability to occasionally bend, stoop, crouch, kneel, reach, and twist while conducting inspections or observing work activities.

• Ability to use stairs and access production areas as required.

• Ability to visually inspect machinery, guards, emergency equipment, PPE, work areas, signs, aisles, and employee work practices.

• Ability to hear alarms, verbal warnings, equipment sounds, and employee communications in an industrial environment while wearing required hearing protection.

• Ability to use computers, tablets, phones, training equipment, scanners, and other standard office and training tools.

• Ability to write, type, complete forms, and maintain electronic training and safety records.

• Ability to occasionally lift and carry training materials, PPE, signs, documentation, and similar supplies.

• Ability to wear required PPE while working in designated production and warehouse areas.

Key Competencies

Relationship management, time management and organization, communication, coaching, conflict resolution, adaptability, teamwork, accountability, attention to detail, hazard recognition, sound judgment, and follow-through.