Senior Health & Safety Manager - Training & Competency
About The Position
VoltaGrid Manufacturing is seeking an experienced Health & Safety professional to lead safety training and competency development at its manufacturing facility in Granbury, Texas. This hands-on role combines responsibility for new-hire safety orientation, employee training, mentoring, and competency verification with day-to-day manufacturing safety responsibilities. The position reports directly to the Director of Health & Safety and partners closely with the facility Health & Safety Manager, Operations, Human Resources, and supervisors to strengthen employee capability and help employees perform their work safely. The role includes developing and delivering practical, job-specific training; maintaining training and competency records; evaluating employee skills; supporting mentoring and coaching; and maintaining a visible presence on the manufacturing floor.
Requirements
- Progressive Health & Safety experience in manufacturing, industrial, or comparable environments, supported by relevant education, professional certification, training, or practical experience.
- Demonstrated experience developing and delivering safety training, orientation, coaching, mentoring, or hands-on instruction, and assessing employee knowledge and practical competency.
- Working knowledge of applicable OSHA requirements, manufacturing safety programs, critical controls, inspections, risk assessments, and incident investigations.
- Strong facilitation, communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work effectively with employees and supervisors and manage competing priorities.
- Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety & Health, Industrial Hygiene, or a related discipline.
Nice To Haves
- Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), or qualified instructor credentials relevant to assigned training responsibilities.
- Experience developing competency-based safety training or structured employee mentoring programs in manufacturing.
Responsibilities
- Lead new-hire safety orientation and develop, coordinate, and deliver practical safety training tailored to manufacturing jobs, hazards, and critical controls.
- Maintain a training matrix by position and task, track initial, refresher, retraining, and qualification requirements, and keep accurate training and competency records.
- Develop practical competency evaluations with supervisors and qualified evaluators.
- Verify employee understanding and demonstrated skills, and coordinate coaching or retraining when gaps are identified.
- Support Short Service Employee and new-employee mentoring, and provide ongoing coaching that connects classroom learning with safe work on the manufacturing floor.
- Maintain a visible manufacturing-floor presence and conduct inspections, workplace observations, hazard and risk assessments, and job safety or job hazard analyses (JSAs/JHAs).
- Support Critical Risk Management and critical-control verification for activities such as lockout/tagout, machine guarding, electrical safety, powered industrial equipment, fall protection, and material handling.
- Lead or support incident investigations as assigned, track corrective actions, and incorporate lessons learned into training, procedures, and work practices.
- Coordinate manufacturing safety activities with the facility Health & Safety Manager and operational leaders.
- Promote Stop Work Authority and timely reporting of hazards, injuries, and near misses.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
