Senior Safety Program Trainer - NorthStar Clean Energy

NorthStar Clean Energy decarbonizes the economy by providing clean energy and carbon management solutions to utility, municipal, commercial, and industrial customers enabling them to meet their sustainability and business goals. Additionally, we own and operate natural gas assets throughout the United States. To learn more about NorthStar Clean Energy, please visit www.northstarcleanenergy.com.

This position is with NorthStar Clean Energy, a CMS Energy company, and is not a position of employment with Consumers Energy.

The Sr Safety Program Trainer is responsible for developing and delivering high-quality instruction as part of a comprehensive safety training program that promote a strong safety culture and ensures compliance with regulatory standards. This role evaluates current site safety practices, standardizes procedures, and creates engaging training modules to enhance workforce safety awareness and performance at natural gas, biomass, wind, and solar sites. The position also supports outage safety initiatives and drives continuous improvement through effective documentation and compliance audits.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Develop and deliver engaging lectures, presentations, and interactive sessions to convey course content and concepts using effective methodologies and materials to reinforce safe work practices and ensure knowledge retention. Revise and continuously improve lesson plans, curriculum, and instructional materials.
• Coordinate all aspects of safety training programs including scheduling, resource coordination, budget control, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure timely and compliant delivery.
• Partners with on site EHS representatives to document and evaluate current site safety practices, identify improvement opportunities, and implement standardized safety procedures and training modules across all locations
• Provide outage safety support through orientations, safety presentations, and job-site engagement to reinforce compliance and promote a strong safety culture.
• Apply PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) methodology and conduct compliance audits to maintain accurate safety documentation and drive continuous improvement in safety practices.
• Participate in professional development activities to stay current with the latest educational practices, technology and trends to enhance content creation and learning experiences.
• Ensure that all employees are trained in a way that promotes company-wide compliance with federal, state, and local safety laws, regulations, codes, and rules.
• Other non-essential duties as assigned or may be necessary

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Strong analytics and problem-solving skills
• Strong knowledge of OSHA, NERC, and other applicable safety regulations including emergency response planning and hazard analysis
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to engage diverse audiences at all levels of the organization
• Proficiency in e-learning platforms, instructional design tools, and document management systems
• Experience with Lean, Six Sigma, or other continuous improvement frameworks
• Demonstrated experience managing complex projects
• Proficiency with Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Strong organizational and time management skills to meet deadlines and manage multiple priorities
• Flexible mindset and ability to adapt to various environments, learning styles, technologies and teaching methodologies to cater to diverse student needs

Position Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Occupational Safety, Training & Development, Education, or related field with a minimum of four (4) years' of applicable experience
  [OR] Associate degree in Occupational Safety, Training & Development, Education, or related field with a minimum of six (6) years' of applicable experience
  [OR] High School Diploma with a minimum of eight (8) years of applicable experience
• Master's degree in Occupational Safety, Training & Development, or related field (or equivalent experience) is preferred
• 4+ years of relevant experience is required
• Lockout/Tag Out, Confined Spaces, Hotwork, HAZWOPER, Fire Extinguisher, CPR/AED Instructor, First Aid, Hoisting & Rigging, Forklift, Aerial lift platform Certifications is preferred

Work Conditions:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; stand; walk; use stairs; and use hands and arms to operate a computer. The employee frequently is required to talk or hear. The employee must frequently lift and move up to 30 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate including hazardous plant environments.
• Corporate/home office - 50%, Field visits/travel - 50%

Why should you join our team?

At NorthStar Clean Energy, we offer more than just a place to work. We foster a culture that supports career development, growth, and stability, and we take pride in offering our co-workers excellent benefits and compensation packages. We are deliberately creating an inclusive culture that makes our diverse team of co-workers feel valued, supported, and empowered every day. We're a company made up of thousands of people, all with different stories to share and work to do, but we stand united in our company purpose: world class performance delivering hometown service.

What we offer:

• Competitive compensation packages
• Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401k with company match
• Paid parental leave
• Up to 13 paid Holidays
• Paid time off
• Educational Assistance Program

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion:

We, at NorthStar Clean Energy, value Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. It is part of our DNA. We treat our employees with respect, we treat each other fairly and we value the opinions of others. We are passionate about building and nurturing an environment where everyone feels included. We don't discriminate. We seek to learn about each other and better understand our unique differences. Our uniqueness makes us authentic. We create safe spaces where everyone can be who they truly are. We invite difficult conversations and uncomfortable topics. We value diverse perspectives; this is what makes us great together. We harbor an inclusive environment where employees feel empowered to share their backgrounds, experiences, and ideas. Our Employee Resource Groups, Women's Advisory Panel (WAP), Women's in Energy (WE), Minority Advisory Panel (MAP), Pride Alliance of Consumers Energy (PACE), GENERGY, capable, Interfaith and Veterans Advisory Panel (VAP) are key enablers to living the values of our company culture: Caring, Empowered, Deliberate, Agility, and Ownership.

All qualified applicants will not be discriminated against and will receive consideration for employment without regard to protected veteran status, disability, race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.