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.

Be the architect of a new, future focused safety training program

Are you energized by the opportunity to build something from the ground up? Do you bring a passion for safety, innovation, and empowering others? NorthStar is launching a brand new role, and we're looking for a forward thinking Senior Safety Program Trainer to help shape the future of safety excellence across our natural gas, biomass, wind, and solar operations.

This is more than a training role-it's an opportunity to influence culture, modernize safety programs, and design learning experiences that raise the bar for an entire organization

Why This Role Is Unique

• It's brand new. You'll help design, refine, and elevate a comprehensive safety training program from the ground up.
• You shape the future. Your expertise will directly influence safety practices across multiple generation technologies and field environments.
• Your creativity matters. Bring new instructional methods, e learning tools, and engagement strategies to life.
• You'll make a real impact. Your work strengthens safety awareness, improves performance, and ensures compliance with critical regulatory standards.
  
  

What You'll Do

As the Senior Safety Program Trainer, you'll lead the development and delivery of high quality safety instruction and innovative learning experiences. Your work will include:

Training & Program Development

• Create engaging lectures, hands on activities, and e learning modules to reinforce safe work practices.
• Continuously refine curricula, lesson plans, and instructional materials to improve learning outcomes.
• Coordinate all aspects of the training program including scheduling, resources, and cross functional collaboration.

Safety Culture & Field Engagement

• Partner with on site Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) teams to assess current practices, identify opportunities, and standardize safety procedures enterprise wide.
• Support outage safety initiatives through orientations, presentations, and on site engagement.
• Promote a strong, unified safety culture across diverse work environments.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Apply continuous improvement frameworks such as PDCA, Lean, or Six Sigma to enhance safety practices.
• Conduct compliance audits, strengthen documentation quality, and drive improvements through data based insights.
• Stay current with industry trends and modern adult learning methodologies to elevate employee learning experiences.
  
  

What You Bring

• Proven experience designing and delivering safety or technical instruction in industrial, utility, power generation, or similar environments.
• Strong knowledge of OSHA, NERC, and other relevant safety regulations.
• Expertise in engaging diverse audiences, from field employees to leaders.
• Proficiency with instructional design tools, e learning platforms, and standard office software.
• Experience with process improvement frameworks (Lean, Six Sigma, PDCA).
• Strong communication, organization, and time management skills.
• Ability to innovate, adapt, and apply modern learning strategies.
  
  

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree required in Occupational Safety, Training & Development, Education, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Master's degree preferred.
• 4+ years of relevant experience required.
• Safety related certifications such as Lockout/Tagout, Confined Spaces, Hot Work, HAZWOPER, First Aid/CPR/AED Instructor, Hoisting & Rigging, Forklift, or Aerial Lift are preferred.
  
  

Where You'll Work

This role offers exposure to a variety of work environments:

• Corporate / Home Office - 50%
• Field visits / Travel - 50% including power plants and renewable energy sites

This role requires the ability to lift up to 30 pounds, navigate industrial environments, and engage with employees working in dynamic and sometimes hazardous settings.

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.