Hands-On Safety & Skills Trainer

Sewell Wallis Ltd; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Quarterly bonus

Flexible hours

Pension matched up to 8%

Job summary

Sewell Wallis Ltd is partnering with a large South Yorkshire manufacturing business in Sheffield to recruit an Internal Trainer. You will lead practical and classroom training across safety-critical areas, assess competence, and ensure onboarding and refresher programmes meet legislative and company standards.

You will collaborate with HR, L&D, Production and Safety teams, maintaining training records and competency matrices while driving improvements in the learning experience and safety

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering practical workplace training and competency assessments.
• Current instructor qualifications or willingness to obtain them across FLT, cranes, MEWP, PASMA, abrasive wheels and material handling.
• Strong understanding of health & safety, risk assessments, safe systems of work and equipment competency.
• Experience delivering both practical and classroom-based training.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with adaptable approach.

Responsibilities

• Deliver practical and classroom-based training across FLT, cranes, abrasive wheels, material handling, MEWP and PASMA, plus IOSH Working Safely and Managing Safely.
• Assess employee competence through demonstrations, observation and questioning with feedback.
• Plan onboarding, refresher and competency-based training around operations.
• Develop and maintain lesson plans, course materials and assessments.
• Collaborate with HR, L&D, Production, Maintenance and Health & Safety to maintain training records.
• Ensure training complies with legislation, risk assessments and company procedures.
• Support managers to ensure employees are trained before safety-critical activities.
• Promote safe behaviours and escalate concerns about equipment or practices.
• Review training effectiveness and identify improvements; stay up to date with CPD.

Skills

Practical training

Competency assessment

Instructor qualifications

Health & safety knowledge

Classroom training

Safety-critical environments

MS Office

Communication skills

Organisational skills

Education

IOSH qualification

Job description

Sewell Wallis Ltd is partnering with a large South Yorkshire manufacturing business in Sheffield to recruit an Internal Trainer. You will lead practical and classroom training across safety-critical areas, assess competence, and ensure onboarding and refresher programmes meet legislative and company standards.

You will collaborate with HR, L&D, Production and Safety teams, maintaining training records and competency matrices while driving improvements in the learning experience and safety