Safety Training Manager

Colorado Safety Supply; Colorado; On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Colorado Safety Supply is seeking a Safety Training Manager to lead the new training division. You will teach classes, build the catalog of courses, recruit and develop instructors, and run the training P&L across multiple sites, including mobile units.

The role emphasizes delivering high-quality safety training, expanding the program to new locations, and hiring the manager who can scale the operation to a director level by year three.

Qualifications

• Has taught adults in a trade setting (safety, skilled trades, military, apprenticeship, EMS).
• Knows OSHA 500/501 and has competent person qualifications; first aid instructor credentials are a plus.
• Able to hire or supervise instructors and build a high-performing team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the training division from concept to operating business unit.
• Develop and deliver the 2026 catalog of courses; ensure quality and consistency.
• Own scheduling, rosters, certificates and training records; ensure audit readiness.
• Recruit, certify, and develop instructors; implement a train-the-trainer track.
• Run training operations across multiple rooms/delivery sites and manage training P&L.

Skills

Adult training

OSHA 500/501

Instructor management

Train-the-trainer

Sales of training

Job description

Colorado Safety Supply Company • Now hiring — Safety Training Manager • 303-537-5832 Open role — new division leadership

Train the crews.

Build the division.

We sell the gear. We run the mobile unit. We teach the classes. What we do not have yet is someone whose whole job is the training side — in front of the room teaching, and behind it building the catalog, the instructors and the business.

Are you a trainer?

You can hold a room of tradespeople for eight hours and have them leave knowing something.

A leader?

You want to hire people, set the bar they are held to, and be responsible for whether it works.

A motivator?

You can make a crew care about a standard they have ignored for years, without lecturing them.

A team player?

You are glad to be handed a customer by the sales side and glad to hand one back.

Then maybe you should come join our team.

Manager now. Director of training by year three.

Year 1

Teach it yourself

Manager — one instructor, you

• Deliver the 2026 catalog: fall protection competent person, confined space, excavation, forklift, aerial lift, first aid
• Take the classes that are already on the books and make them consistently good
• Fix the gaps in the catalog — hazard communication, hearing conservation and standalone ladder safety have no course yet
• Own scheduling, rosters, certificates and the training records customers actually get audited on

Year 2

Hire your bench

Manager — 2 to 4 instructors

• Recruit and certify instructors; you write the bar they are hired against
• Build the train-the-trainer track so we are not one person deep on any topic
• Run two rooms at once: open-enrollment on our floor, on-site at the customer's
• Take the training P&L — rate sheet, class minimums, volume tiers, utilization

Year 3

Run the division

Director of Training

• Training stands on its own as a business line, not an attachment to gear sales
• Add the authorized-provider credentials that let us issue cards customers need
• Expand the map: Colorado Springs, Grand Junction, Wyoming
• Hire the manager who does the job you did in year one

The ceiling is named on purpose. If the division gets built, the person who built it runs it — we are not hiring a manager and then recruiting a director over the top of them.

Who this is for

You should apply if

• You have taught adults in a trade setting and liked it — safety, skilled trades, military, apprenticeship, EMS
• You can point at 1926 and 1910 and know which one applies to the crew in front of you
• You hold, or can earn quickly, authorized trainer credentials — OSHA 500/501, competent person qualifications, first aid instructor
• You have hired or supervised someone before, even informally, and want to do more of it
• You are comfortable that part of this job is selling — walking a jobsite, finding the gap, proposing the class
• You want a job where what you build stays yours

This is not the job if

• You want a finished playbook on day one — you are writing it
• You would rather be a safety manager on one site than teach across many
• Windshield time bothers you — the mobile unit goes where the work is
• You want to stay a solo instructor; the point of this role is that you eventually stop being the one teaching

Straight about the hard parts

• Year one is heavy delivery. You will be in front of classes most weeks, and the building work happens around it.
• Class sizes have minimums, so some early sessions will be small and the economics will look thin before they look good.
• Three catalog topics have no course built yet. Writing them is on your plate, not a vendor's.
• Some weeks start at a 6 a.m. toolbox talk in a gravel lot. That is where this customer lives.

Questions before you apply?

Ask them. If you want to know what the pay looks like, where the work is, or whether your credentials transfer, that is a five minute conversation and not a reason to skip applying.