Safety Trainer

Why join Super-Sod?

Super-Sod is an organization that has a 70-year reputation for outstanding leadership, innovation, and expertise. Our employees use their creativity and talent to invent new solutions, meet new demands, and offer the most effective services and products in the industry. With your active involvement, creativity, and support, Super-Sod will continue to achieve its goals. 

Super-Sod offers a welcoming environment to both our customers and employees. Our teams work highly collaboratively and are proud of the dynamic culture which cultivates company-wide growth and teamwork. Super-Sod employees stand out as being industry professionals who offer knowledge, experience, and a passion to serve. In turn, the Company provides our family of employees’ competitive wage and benefit offerings to ensure their needs are exceeded and their own families are provided for. In addition to numerous awards for quality products, Super-Sod is honored to be consecutively named a Top Workplace by the Atlanta Journal Constitution year after year.

In addition to good working conditions and competitive pay, it is Super-Sod’s policy to provide a combination of supplemental benefits to all eligible employees. In keeping with this goal, each benefit program has been carefully devised. These benefits include flexible paid time-off, such as vacations and holidays, as well as comprehensive and innovative health and wellness plans that include products like medical, dental, vision, HSA, and supplemental life, accident, hospital, and critical illness. We are constantly studying and evaluating our benefit programs and policies to better meet present and future requirements. These policies have been developed over the years and continue to be refined to keep up with changing times and needs. 

Under limited supervision, a Safety Trainer identifies opportunities to minimize workplace injuries, accidents, and health problems. This role will operate both in the field and administrative office to ensure Company-wide compliance with federal, state, and local safety laws, regulations, codes, and rules.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Implement and conduct safety training programs focused on Agriculture and Store operations.
• Identifies opportunities to minimize workplace injuries, accidents, and health problems.
• Collaborate with all departments for comprehensive safety training.
• Ensure employee comprehension and uphold Company established safety standards.
• Evaluate training effectiveness.
• Conducts safety inspections and audits to assess employee compliance with safety regulations.
• Inspects safety equipment; recommends replacements.
• Reviews accidents and incidents reported by employees and visitors to our facility.
• Drafts and submits post-accident reports and work orders related to health, safety, and security operations.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Competencies

• Extensive knowledge of company safety policies and applicable Occupational
• Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards with particular emphasis on Agriculture Safety.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to travel throughout facility to conduct safety training and inspections.
• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to 40 pounds at times.
• Documented training skills and experience.
• Excellent written, verbal communication skills with public speaking experience.
• A clean motor vehicle record.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Work Environment

The employee will primarily operate within professional offices and retail settings but could also be expected to work outside in all weather conditions and must have suitable clothing. They must have the ability and willingness to work in adverse conditions, not just including extreme weather but enclosed spaces and heights up to 8 feet. The employee will be expected to work around and with machinery that distributes loud noises and exhaust. Personal Protective gear is provided by the employer. This position does require handling and operating of heavy equipment which may introduce a high risk to slips, trips and falls.