Certified Group partners with customers to deliver innovative scientific solutions and expertise – So The World Can Trust In What It Consumes™. Our network of 30+ North American and European laboratories serves the food & beverage, dietary supplements, cosmetics, OTC, tobacco/nicotine, cannabis, and hemp industries.

Certified Group includes Food Safety Net Services (FSNS), FSNS Certification & Audit, Certified Laboratories, EAS Consulting Group, and Labstat International Inc.

Industry: Biotechnology Research
Company Size: 1,001-5,000 employees

Certified Group

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**JOB SUMMARY **

Are you passionate about shaping exceptional employee experiences and building a culture of continuous learning? We are seeking a hands on Training Manager to lead the design and execution of a best-in-class learning strategy for our multi-site laboratory testing organization.

This is a high-impact role responsible for creating a consistent, streamlined approach to training that empowers employees, builds capability, enables retention, and drives operational excellence. From onboarding new hires to preparing future leaders, you will partner with subject matter experts to design and deliver programs that make a measurable difference in performance and engagement.

This leader will uphold our purpose – so the world can trust in what it consumes by fostering a culture aligned to our mission and values:

**Purpose: ** So the world can trust in what it consumes.

**Mission: ** Partner with customers to deliver innovative scientific solutions and expertise.

**Values **: start with the customer, commit to safety and quality, drive to deliver, act with integrity and support the team.

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**ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES **

- **Own the Learning Journey: ** Develop and implement a comprehensive and modernized training framework that ensures consistency and quality across all sites. Ensure training is prioritized according to business needs. Ensure training curriculum evolves with changing business capability needs. Includes ownership of our learning management system (LMS).

- **Transform Onboarding: ** Lead the design and execution of an engaging first-year onboarding experience—critical to employee success and retention.

- **Build Skills & Careers: ** Oversee technical, professional, and leadership development programs that enable career progression and readiness for future roles.

- **Measure What Matters and Enable Accountability: ** Manage a Learning Dashboard of KPIs to track training effectiveness, completion rates, and impact on business outcomes. Use data-driven insights to continuously improve training effectiveness and drive accountability.

- **Enable Local Teams: ** Mentor and enable regional Training Specialists through a Train-the-Trainer program, ensuring they have the tools and guidance to deliver excellence locally.

- **Collaborate for Impact: ** Partner with Operations, HR, Quality/Regulatory, Safety, and a community of field-based Trainers to ensure high-impact and effective training (both online and on the job).

- **Innovate & Improve: ** Continuously evaluate and enhance training content, delivery methods, and measurement practices to keep learning engaging and effective

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**MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS **

- Bachelor’s degree required (Education, Organizational Development, HR, or related field preferred).

- 7–10 years in adult learning and development within an operational or multi-site environment.

- Experience in multisite business that requires leading through influence and collaboration in a virtual environment.

- Proven success in designing and implementing training programs that drive measurable results.

- Experience with online learning tools, technology and learning management systems.

- Employee focus

- Ability to work both independently and in teams.

**PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS **

- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.

- Ability to lead through collaboration and inspire a culture of learning.

- Ability to analyze metrics and data and translate insights into actionable strategies.

- Excellent communication skills

- Enables continuous improvement and challenges the status quo.

**BENEFITS: **

- Progressive 401k Retirement Savings Plan

- Employer Paid Short- Term and Long-Term Disability, and Life Insurance

- Group Medical

- Tuition Reimbursement

- Flexible Spending Accounts

- Dental

- Paid Holidays and Time Off

Certified Group values diversity in its workforce. The company is firmly committed to a policy of Equal Opportunity and will administer its policies in a manner that treats each employee and applicant for employment on the basis of merit. Certified Group will take affirmative action to seek out qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, handicap, or veteran status.

Senior Training Manager (LMS)

**Job Summary: **

Responsible for supporting environmental, health and safety related initiatives, training, continuous improvement, incident response and investigations, reporting, and worker's compensation throughout Certified Group (CG) Corporations Eastern Region.

**Essential Responsibilities: **

- Creation, revision, and implementation of CG Corporate EHS Policies, Procedures and Forms

- Oversight management of all EHS processes within the Eastern Region including Canada with direct responsibility for the Greensboro, NC facility.

- Agenda and Minutes of the Safety/Management Meetings

- Maintain regular correspondence with the Corporate EHS Director

- Maintain EHS related documentation

- Prepare for, participate in and follow up on Corporate EHS Audits, as needed

- Preparing Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly Safety Review Reports, as needed

- Contribute to pollution reduction, recycling and sustainability efforts

- Develop regional EHS communications

- Online database and Sharepoint management where needed.

- Identify and administer programs and training to reinforce a culture of safety

- Maintain applicable EHS scorecards

- Review fleet telematics data for trends and develop action plans for improvement

- Chemical safety and compliance- ensuring chemical inventories for all labs and inventory rooms are being conducted, tracked, analyzed, with annual waste stream analysis and waste mgmt. plan reviews.

- Safe Driving Program – work with HR and facilities to maintain the driver’s safety program. validate drivers, pull MVR’s, and coordinate Drivers Safety training.

- Workers Compensation, assistance with:

- Completion of incident investigation reports, database entry, and case management

- Incident tracking and trend analysis

- Annual 300A Summary reports

- Required OSHA incident filings, as needed

- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) program including:

- Review and evaluate of all PPE programs / requirements / usage / etc

- Coordination of the Prescription Safety Eyewear process

- Schedule, Coordinate, and ensure Emergency Drills are being conducted, including:

- Semi-annual Fire Drills for all shifts and all buildings

- Annual Power Outage Drill, Annual Severe Weather Drill, Active Shooter Drill, and various other drills as needed.

- Ensuring and possibly coordinating waste pick-ups, removal of chemicals, maintaining waste manifests, waste stream analysis, and annual waste summary reports, as needed.

- Health & Safety Training

- Ensure EHS training programs are being assigned, completed, and summary reports, as needed. This could include direct training administration, arranging for outside providers or managing online training portals.

- Promote safe work practices and safety awareness through all levels

- Other duties as assigned

**Minimum Qualifications: **

- High School Diploma or GED recognized by the Council for Education Accreditation (CEA) Required

- College, technical institute diploma or University Degree (preferred)

- Occupational Health and Safety Certificate (preferred)

- Standard First Aid Training (preferred)

- Familiar with the creation, administration and maintenance of EHS Programs within a laboratory environment

- Familiar with the identification and control of laboratory and EHS related hazard

- Experience in digital and physical recordkeeping

- Experience with Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Hazardous Waste Classification/Management (preferred)

- HAZWOPER 40 Hour (preferred)

**Physical Demands/Work Environment: **

- Sitting for extended periods of time

- Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse and to handle other communications/computer components

- Occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

- Corporate assignments / duties as assigned

- Day and/or night shifts

- Attending conferences / meetings / seminars

- Use of safety equipment / PPE.

- Must be able to drive a vehicle to and from inspections.

- Will require travel within the Region to include Canada (Ontario) 25 - 50% of time.

- Potential exposure to odors, fumes, airborne particles, hazardous chemicals, and microbiological pathogens

Environmental Health Safety Coordinator

**JOB SUMMARY **

Are you passionate about shaping exceptional employee experiences and building a culture of continuous learning? We are seeking a hands on Training Manager to lead the development and execution of a best-in-class learning strategy for our multi-site laboratory testing organization.

This is a high-impact role responsible for creating a consistent, streamlined approach to training that empowers employees, strengthens retention, and drives operational excellence. From onboarding new hires to preparing future leaders, you will design and deliver programs that make a measurable difference in performance and engagement.

This leader will uphold our purpose – so the world can trust in what it consumes by fostering a culture aligned to our mission and values:

**Purpose: ** So the world can trust in what it consumes.

**Mission: ** Partner with customers to deliver innovative scientific solutions and expertise.

**Values **: start with the customer, commit to safety and quality, drive to deliver, act with integrity and support the team.

** **

**ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES **

- **Own the Learning Journey: ** Develop and implement a comprehensive and modernized training framework that ensures consistency and quality across all sites. Ensure training is prioritized according to business needs. Ensure training curriculum evolves with changing business capability needs.

- **Transform Onboarding: ** Lead the design and execution of an engaging first-year onboarding experience—critical to employee success and retention.

- **Build Skills & Careers: ** Oversee technical, professional, and leadership development programs that enable career progression and readiness for future roles.

- **Measure What Matters and Enable Accountability: ** Manage a Learning Dashboard of KPIs to track training effectiveness, completion rates, and impact on business outcomes. Use data-driven insights to continuously improve training effectiveness and drive accountability.

- **Enable Local Teams: ** Mentor and enable regional Training Specialists through a Train-the-Trainer program, ensuring they have the tools and guidance to deliver excellence locally.

- **Collaborate for Impact: ** Partner with Operations, HR, Quality/Regulatory, Safety, and other stakeholders to ensure training meets compliance standards and supports organizational goals.

- **Innovate & Improve: ** Continuously evaluate and enhance training content, delivery methods, and measurement practices to keep learning engaging and effective

** **

**MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS **

- Bachelor’s degree required (Education, Organizational Development, HR, or related field preferred).

- 5–10 years in adult learning and development within an operational or multi-site environment.

- Experience in multisite, preferably regulated, environments (laboratory, healthcare, manufacturing).

- Proven success in designing and implementing training programs that drive measurable results.

**PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS **

Technology savvy with experience working in Learning Management Systems

- Strong attention to detail is required in QC’ing training content and materials

- Ability to lead through collaboration and inspire a culture of learning.

- Ability to analyze data and translate insights into actionable strategies.

- Strong organizational and skills

- Exceptional communication and facilitation skills with the ability to influence across multiple levels and locations.

**PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTABILITIES **

Quality Excellence: Promote a culture where quality is embedded into every action in self and others.

- Customer-Focus: Through training efforts, enable timely, high-quality results and solutions that build trust with our partners, meet and exceed customer expectations and enhance our reputation in the market to expand business opportunities.

- People-Centricity: Contribute to a safe, engaging, and inclusive environment. Be present and accessible, ensuring team members are supported, empowered, trained and motivated to perform at their best and reach their full potential.

- Profitability: Under direction of the lab leader, encourage and enable efforts to drive cost efficiency within the lab through managing labor and scheduling, courier, inventory and optimizing all resources to ensure sustainable, efficient operations.

- Innovation: Enable a team that is relentlessly focused on continuous improvement, learning openly from defects, and championing problem-solving, new ideas to improve service, quality, and efficiency.

**BENEFITS: **

- Progressive 401k Retirement Savings Plan

- Employer Paid Short- Term and Long-Term Disability, and Life Insurance

- Group Medical

- Tuition Reimbursement

- Flexible Spending Accounts

- Dental

- Paid Holidays and Time Off

Certified Group values diversity in its workforce. The company is firmly committed to a policy of Equal Opportunity and will administer its policies in a manner that treats each employee and applicant for employment on the basis of merit. Certified Group will take affirmative action to seek out qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, handicap, or veteran status.

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