Coordinator – Rescue & Technical Training

The Coordinator – Rescue & Technical Training is responsible for overseeing rescue operations and delivering technical training services related to Rescue, H2S Gas Detection, Electronics, and Breathing Air systems. This role supervises and coordinates rescue personnel while also facilitating internal and external training programs to ensure compliance with federal, state, company, and client safety standards.

• Coordinate and supervise technical rescue operations including confined space and rope rescue.
• Deliver internal and external training for rescue, gas detection, electronics, and breathing air systems.
• Train employees in rigging up and rigging down our gas detection systems.
• Train employees in calibrating gas detection systems.
• Train employees in operation and maintenance of our gas detection systems.
• Train employees in fit testing of total safety and customer personnel.
• Train employees in cascade air banks and SCBA’s.
• Maintain rescue equipment inventory, inspections, and preventative maintenance.
• Review rescue preplans, RSAs, and ICs documentation.
• Support emergency response coordination with EMS and agencies.
• Prepare and deliver training materials and documentation.
• Ensure regulatory and company compliance.
• Coach and support team development.

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• 2+ years rescue field experience.
• 1+ year training or instructional experience.
• Required certifications including Rescue Technician, CPR/AED, Gas Detection, ICs, Confined Space Entry, SAFE GULF or SAFE LAND, and Haz Mat.
• Strong communication, leadership, and technical skills.

Communicates effectively with immediate co‑workers and immediate supervisor for instructions, training and guidance. Some contact with other departments or external contacts to clarify, obtain and furnish information. May have some external contact with suppliers or customers. Effective oral and written communication skills with good vocabulary, good grammar and good telephone etiquette.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and stoop, kneel, or crouch. Uses hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, colour vision, and ability to adjust focus.

May be infrequently exposed to possible operational hazards or working in or visiting operational sites, including dust, fumes, toxic and caustic chemicals, rotating machinery, high pressure, hot or cold work temperatures, slippery surfaces, water and electrical hazards.

Work consists of varied but routine tasks, processes or operations that are clearly defined. Uses pre‑determined standards to ensure that data is entered, reports are distributed, and projects are completed in accordance with department policies and procedures. Resolves basic questions and refers more complex issues to higher levels.

Work under direct supervision:
Specific instructions are given on assignments or follows written or verbal instructions and established procedures and standard practice to perform assigned tasks.

Total Safety is the world’s premier provider of integrated safety and compliance services and the products necessary to support them, including gas detection, respiratory protection, safety training, fire protection, compliance and inspection, comprehensive flare services, industrial hygiene, onsite emergency medical treatment/paramedics, communications systems, engineered systems design, and materials management. Operating from 176 locations in 20 countries, Total Safety ensures the safe wellbeing of workers worldwide.

Total Safety is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and will not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other protected status. If you require special assistance or accommodation while seeking employment with Total Safety, please contact Human Resources at (713) 353‑5152. (For telecommunications device for the hearing impaired – TTY, please contact 711).