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Craft Your Career with Champion Foods – A Slice of Opportunity Awaits!

Champion Foods, a pizza trailblazer, is expanding, and we're looking for dynamic talents to enhance our innovative and quality-driven team. We produce products cherished by families nationwide and pride ourselves on our entrepreneurial spirit, commitment to quality, and a warm workplace culture that feels like family. If you're passionate, eager to grow, and want to work for a company that values each voice and champions personal development, your next career adventure starts here. Join us, and let's craft great things together, one delicious slice at a time.

Your Mission:

Responsible for overall safety programs, including annual planning, communication, training and monitoring plans to ensure safety for both property and people. You will be responsible for federal and state regulatory agency compliance and all reporting requirements. You will also be responsible for the development and execution of safety and security management systems which would include training and action plans. This position will handle confidential and sensitive information and will act with autonomy and discretion.

What You'll Do:

• Drive the development of tactical plans aligned with Safety/Security and business strategy in order to bring the vision into realization.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory changes and that may affect the food industry in a plant environment, including OSHA, EPA, NFPA, LEPC and Reauthorizations Act (SARA) and SARA III.
• Stay current on new or modified codes being mandated in the industry and communicate changes to ensure ongoing compliance.
• Investigate, and document any compliance issues and make recommendations related to results of investigations, safety issues or preventative measures.
• Interface with regulatory inspectors/agencies. Be the point of contact for regulatory inspections, closing conferences, violation abatement, informal hearing and citation/fines to the point of closure.
• Lead the development, monitoring and administration of safety programs including, but not limited to Ammonia Safety Program, Lock-out-Tag-out, Confined Space, hot work, industrial trucks, arc flash, PPE, HACCP programs and ergonomic programs.
• Develop, implement and maintain performance measurement programs, metrics, tracking and progress reporting. Research and report on facility and safety trends, incident frequency, severity rates and DART scores.
• Drive a safety culture that promotes an injury-free workplace.
• Create, facilitate or assist with training of company programs to existing colleagues, supervisors and new hires. Develop policies, procedures or techniques and systems to ensure compliance with corporate and regulatory specifications and standards.
• Coordinate with Human Resources to ensure training initiatives are documented in personnel files.
• Develop and maintain all record keeping related to plant safety and quality issues. Analyze data and report findings and recommendations to appropriate management levels. Produce ad hoc reports as needed.
• Develop colleague communication of essential information related to new techniques, technologies, regulatory changes or other information related to safety and security.
• Maintain all filing systems related to plant safety and quality procedures and issues that are accessible to appropriate personnel.
• Participate in cross-functional teams as assigned.
• Lead or participate in other functions as requested.

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor degree in Safety Science, Engineering, Administration, Business Security Management or Criminal Justice.
• Minimum of five (5) years’ relevant experience in food service industry, preferably in the distribution environment, restaurant loss prevention, safety manager role or public safety enforcement agency.
• In-depth knowledge and experience with government regulatory agencies and requirements, including OSHA, EPA, NFPA, LEPC and Reauthorizations Act (SARA) and SARA III. Evidence of experience managing inspections, closing conferences, violation abatement, informal hearing and citation/fines to the point of closure.
• Previous experience with independent or third-party audits, including inspections, audit binders and resulting corrective actions.
• Experience with job safety analysis, trending, accident prevention techniques, handling accident investigations and post injury.
• Previous experience with training initiatives development, execution and training techniques.
• Knowledge and experience on the installation and removal of covert CCTV and other security systems.
• Highly developed organization and planning skills with the ability to prioritize work and manage multiple projects.
• Evidence of highly developed communication skills including the ability to explain or train complex technical information to a wide variety of audiences and experience interacting with all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated computer proficiency, including Microsoft Office, spreadsheet and presentation programs.
• Evidence of analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Ability to work weekends and non-traditional hours as needed.
• Safety Professional Certification (CSP) preferred
• Working knowledge of DSD delivery, restaurant operations, Food Security and defense, food fraud and GFSI auditing preferred
• Proficiency in other languages, preferably Spanish.

Additional Details:

• This position requires some travel and ability to comply with the corporate travel policies.
• Position requires availability by phone on a 24-hour basis for emergency situations.
• Exposure to plant and manufacturing conditions. Temperature, noise, and the like may be unlike those conditions found in an office environment.
• This position will work weekends and non-traditional hours as needed.

All items listed above are illustrative and not comprehensive. They are not contractual in nature and are subject to change at the discretion of Champion Foods LLC.

Champion Foods LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to that individual’s race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The Company will strive to provide reasonable accommodations to permit qualified applicants who have a need for an accommodation to participate in the hiring process (e.g., accommodations for a job interview) if so requested.

This company participates in E-Verify. Click on any of the links below to view or print the full poster. E-Verify and Right to Work.

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