Careers — Safety Specialist

Safety Specialist (Entry-Level)

Prior Lake, MN

• 5832 Industrial Lane, Prior Lake, MN 55372

Port City Bakery Inc, DBA AK Pizza Crust, a privately held food manufacturer headquartered in Green Bay, WI. employing more than 600 people over multiple facilities, is hiring for its new Safety Specialist for our MN location.

Our passion is Making Great Crusts for the Top Pizza Brands throughout North America. Our 7 Core Values of Customer Focused, Opportunistic, Innovative, Profitable, Respect for One Another, Safe Products, and Productive helped us in achieving the “Advance Economic Development Manufacturing Award of Distinction” for Large Company in 2016”.

Our new Safety Specialist will serve as a representative and contributor to the environment, health and safety function for Alive & Kickin’ Pizza Crust and its subsidiaries by providing strong safety support services to the company’s operations in Production, Shipping & Receiving, Engineering, Facilities, Maintenance and Sanitation & Housekeeping. The Safety Specialist will provide regularly scheduled safety inspections and communicate deficits and suggested corrective actions, provide behavior-based safety observations and employee coaching, encouraging safety compliance. The Safety Specialist also serves as a resource to Engineering and plant management by providing job safety analysis, consultation on new production line design as well as recommendations for hazard abatement and control. The Safety Specialist will also provide timely response to incidents and provide investigations and reports, employee training and perform other duties as assigned.

General position information:

• Status: Full time, salary/exempt.

• Department: Environment, Health and Safety

• Work Schedule: Monday – Friday, office hours with occasional early and late hours as needed to cover plant shifts for training, incident investigation or other safety-related needs.

• Reports to: The EHS Manager

• Direct reports: None

Job Duties

• Participate in daily operations meetings, representing safety and reviewing concerns or incidents as needed.

• Responds to and resolves management’s questions about OSHA requirements and hazard identification and control.

• Coordinates and schedules safety training as needed.

• Weekly safety inspections.

• Works with Facilities Specialist, Maintenace, Engineering and Operations to control and abate hazards.

• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Technical skills:

• Basic knowledge of hazard identification, abatement, and control.

• Comfort with interpersonal skills required for employee training and coaching.

• Understanding and application of OSHA 1910.147, lockout/tagout: 1910.178, powered industrial vehicles, 1910.1200 hazard communications, 1910.211, 1910.212, machine guarding, general knowledge of fall protection, ladder safety, walking and working surfaces, general fall protection, blood borne pathogen exposure prevention and heat stress prevention.

• Understanding of basic industrial technology, machine operation, etc.

Required skills/abilities:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite - Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Basic understanding of OSHA 1910 standards for general industry: 10- hour certification is a plus.
• Must be able to manage multiple projects and priorities.
• Must respond to customer requests in a timely manner.
• Ability to work independently.

Education and Experience:

• An associate degree in manufacturing safety is required.
• One year of industrial safety experience is strongly preferred, although new grads will also be considered.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Prolonged standing and walking, up to 1-3 hours at a time.
• Must be able to lift up to 40 pounds at a time.