Food Industry Interim Manager - Technical, Quality Assurance, BRC, EFSIS, HACCP & Specifications
Food Industry Interim Manager - Technical, Quality Assurance, BRC, EFSIS, HACCP & Specifications |
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OVERVIEW Since graduating with a first class honours degree in Food Quality in 1997 I have mainly worked in interim roles providing short-term cover or a specialist resource in Technical, Quality, Operations and Development functions. With experience of all the major retailers, numerous food groups and a host of different organisations (large and small) I can quickly adapt to new environments and “hit the ground running”.
KEY SKILLS
CAREER Interim QA Manager
Cumbrian Seafods,
Seaham, County Durham – Chilled Fish & Ready-To-Eat Seafood Developed processes and systems in line with BRC v5 and retailer requirements. Encouraged best practice and promoted a quality focus. HACCP, internal specifications, procedure writing, form design and training for new product launches and transfers. Conducted GMP, Hygiene and quality audits. Managed, trained and developed 6 QAs.
Rich Complements,
Ripon, North Yorkshire – Chilled Sandwich Fillings Designed and implemented an EFSIS quality management system and a HACCP system. Raised production and hygiene standards. Improved product labelling, specifications, microbiological testing and customer satisfaction.
Cavaghan & Gray (Northern Foods),
Hull, East Yorkshire – Chilled Ready Meals Product specifications and artwork checks for Asda (Web-Traqs).
Trained NPD staff to correctly calculate ingredient declarations and
accurately check
R&R Ice Cream, Northallerton, North Yorkshire – Ice Cream & Frozen Desserts
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Pro-Pak Foods,
Malton, North Yorkshire – Maintained the EFSIS certified quality system. Process improvement and troubleshooting. Conducted regular hygiene and quality audits.
Raised morale amongst the 9 members of the quality assurance team.
Uniq Prepared Foods, Newton
Abbot, Devon – Chilled Dairy Desserts Quality systems development and process improvement. Conducted HACCP, GMP and quality audits. Web-based retailer specifications and training NPD staff to use the various specification systems. Jointly responsible for 6 QAs.
QSA (GNX), St. Albans,
Hertfordshire – Specification Software Developers Systems analysis and business case scenario testing of ProductVine CPD software for Sainsburys and FIND for M&S.
RF Brookes, Rogerstone, Gwent –
Chilled Ready Meals Project management of meal bag range launch for Morrisons. Recipe and process development, shelf-life trials, staff training and procedure writing for their new Blendtech rice cooker.
RF Brookes, Rogerstone, Gwent –
Chilled Ready Meals Factory scale-up of Morrison’s chilled ready meals including co-ordinating factory trials, completing specifications, artwork checking/sign-off and managing first productions.
RWI Catering, Poole, Dorset –
Catering & Vending Technical, operational and business support during the set-up of the business; including product development, ingredient declarations, costings and a Sage accounting system.
Uniq Prepared Foods, Newton
Abbot, Devon – Chilled Dairy Desserts Designed and implemented a BRC higher-level quality management system and HACCP system for a new manufacturing site. Jointly responsible for 3 QAs.
Hazlewood Pizza, Deeside,
Flintshire – Chilled Pizzas Completed product specifications for major retail customers on QSA, Web-Traqs, Hamilton Grant, etc. HARA approval of all new ingredients and processes. Co-ordinated the activities of 4 development technologists.
Richmond Ice Cream, Leeds, Yorkshire – Ice Cream & Iced Lollies Organised technical information on the QSA database and completed product specifications for all the major retailers.
Developed functional spreadsheets to
aid the NPD process, procedure writing and staff training.
Merck Specialty Chemicals,
Rochester, Kent – Vitamin & Mineral Premixes Designed and implemented of a new integrated ISO 9001 quality management system across 3 sites. Interim management of the QMS and Quality Assurance function at the main manufacturing site.
MH Foods, Dartford, Kent – Oil
Products, Sauces & Salad Dressings. Overall responsibility for Production, Purchasing, Logistics, QA, NPD, Hygiene and HR departments – managed approximately 40 staff. Optimised operational activities to minimise costs and increase profitability. Commissioned a new production area, two packing lines and a bespoke computer system.
Avance Bakeries (Primebake),
Maidstone, Kent – Long Life Breads & Croissants Managed QA, purchasing, hygiene and customer services; responsible for 5 QAs and 3 Hygiene staff. Major re-development of the quality and HACCP systems to achieve BRC higher standard. Installed new process equipment, co-ordinated factory trials and first production for Sainsburys. Audited suppliers and service providers.
Manor Bakeries, Eastleigh,
Hampshire – Ambient Cakes Managed 500 retailer and branded (Mr Kipling, Cadbury & Lyons) product specifications across 4 sites. Responsible for 2 technologists. Co-ordination and sign-off of new packaging artwork. Liaison with Customs & Excise and Trading Standards. Responding to customer enquiries and complaints.
Esso Petroleum, Fawley, Hampshire
– Fuel & Petrochemicals Major redevelopment of the ISO 9002 quality system. Installation of new test equipment, test method development procedure writing & staff training.
Ryvita, Poole, Dorset –
Crispbreads & Breakfast Cereals Maintained and developed the ISO 9002 quality and HACCP systems. Responsible for 3 QAs and 1 Goods In Inspector.
Merck Limited, Poole, Dorset – Laboratory Reagents & Liquid Crystals. AA, HPLC, GLC, HPTLC, Karl Fischer, UV and IR spectroscopy and bench chemistry. EDUCATION & TRAINING
Quality Management Systems, Consumer Science, Quality Assurance, Food Legislation, Food Science,
Food Processing, Product
Development, Nutrition, Microbiology and Statistical Techniques.
Physics - B Biology -
B Chemistry - C
7261-205 Visual Basic Module 1 and
7261-225 Visual Basic Module 2.
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