Daniel Stewart
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Fork Lift, Boom and Scissor lift licenses
Access Training Solutions
Experience
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Mexex
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Australia
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Food and Beverage Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Production and Engineering Manager
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Jan 2021 - Present
Ensure all functions of Production and Engineering are conducted in accordance with the schedule on a daily basis while ensuring business bottom line profits are met. • Effective rostering to schedule to ensure minimum labour cost per kilo produced. • Built a downtime report to ensure collection of data for review and focus resulting in a reduction in overall downtime by 15% in the past year through continued focus on developing a preventative maintenance schedule. • Creation of Efficiency Dashboard to reflect accurate schedule compliance, waste, labour spend verse kilo produced. • Initiated a yield reduction project resulting in a 1.1 million dollar saving per annum. • Development initiatives to ensure role succession for key areas. • Develop an inclusive and diverse culture of inclusion and excellence. • Drive a safety culture with the implementation of safety walks and re engaging the safety committee. Show less
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Adelaide Processors
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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Factory Manager
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2019 - Dec 2020
Managing the preparation of local and export loads within my role includes, but is not limited to, weighing products, chemical acquisitions, controlling onsite Effluent (ensuring compliance with SA water guidelines), while maintaining efficiencies across all areas of the Factory. Assisting in the coordination of all functions across the Tannery, communicating with nationwide suppliers and producing all documentation, batch traceability as well as collating the associated federal transport documentation. • Adapting previous experience to a new industry learning a new process from the ground up, while still maintaining production outputs and delivery on time. • Managing high turnover in a challenging environment by drawing on skill across the plant to balance production and customer needs while continuously recruiting and training new employees. Show less
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PepsiCo
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United States
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Food and Beverage Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Night Shift Front Line Manager
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2011 - 2019
Autonomous management of the night shift production teams including production, raw materials, engineering and distribution. Effective rostering of 5 FMCG potato and grain lines minimizing operating overheads with a proven high focus on safety management, balancing team morale while still achieving business bottom line performance and profit targets with a high quality focus on customer and brand protection . • Championed OEE and waste management roll out including execution of a digital Thingworks program to ensure global adherence to net efficiency above 85% and true efficiency above 95%. • Lead the development and implementation of site lean improvement objectives including six sigma workshops resulting in 7% increase in line start up on time efficiency and time in motion studies resulting in a 13% reduction in line changeover times. • A high focus on safety and quality with minimal upper management involvement assisting to achieve 7.5 years LTI free across the site and 0 LTI days from any direct reports. Control of the hold and release process on shift ensuring all breaches were contained in a timely manner ensuring minimal impact to production while maintaining 100% accuracy of product sent to customers. Show less
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Salad Fresh
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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Manufacturing Manager
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2011 - 2012
Responsible for all Hygiene sensitive areas of the plant, ensuring strict compliance to process and procedure. Effective rostering and production scheduling based on unknown daily raw goods deliveries from local farms. • Developed visual OEE monitoring system and worked closely with production and engineering departments to achieve an average 2.4% increase in overall efficiency across 10 production lines. • Effective succession planning achieved with direct reports to ensure key role coverage. Show less
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Priestley's Gourmet Delights
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Australia
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Food and Beverage Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Shift Manager
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2003 - 2011
Priestley’s is a family owned industrial bakery supplying high end cakes, slices and muffins. Customer base includes Mc Café, Coffee Club and Gloria Geans, eventually branching out to supply Dominoes deserts and create opportunity in the Asia Pacific region. • Introduced automation into the business by resurrecting existing technology to suit current production needs resulting in efficiencies of up to 80%. • Designed an automated digital system to expand the business capability, working closely with engineers to build custom machines allowing the introduction of high paced lines capable of supplying local and overseas markets. • Built on the implementation of a homogenization system to meet an expanding market along with inventing an automated layered cake machine capable of 3 cakes per minute creating opportunity to branch into the Asia Pacific region. • Assisted in the design of a purpose build factory in New Zealand to create product supply efficiencies to the Asia Pacific region. Show less
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Haigh's Chocolates
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Australia
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Retail
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100 - 200 Employee
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Senior Confectioner
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1996 - 2003
While working to successfully attain certification as a Master Confectioner my role included the ongoing responsibility of the training and development of future apprentices within the business. • Efficiently able to move through all section within the company, packing, blocking, moulding, enrobing, chocolate mould depositing, chocolate production and confectionary manufacturing. • Supervised Afternoon shift where required. • Responsible for late night additions to chocolate. • Quality control committee member. Show less
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