Experience

Tasman Bay Food Co.

• New Zealand
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Manager

  • Mar 2014 - Present

  • Management and maintenance of the Food Safety and Quality Systems including Approved Supplier Programme. • Ensuring verification activities are carried out as per schedule including Listeria monitoring programme. • Internal Auditing and Site Inspections. • Preparing and circulating a monthly Quality report to senior management and staff - this includes a ‘quality scorecard’ against company’s quality objectives and trend charts. • HACCP Coordinator and ‘SQF Practitioner’. • Liaising with external certification bodies to maintain certification to Food Safety, Organic and Halal standards. • Investigation and corrective action for customer complaints, quality and food safety issues including root cause analysis where required. • Assisting the production team with induction and training of staff in quality and food safety related topics Show less



Sealord Group Ltd

• New Zealand
• Fisheries
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Project Coordinator

  • Jan 2006 - Jul 2006

  • Coordinating the review, updating and approval of Safe Operating Procedures (SOP’s) for Processing Plants and Engineering Departments in Nelson and Dunedin. This involved interacting with a wide range of employees in order to gain accurate and relevant information as well as create ‘buy in’ and ownership from the employees • Appointing and managing three project facilitators on a 6-month contract to work on the project. • Liaising with many departments to set up a training system and register for ongoing maintenance of the SOP’s. • Accessing progress to timeline and monitoring milestones. Show less



Mrs Crockets Kitchen Pty

• Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• Quality Manager

  • May 2005 - Oct 2005

  • Staff management (8 direct reports) – recruitment and performance management. • Investigation and corrective action for customer complaints. • Resolution of daily quality and food safety issues. • Food safety, GMP & Quality Systems. • Internal Auditing. • Supplier Auditing. • Staff management (8 direct reports) – recruitment and performance management. • Investigation and corrective action for customer complaints. • Resolution of daily quality and food safety issues. • Food safety, GMP & Quality Systems. • Internal Auditing. • Supplier Auditing.



OSI International Foods Ltd

• Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• Production Manager

  • Apr 2004 - Jan 2005

  • Staff management (7 direct reports, total production/logistics department of 80 staff) • Production scheduling • KPI reporting • Recruitment of staff • Performance management • Staff management (7 direct reports, total production/logistics department of 80 staff) • Production scheduling • KPI reporting • Recruitment of staff • Performance management



Glovers Foods Ltd

• Technical Manager

  • Jan 2003 - Apr 2004

  • Staff management (6 direct reports) – recruitment and performance management• Food safety, GMP & Quality Systems (MAF and Customer relationship) • Research & development projects including NPD (new product development)• Technical department budget & monthly reporting• Coordination of supplier auditing (food safety systems and animal welfare)• Set annual objectives for department• KPI reporting – internal, zone office and customer• Design and implementation of Glovers Quality Systems (including HACCP, RMP and GMP)• Re-establishment of MAF and Customer (McDonald’s) relationship (focus on quality, consistency, confidence and compliance)• Coordinated changes in QA team as part of Glovers-wide restructure Show less

• Quality Manager

  • Mar 2001 - Dec 2002

• Quality Assurance Supervisor

  • Apr 1999 - Feb 2001