Daniel Mellor
Bolton
Summary
Decisive and effective technical manager skilled in leading cross-functional teams to meet customer demands and deadlines. Accomplished in streamlining technical processes, project planning, and training and development. Managing a core team of quality managers and QA technicians and through the continual management, development and auditing of the Quality Management System to ensure that effective process control systems and procedures are in place to deliver consistent, safe and robust control of all products. Working closely with the Bakery Management team to ensure all Customer, Food Safety, Quality and Legal requirements are met and controlled.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work history
Site Technical Manager
David Wood Baking Ltd
Kearsley
2022.01 - 2026.02
- Site HACCP Team Leader
- Administration, control and monitoring of site HACCP procedures and training. Audit and review of, Quality Management Systems, Risk Assessments, Verification and Validation systems in place for all products and processes.
- Installation, development, administration and audit of the Quality Management System across the site. With the TQMS reviewed regularly and updated accordingly.
- Working closely with and advising manufacturing departments on technical/quality aspects, including food safety and quality legislation, weight management procedures, product protection and pest control, organoleptic compliance, hygienic design and sanitation systems.
- Auditing and Monitoring all Supplier SAQ’s and Supplier performance, including risk rating and closing out non-conformance in a timely manner. Ensuring customer Specifications are up to date and completed diligently. Web based customer portal systems are maintained and controlled. Review of sub-contractor performance ratings, including periodic written reviews to prove performance.
- Management of QA raw material intake. Collaboration with Supply chain and Stores/Goods in team to ensure all Raw Materials are supplied to site in specification.
- Management of the site BRCGS Audit for site. Ensuring the audit is professionally organised and controlled.
- Investigation, identification and advice on prevention of consumer / customer complaints. Ensuring monthly complaints meetings are in place and include trending and communication of all complaints. Communication of complaints to the site management teams weekly, highlighting any identified trends.
- Managing site food safety and quality training across all teams.
- Ensuring that a full Product Process review program in place to monitor and highlight any issue on process, ingredients, and finished product. All NPD, trials, launches and recipe modifications are attended and monitored by the technical team and comprehensive trial reports written and any changes identified are followed through to final specifications/testing.
- Responsible for ensuring testing regimes for micro, environmental swabbing, meat species testing, raw material testing and calibration are in place and analysis / reporting of resultant information
Quality Manager
David Wood Baking Ltd
Kearsley
2018.01 - 2022.01
- Management of the QA function within the department allocating QA duties across the team.
- Conducting site GMP and fabrication audits daily within the factory and closing out actions raised
- Implementation and review of quality improvement plans
- Interpretation and trending of micro analysis, compiling reports and scheduling out of specification retests, setting swabbing schedules and swab points to verify effectiveness of hygiene on site versus best practice and customer requirements.
- Complaint trending and reporting, completion of root cause investigations, supporting foreign body reviews and reporting investigation findings and corrective actions back to the customer or authorities
- Compilation of retailer scorecards and dashboards for monthly KPI reports.
Packing Manager
David Wood Baking Ltd
Kearsley
2016.05 - 2018.01
- Plan and coordinate manpower to meet aggressive schedules according to production plan and adapting to changes of plan
- Participated in new projects and lead a successful team, delivering on time, good quality products to the customer
- Managing stocks and making sure they are correct to fulfil plan attainment
- Developed inter shift relationships, helping my shift to work together more cohesively towards a common goal.
- Managing shift health and safety, reporting any issues and carrying out safety and risk assessments.
- Liaison with the Quality Assurance team to maintain good quality standards.
Ambient Section Manager
Park Cake Bakeries
Oldham
2009.09 - 2015.06
- Successfully managed production activities ensuring orders were sent to dispatch on time.
- Investigated and implemented ideas for quality improvement, increased productivity and cost reduction.
- Managed documentation and training on production procedures and work instructions.
- Verified that all process control parameters were being documented and always diligently followed.
- Planned, directed, coordinated and assigned manpower to meet aggressive production schedules as well as liaising with agencies to allocate the right staff required for the next day’s production, at seasonal times this could be in excess of 200 people.
- Defined manufacturing performance standards and reviewed the outcome of performance goals to set future targets.
- Directed improvements in safety, product quality, service and cost efficiency.
- Escalation of food safety and quality issues and initiation of remedial actions promptly.
- Lead CI projects within the bakery, increasing productivity and efficiencies on a chocolate component line by 22%, reducing overall time to produce these components and decreasing returns back to the line.
- Managed all aspects of the component line from planning a 2-week stock, liaising with the Bolton Site and communicating the amounts required for their production runs. Ensuring all departments and production lines had the required amount and the quality of components that they needed. Working against actual and SAP stocks and readjusting on SAP when required.
- Using SAP on a day-to-day basis looking at stocks and looking at cost variances from different lines and products throughout the bakery checking against all products that have been sent to dispatch using SU numbers and making sure that these finished goods have RFID, aiming for a 100% compliance.
- Leading meetings with chargehands to go through the previous day’s KPI figures, going through productivity, efficiencies and waste margins per line, discussing on any issues that may need action, whether a QA, health and safety or an engineering issue that could improve targets, reporting of the overall shifts performance and any lost hours that may have not been recorded on the SIC sheets
- Identified training needs, making sure that the team was multi-functional and could operate efficiently and effectively.
Team Leader
Park Cake Bakeries
Oldham
2004.07 - 2009.09
- Fulfilling plan attainment and directing operatives to get plan achieved.
- Liaising with manager and reporting any issues in area of work.
- Managing health and safety aspects reporting any issues and carrying out safety and risk assessments.
- Liaising with Quality Assurance maintaining high quality standards set.
- Directing the manufacturing process and operational efficiency procedures to achieve goal of first run capability.
- Stock control throughout the bakery and stock adjustments on SAP
Education
A Level - Psychology and Geography and an AS Level in combined Politics, Law and Sociology
Burnley College
2002.09 - 7 2004
High School - undefined
Fearns Community High School
1997.09 - 7 2002
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Skills
- Strong leadership abilities
- Excellent organisational skills
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Adaptable in challenging situations
- Troubleshooting and problem solving
REFERENCES
Available on request
INTERESTS & HOBBIES
I am very interested in travelling to new places and experiencing new cultures, trying new activities and foods, I enjoy reading, in particular psychological thrillers, and broadening my knowledge, I enjoy being around my friends and family socially and seeing them as often as I can
Timeline
Site Technical Manager
David Wood Baking Ltd
2022.01 - 2026.02
Quality Manager
David Wood Baking Ltd
2018.01 - 2022.01
Packing Manager
David Wood Baking Ltd
2016.05 - 2018.01
Ambient Section Manager
Park Cake Bakeries
2009.09 - 2015.06
Team Leader
Park Cake Bakeries
2004.07 - 2009.09
A Level - Psychology and Geography and an AS Level in combined Politics, Law and Sociology
Burnley College
2002.09 - 7 2004
High School - undefined
Fearns Community High School
1997.09 - 7 2002