Deivydas Bartkevicius
Thetford,Norfolk
Summary
Quality Manager with 14+ years experience in high/low risk food manufacturing premises. Excellent knowledge of Technical, Operations and Development environment due career promotions over the years. Team development and engagement oriented, delivering maximum efficiency in product supply, plan and time management with minimum waste. Highly motivated, fast learning, hard working and customer satisfaction orientated.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work history
Quality Manager
Ichiban Uk
Stowmarket, Suffolk
2025.01 - Current
- Strategic Team Restructuring: Successfully restructured entire QA team shift hierarchy and schedule to ensure 100% alignment with business needs and production throughput.
- Operational Efficiency: Optimized labor allocation, resulting in better technical coverage during critical high-care processing windows.
- High-Care compliance: Managing rigorous food safety and quality standards specific to sushi production, focussing on microbiological safety and ingredient integrity.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborating closely with Operations and Supply Chain to ensure quality standards are integrated into daily production flow without compromising efficiency.
Quality Manager
Pilgrims Food Masters
Attleborough, Norfolk
2024.04 - 2025.01
- Contributed to key decision‑making during the development of the new High Care facility and played a central role in critical validation activities to ensure the area met all operational and compliance requirements.
- Led company-wide quality campaigns, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
- Managed audits of manufacturing operations, ensuring compliance with industry regulations.
- Ensured consistency in product quality with regular inspections, tests and customer sensory taste panels.
Quality Assurance Manager
Cranswick Plc
Watton, Norfolk
2021.06 - 2024.03
- Managing team of 27 highly trained quality auditors and 3 supervisors across all different processing plants and different shift patterns.
- Innovating and updating internal factory documentation to comply with customer standards.
- Managing annual allergen and speciation validations.
- Directly engaging and motivating all staff to increase productivity.
- Directly involved with all customer audits.
Shift QA Manager
2 Sisters Food Group
Thetford, Norfolk
2020.06 - 2021.06
- Exceptional dedication to customer complaints analysis and root cause find, 70% deduction in last 12 month.
- Strong commitment to team development and overall internal work relationships, crisis and conflict management.
- Leading by example, IOSH managing safely trained.
- Full control of EU/UK export requirements, daily stock management.
- Always audit ready mindset, last two year BRC audit scores - AA.
Production Front Line Manager
2 Sister Food Group
Thetford, Norfolk
2019.06 - 2020.06
- Short life stock rotation management up to 550 tones per week.
- Timely raw product supply into extremely fast-paced fry lines.
- Lead and facilitate individuals and teams to deliver optimal levels of performance on cost, resource, service requirements.
- Ensure that development and training needs of individuals are consistently applied to create proactive environment of learning through relevant documentation.
- Actively engage individuals and teams in Safety First culture, managing people effectively through robust leadership skills.
Food Safety Co-ordinator
Karro Foods Group
Haverhill, Suffolk
2017.10 - 2019.06
- To coordinate sampling for Microbial and Compositional testing, collate, interpret, maintain and trend data derived from test reports.
- Provide testing service for brine release and curing checks for process.
- Carry out Environmental sampling.
- Co-ordinate internal complaints, maintain logs and internal complaint summaries and trends.
- Issue product batch deviations to process in absence of Food Safety Manager.
- Co-ordinate with NPD regarding nutritional and shelf life trials.
- Provide cover for QA’s when required.
NPD Assistant
Karro Foods Group
Haverhill, Suffolk
2015.10 - 2017.10
- Assisting all projects are delivered in consistent manner and according to agreed procedures, specifications and relevant legislation.
- Assist NPD and Technical team members as well as interact with factory personnel in carrying out production trials.
- Ensuring that product development area is spotlessly clean in line with hygiene rules and all equipment are operated and kept in good working order.
Education
Certified in First Aid, With Practical Training
First Aid
06.2025
Food Safety Award In Level 3 - Food Safety
Yore Learning
2025
HACCP Award In Level 3 - Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point in Food Manufacturing
Yore Learning
2025
IOSH Managing Safely
Institution of Occupational Safety and Health
Thetford03.2020
Effective Auditing & Inspection Skills Award in Level 3 - Effective Auditing and Inspection
Highfield Qualifications
2018
GCSEs - Geodesy And Lanskaping
Zemaitijos College
2010
Skills
- Hands On, people manager
- Advance knowledge of hygiene and food safety
- Attention to details
- Problem solving
- Positive attitude
- Extremely result focused
Additional Information
Languages:
Lithuanian (native)
English (excellent)
Russian (average)
Timeline
Quality Manager
Ichiban Uk
2025.01 - Current
Quality Manager
Pilgrims Food Masters
2024.04 - 2025.01
Quality Assurance Manager
Cranswick Plc
2021.06 - 2024.03
Shift QA Manager
2 Sisters Food Group
2020.06 - 2021.06
Production Front Line Manager
2 Sister Food Group
2019.06 - 2020.06
Food Safety Co-ordinator
Karro Foods Group
2017.10 - 2019.06
NPD Assistant
Karro Foods Group
2015.10 - 2017.10
Certified in First Aid, With Practical Training
First Aid
Food Safety Award In Level 3 - Food Safety
Yore Learning
HACCP Award In Level 3 - Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point in Food Manufacturing
Yore Learning
IOSH Managing Safely
Institution of Occupational Safety and Health
Effective Auditing & Inspection Skills Award in Level 3 - Effective Auditing and Inspection
Highfield Qualifications
GCSEs - Geodesy And Lanskaping
Zemaitijos College