Daniel Burdett Email & Phone Number

Australia

Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Dunsandel

Responsibilities: Full financial, operational and performance accountability for the site, including manufacturing, quality, maintenance, warehousing, dispatch, purchasing, staff and safety for all assets and products manufactured on site. Ensures the foundations for the site are delivered (Safety and Quality) Drives efficiencies and a culture of excellence in the end-to-end for the site, whilst meeting product yield, cost and quality targets, and ensure the safety of the team. Drives and delivers the Site Culture and develops the capability of the people Develops and delivers against the Site Strategic Master Plan. Significant Achievements: From the start of Synlait’s Advanced Liquid milk Facility site build, I was responsible for ensuring a successful start of the department from the beginning. This included ensuring strict dairy compliance requirements were met on time, recruitment, training, development of operating systems, SOPs & the commissioning of 2 production lines (Fresh Milk & UHT Milk) The change of supply transfer for the customer from previous long-term supplier to Synlait was met with a seamless transition. Through developing a culture of zero loss in the liquid milk department, we deliver measured month on month improvements in performance across safety, quality & cost. Safety – ensuring for my lead team this is their primary focus, driving consistently high level of near miss & new hazard reporting to identify improvements needed to drive the Zero injury strategy. Cost - Reduced downtime on fresh milk bottling process from 45% to 8% in 12 months. Cost - Loss reduction program delivered $1.8 million savings & 90% reduction in plastic packaging waste. Quality - High Right First Time with month on month result regularly at 100%. Quality – 75% reduction in consumer complaints. Leading the industrialisation step of new high value innovative dairy products for the business.

Canterbury & West Coast, New Zealand

Christchurch, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

•Embed a proactive culture of Zero Harm across the site, ensuring objectives to both lead and lag measures are met.•Ensure compliance to food safety, regulatory and quality standards are continuously maintained across all production departments.•Drive a Continuous Improvement programme across operational areas of the site. •Deliver sustainable year on year cost saving on the site OPEX budget.•Manage delivery and completion of site CAPEX projects to budget.•Lead the site management team to take ownership and display strong leadership to further embed safety, quality, team working and continuous improvement into the working culture at Matua Auckland. •Through talent assessment and development planning, build succession plans for the site and wider business.•Goal Alignment - Ensure KPO’s (Key performance Objectives) are cascaded clearly through all departments and levels to individuals, giving clear alignment from individuals objectives to overall site goals.•Ensure all departments have proactive approach to training including the continual review of SOPs and training material, focus on competence and ensure training records are consistent and up to date across all areas.

Auckland, New Zealand

•Member of the factory leadership team providing strategic input to the factory objectives and KPI’s and developing the tactical plans to deliver these.•Ensure factory is aligned with corporate and legislative quality requirements by providing leadership and direction to all members of the factory.•Manage, plan and co-ordinate all functions of the Factory Quality Assurance Department. •Drive continuous improvement of product quality through use of problem solving tools and techniques.•Ensure the highest calibre quality management system is continually updated and maintained.•Manage the day to day operations of microbiology and chemistry laboratory with a high focus on the health & safety of those operating in this environment.•Manage supplier audit (SQA) programme to ensure Nestle requirements are met for high and low risk suppliers, leading and participating in audits as required.•Manage quality incidents and prevention of re-occurrence through facilitation of multifunctional teams with the drive and commitment to identify root cause.•Ensure quality assurance operation and activities are managed within the department budget and continually analysing the department operations for cost saving opportunities.•Manage compliance of the site risk management programme and transitional operating facility requirements through both internal and external verification auditing.•Coach and lead each member of the Quality Assurance team, developing individuals to their full potential, enabling their future career aspirations.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

•Manage and co-ordinate the Factory Quality Assurance Department. •Drive continuous improvement in product quality ensuring consumer satisfaction•Coordinate supplier quality (SQA) and internal auditing process to ensure quality system is effectively maintained•Manage quality failures and incidents for the factory, ensuring the issue is contained and managed to a satisfactory conclusion without negative impact on the business, root cause analysis and robust corrective actions are implemented•Ensure flawless delivery of factory quality objectives and KPI’s

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

•Ensure manufacturing and packing departments are compliant with both Nestle quality standards and FSSC22000 standards.•Responsible for the release of all confectionary to supply chain, ensuring all food safety and quality based release criteria have been met.•Consumer complaints reduction project team leader using DMAIC methodology to ensure long term sustainable improvements are made.•Deliver training on quality requirements to all levels of management, staff and production operators.•Manage quality incidents ensuring that all affected product is accounted for and that the corrective actions put in place will prevent future re-occurrence of the incident.•Ensure HACCP and quality monitoring schemes are aligned in order to maintain the consistent production of high quality products.•Responsible for HACCP studies for confectionary production

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

•Manage and drive improvements in quality, efficiency and performance across 3 large sugar confectionary manufacturing plants.•Investigate accidents and ensure appropriate corrective actions are put in place in a timely manner. Drive safety improvements through safety committee meetings and encourage operators to complete safety behavioural interventions to create a safety culture within the departments.•Daily usage of stoppage analysis tool (SAM) to analyse efficiency losses and associated downtime.•Write new and updating existing cleaning and production ‘Standard Operating Procedures’, involving risk assessing and validating that they are effective in their aim.

York, United Kingdom

•Ensure manufacturing and packing departments are compliant with Nestle quality standards, ISO9001 & HACCP standards.•Responsible for the release of all confectionary to supply chain, ensuring all food safety and quality based release criteria have been met.•Deliver training on quality requirements to all levels of management, staff and production operators.•Manage quality incidents ensuring that all affected product is accounted for and that the corrective actions put in place will prevent future re-occurrence of the incident.•Ensure HACCP and quality monitoring schemes are aligned in order to maintain the consistent production of high quality products.•Responsible for HACCP studies for confectionary production.

York, United Kingdom

•NPD Sugar and Chocolate confectionary - End to end product development and renovation from project brief, through kitchen trials and industrialisation / commissioning of production processes.•Process development – trailing and challenging pilot plant scale equipment and innovative new technologies to develop new production processes, improved efficiencies and recipe cost savings.