Quality Leader responsible for building a quality system from the ground up for a young and rapidly expanding craft brewery.Project management and equipment commissioning including can and keg filling equipment install, cellar expansion and utilities upgrades.Subject matter expert for ERP, implementing improved system and working with vendor to resolve issues.

Quality Leader responsible for managing the sensory strategy for Lion Adult Beverages, comprising of 5 large, 4 medium and numerous small sized breweries in the ANZ region.Coordinating 5 regional Sensory Leaders, guiding the product tasting and taster training activities, while also managing a central group panel.Providing specialist analytical and technical support to the network as required, being called upon as a technical expert for problem solving, risk assessments and technical improvement projects.

Responsible for ensuring supplier compliance to Lion quality standards and processes, managing supplier evaluations, auditing and approval programs, and providing recommendations relating to technical / quality capability of third-party manufacturers, packaging suppliers, ingredient suppliers and brokers.Contributing to and executing the Supplier Audit Plan, reporting and self-assessments, as well as assessing and enabling supplier compliance to quality expectations through supplier feedback.Developing, reviewing and implementing documented Supplier Quality policies and procedures.Improving and reporting on supplier quality metrics, including critical supplier ratings and DMR’s/NCR’s.

Provided support to 5 high speed beer packaging lines for Tooheys, ensuring raw materials were fit to run and feeding issues back to suppliers when they weren’t.Raised an average of 5 major quality incidents a month holding hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of defective stock from reaching the market. Led a project which questioned lack of confidence in quality systems, ultimately changing approach to running bottle fillers during start-up QA checks. This increased line availability by 1600 minutes a year. Streamlined monthly reporting reducing time required by 85%.

Successfully ran operations of the Little Creatures semi-automated 100HL brewhouse fermentation cellar and candle filter processing up to 18 brews per week. Troubleshooting of equipment failures, including minor repairs.Trained junior staff in the operation of the brewery including writing procedures. Improved workflow of weekly stocktake and raw material forecasting, both reducing the time required and the accuracy of forecast.

Provided laboratory support for the James Boag and Son Brewery, producing 70ML of beer a year and performed all routine and ad-hoc analysis of in-processing and finished beer to schedule. Maintained instrumentation, including diagnosing and repairing faults.Led a project to train production line staff in the operation of a satellite laboratory, including writing procedures and performing competency assessments.

Developed new line of metal protection paints with improved stability characteristics in six-months. Led project to reduce waste by reprocessing out-of-specification product into a different product line. Testing and benchmarking of competitor products.

Streamlined inventory reporting for WIND Mobile, reducing time required for reports by 90%Identified systems integration issues between retail and back office systems for 80 WIND storesSet up printing office and printed more than 10,000 security badges for the G8 and G20 summitsSet up and monitored secure network connections for G20 photo shoots at hotels and other sites

Developed two new products allowing PPG to enter lucrative new market segmentsCalibrated and maintained laboratory equipmentImplemented formulation changes resulting in over $50,000 per annum cost reductions

Increased filtration right-first-time KPI from 30% to 60%Increased yield of saleable waste by-product increasing profits by $100,000Discovered flaw in oxygen sensing equipment causing damage costing tens of thousands of dollars