Derek Gamble Email & Phone Number

Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia

Western Australia, Australia

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Maternity cover contract

Perth, Australia

Employed as a member of the senior leadership team responsible for the development, implementation and maintenance of the Food Safety and Quality Systems for Oat Milling plant including - SQF, FSSC 22000, HACCP, AIB, PepsiCo QAS & HAS (Halal Assurance System).Key Responsibilities • Provided technical expertise and management of the Quality team and food safety programs.• Lead the site internal auditing program to identify and rectify areas of opportunity and non-conformances.• Managed the collection and analysis of data for KPI’s and implemented necessary actions to meet or exceed targets.• Ensured compliance to company, legislative and customer requirements and specifications.• Maintained internal and external relationships and communications with business departments, stakeholders and regulatory bodies

Quaker Oats Australia & The Smiths Snackfood Company

WA Quality Manager responsible for joint management of Quaker Oats Australia Forrestfield and The Smiths Snackfood Company Canning Vale production facilities. Member of the senior leadership team at both sites to maintain food safety and quality systems and management of 2 quality teams.

Embleton, Wa

Employed as a member of the Quality team, the role was to ensure the ongoing compliance, review and continuous improvement of the food safety and quality programs and provide technical expertise for the development of the retail packaging innovation program.Key Responsibilities• Lead the Retail Packaging Innovation Team for development of new retail packaging line.• Collected and analysed data to ensure compliance to program requirements and, where necessary, implemented corrective actions when deviation from program occurred.• Developed, implemented and conducted training for standard operating procedures and work instructions.• Lead customer and consumer complaint investigations and took corrective actions to prevent reoccurrence.

Malaga Wa

A medium sized business that required the need to implement a food safety program to reflect the changing consumer and regulatory demands. Employed as the sole food safety expert there was no existing food safety program, developed and implemented a program to meet consumer and legislative requirements.Key Responsibilities• Developed and implemented a robust food safety program to meet strict legislative requirements.• Developed and conducted process/product validation program including shelf life and packaging specifications.• Developed, implemented and conducted training for standard operating procedures and work instructions.• Managed internal and external audit program and maintained excellent working relationships with regulatory bodies.