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Worked on all areas of the production lines within the factory performing tasks such as Hand Packing filled bottles of spirit into individual cartons and or outer cases, affixing neck tags, affixing tin lids to tubes . Worked in the raw material area assisting and operating case assembly, division inserting and putting cases on the production line. All areas of production you were responsible for good housekeeping being alert to HSE issues and reporting them and adhering to supplying the customer with the highest quality product and zero deficit product.Disgorging filled bottles of spirit into IBC's and disposing the waste into the recycle containers.

Chivas – Clyde Hall • Bulk Glass - Trained on Depalls, signed off on the operational and safety side, still to be assessed on counts and change overs. General cleaning duties.• Bottling Hall - Trained on Capsular on Line 1 but not signed off. Post label checking and hand packing on all lines. General cleaning duties.• Dry goods - Operate Case erectors (lines 1,2,4,7 and 8), signed off on the operational and safety side, still to be assessed on counts and change overs, inserting divisions, hand feeding prepacked/ assembled cartons. General cleaning duties.• Decant - Decanting spirits and Disposing of all waste in the correct containers, Checking all incoming stock for decant, Recording daily decant production and distributing copies. General cleaning duties.• Leven Hall - General hand packing duties on production lines, Post label checking, hand feeding Assembled Cases and glass on to production lines, Can operate some of the carton erectors. General cleaning duties.• Inbound – Stripping waste polythene from Pallets prior to being loaded on to crane for storage, and production lines. Operating Polythene bailer. General cleaning duties. • Garage – Checking works order to ensure all components are correct before Adding value to labelled spirits by repackaging into Luxury Wooden, Rigid, and Specially Printed boxes ensuring each product was finished to a very high standard. Checking and Recording on an hourly basis production of the products we are working on. General cleaning duties.Paisley • North and Central Halls Hand packing on high speed lines and General cleaning duties. • Rework – Checking works order to ensure all components are correct before Adding value to labelled spirits by repackaging into Luxury Wooden, Rigid, and Specially Printed boxes ensuring each product was finished to a very high standard. Checking and Recording on an hourly basis production of the products we are working on. General cleaning duties.

Researching and Contacting potential new clients

• Trained on End of Line quality for John Dewar & Sons• Affixing strip stamps to various sizes of bottles whisky• Examining the products for faults for misaligned, damaged or missing labels, bad or dented closures, glass defects, transit damage, • General cleaning duties.• Hand packing on the production lines

(Sheet fed Litho and Pressure Sensitive Printers)I was initially employed to generate business within the Scotch whisky market and the packaging market, in Scotland and North England where the company is not particularly known, Ormerods Ltd had only one customer in Scotland, which is Diageo.• 11 new accounts opened, Wm Grants, Gordon Macphail, Scottish Liqueur Centre, Armstrong Packaging, Adcraft, SP Containers, Frontier Medical Smurfit Kappa, 1st Packaging, Dearing Plastics, Ballerock, Spirit of the Lakes and.• New Market segments – Plastic Packaging (Clear and White) and In-Mould Labels (Frontier Medical and RPC)• Generated approximately £650,000 per annum

I was employed to generate new sales in market sectors, which the Company is not strong in. Since May 2002 I have secured 7 accounts and actively involved in developing several Whisky, Beer, Cider and Bottled Water, Toiletries and Cosmetics and large food companies.

Initially I was taken on board to develop the sales in the Scotch whisky market as the company had 2 accounts, Chivas and Campbell Distillers. Within the first month, of joining, we moved factory, bigger premises, I was responsible for organising the labour and co-ordinating where the machinery was to be located at the new site.• 5 new accounts, Burn Stewart Distillers, Ian McLeod Distillers, Douglas Laing, Ritchie UK, and McCormick as new customers• Involved in establishing new working practices and introducing various KPI’s.• Introduced new working practices to improve overall performance.• Involved in senior level negotiations with other major accounts (i.e. Edrington Distillers, Kyndal (formerly JJB).

(B1 sheet fed UV Printers)• Responsible for bringing in £1.8 million of new business and negotiating new business with Kyndal, Edrington, Inverhouse, Irish Distillers, Cooleys Distillery and Smurfit Packaging. • UDV account first year £500,000 growing to £1,200,000 in the second year• Glenmorangie account first year £ 100,000 growing to £250,000• Grants/Showerings (Ireland) account first year £ 60,000• Grew Armstrong Packaging account from £50,000 to £300,000 in the 2 and half years.

(B2 and smaller Sheet fed Conventional Printers)• Responsible for the UDV account for 2 production sites Maybole and Leicester.• Responsible for the transfer of all accounts to Leicester after a strategic decision to streamline the business.• Opened accounts such as MacDuff International, Burn Stewart Distillers, and Speyside Distillers.• Grew accounts such as Armstrong Packaging, Presentation Products, Edrington Distillers, and Campbell

• 1986 – 1990 Materials Manager –Responsible for the day-to-day ordering of all bottling materials (such as glass, closures, labels and cartons) generated by MRP for weekly and forecasted orders. Responsible for monitoring of 5 staff through constant appraisal. Producing monthly ABC analysis to ensure budgets were met and monitored. Arranged monthly/bi-monthly meetings with company Sales representatives. Implemented regular packaging meetings and discussing new products and developments with staff and sales representatives.• 1982 – 1986 Assistant Planning Manager – Responsible for the constant monitoring of daily, weekly and forecasted plans via MRP systems. Calculating on a weekly basis whisky usage, ordering and issuing weekly vatting schedule to meet the weekly production plan. Monitoring and adjusting daily line labour used on all packs. Monitoring and liaising on the progress of current orders with all Customer service personnel.• 1974 – 1982 Assistant Bottling Manager – Responsible for ensuring consistent staffing levels, on a daily basis, to meet daily and weekly production plans for the following areas Bottling Hall, Materials, Dispatch, Vat room and Advertising Store (totalling 120 employees). Introduced preventative maintenance plan in case of breakdowns within the production area. Translating weekly production plans into vatting and labour requirements and liaising with the Production planner. Filling out all Customs & Excise documentation for all bottling. Dealing with all staffing and union related problems.

• From leaving school I joined as a General store boy. I was promoted to Assistant Manager then further promotion to Manager running my own small shop.