Grant Ness Email & Phone Number

Cambuslang, Scotland

Overseeing all activity on site - Carrying out site inductions, reviewing RAMS and issuing PTW's to all teams on site, Monitoring tasks through out working day. Reviewing site project plan and communicating regular updates to the client.

During my second spell at Dominos Pizza Group UK & Ire, I have been involved in a number of different positions:- Interim Ops Manager at the Penrith Supply chain Centre (Jun18-March 19), overseeing and managing the day to day tasks in all areas including Production, Warehouse & Loading and Transport- Interim Site GM at the Penrith Supply Chain centre.

Working with Orchard House Foods, Overseeing and Leading F5 shift production teams.

Supporting a Supply Chain Centre within Dominos Pizza Group UK & Ire Ltd to prepare and comply with Internal and external audit requirements.

Working at MM Flowers overseeing Internet based Flower orders

Grantham

Responsible for a 24/7 manufacturing facility consisting of 2 French fry lines, producing both coated and uncoated potato fried products, with an annual TO of £70m and supplying into most of the retailers. Accountable for delivering sustainable annual savings, totaling an annual commitment of £750K, such areas included standardising the peeling and.

Completed a fixed term 1 year contract as Manufacturing Manager for the Noodles area of the factory, comprising of 3 lines operating 24/7. Underwent a change management training process to specifically focus on sustained improvements within the factory, key achievements from this program included: Placing an off-line flow wrapping machine onto the end of.

Heading up a cross functional team consisting of 6 managers, I was fully responsible for the P&L of the factory.  Negotiated and implemented an operational restructure through shift changes resulting in increased factory and business control, team balancing and a working pattern to fit the weekly uplift amounting to £240K saving on an annual basis..

Reporting to the Financial Director, supported and led a number of site projects aimed at improving factory efficiencies and/or variances. Carried out training sessions with production staff to ensure their understanding of efficiencies, productivities and Short Interval Control sheet completion, thus driving awareness and improvements across the.

Reporting to the Site Manager, I was responsible for both Low and High care ends of the Vegetable and Fruit factories both combining to a £20m annual TO Introduced systems to order and control Labour, thus saving approximately £3000 each week. Designed and implemented performance review systems to track factory performance and trained simple CI.

Reporting to the Team Manager assisted with the hour to hour and day to day control of the preparation area within Bourne Salads, this involved measuring team performance via SIC, ensuring attainment of plan and dealing with all raw material issues on shift.

During my two year intensive graduate program I built a vast portfolio of knowledge and experience of the short shelf life industry by being exposed to various functions including Planning, CI, Projects and Operations Management.Mar 2006 – Aug 2006 Bakkavor, Bourne Salads, Backshift Section Leader in Fruit Heat Seal & Prep Sep 2005 – Mar 2006 Bakkavor.

Beng, Manufacturing Engineering & Management

Post Graduate Diploma, It