Key achievements: • Successfully testing food for Bacteria using Microbiological techniques, to obtain a results based outcome. These are both raw material and finished products. NATA and ISO standards are used and followed to achieve these results. • Raise OH&S issues, obtain a situation of a certain risk to employee, create a preventative and corrective action to that, then have an outcome that it will not happen again in the future. • Successfully carrying out effective guided training one on one, to achieve up skilling in people, less supervision then required. • Issue reports to clients, test the sample submitted by the client using the correct method, obtaining a result days later, then reviewing and understanding those results are valid and precise. • Responsible for daily set up of the lab, policy and procedures implementation. This is not done, then the lab does not run efficiently, and we fall behind on releasing client results within the given turnaround times. • Using the 5S model, to achieve a clean environment, precise result for all clients. • Reviewing laboratory results and if required performing further confirmation testing prior to releasing results to meet client needs• Gaps analysis knowledge, obtaining a situation, seeing where the gaps are in that policy or procedure, putting things in place to make sure the gaps are covered. • Extensive knowledge on how to use effectively, troubleshoot a situation on documentation based systems like LIMS.• Further confirmation testing performed correctly, different bacteria needs different outcomes, daily processing of them, result based driven within a certain timeframe. • Manage daily process control safely and methodical, running a live sample requires to make sure the method is working correctly.• Liaised with various clients when visiting the laboratory including providing tours of the DTS facilities.

• Manage and resolve OH&S issues on a daily basis through LIMS, giving each situation a preventative and corrective action to achieve a zero harm environment for all. • Reported and documented OH&S issues through document management system (LIMS) including, minor, major, critical risks and also workplace injuries and issues to laboratory staff. • Implementing the company values through the work we did, Safety, Customer Focus and Teamwork. Administered these through sub headings in all reports so that achievements could be discussed and results would be obtained. • Budgeted team objectives to achieve and exceed KPI’s. Estimated required amount of staff through a known team KPI, made changes if the volume of work did not meet that need. • Managed many team related WorkCover incidents, providing input and adjustment recommendations to facilitate any Return to Work plans • Applied NATA and ISO quality system implemented under the guidance of management & identified processes for continuous improvement for the laboratory. • Monitored the results of the environment through swabbing and exposure plates, to obtain a near zero outcome. This was achieved to make sure no environmental factors were altering the results. • Escalated concerning results to the senior management team, communication is the key here so that they could intervene if required. • Liaised with and responded to queries from both internal and external clients, maintaining professionalism at all time, dealing with the concern, having an outcome and making sure it is minimised for the potential time it may happens again. • Produced and provided trend analysis reporting on the Corrective Action Reports, Excel suite was used to visualise the problem, rectify the issue, and obtain an outcome. • Worked with internal teams Quality Assurance Manager & Section leaders, raising concerns across the various laboratories and action plans to resolve issues.

Responsibilities: • Operated various pieces of scientific equipment for sample testing.• Made Media for the laboratory to use. • Cleaned and sterilised glassware, to make sure staff in the Laboratory had enough as well as access to it. • Submitted sample testing results into document management system (LIMS). • Prepared samples for testing. • Ordered laboratory equipment to maintain stock levels