Norman Bart Devries M.B.A. Email & Phone Number

Northern Utah

Logan, Utah

Direct cars, trucks and commercial sanitation vehicles to the appropriate unloading site and operate computerized scales to weigh, record, and determine appropriate charges to vehicles bringing refuse into the landfill. Assist enforcement agents in making decisions on the acceptance or rejection of loads by determining compliance with Environmental Protection Agency and State regulations. Explain fee schedules and issues associated with fees, tallies tickets for user vehicles, answers customer questions, explains policies and procedures, handles complaints, checks loads for hazardous materials, tires, and batteries; directs the proper use of recycling facilities; performs a variety of office support and cleaning activities to organize the scale house and other facilities and tallies receipts from the scale house for the office.

Ogden, Ut

Manage all aspects of high volume animal feed production mill. Conduct all internal audits including safety, maintenance, quality assurance, housekeeping, and Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Point (HACCP). Develop and oversee facility budget. Handle hiring, advancement, discipline and termination of all employees. Answer all non-compliance records from state inspection agencies. Perform all other duties as necessary and/or assigned.Lowered product shrink by 20%, saving company over $30,000 in last fiscal yearProcured and implemented over $160,000 in capital projectsImplemented 5S concept to facility

Manage all aspects of UDSA inspected beef and poultry extracts and pastes production facility. Responsibilities include oversight of all daily operations. Plant lead for ConAgra Performance (House of Quality) system, which includes safety, continuous skills development, center lining and 5S pillars. Develop and oversee facility budget. Handle hiring, advancement, discipline and termination of all employees. Represent plant during all outside audits. Maintain plant safety records and conduct employee safety training. Retain all Quality Assurance and other duties as necessary and/or assigned.Maintained 99.5% Order Fill Rate for past five years Lowered and sustained Total Incident Rate from 20.7 to 0 for over forty-one months.Team leader for automation of plant equipment controlsWon companywide contest to design Spicetec logo and slogan

Manage all quality production issues for food production facility. Represent plant for all USDA communication. Write and maintain plant Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Point (HACCP), Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOP), Lock Out tag Out (LO/TO) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) programs. Ensure all incoming ingredients and outgoing product meets plant specifications. Design and submit labels for USDA approval. Design and monitor compliance of daily production make sheets. Other duties as necessary and/or assigned. Led team responsible for plant receiving grant of USDA inspectionAuthored plant Quality System Assessment Manual which allows for export of productMaintained 99.8% First Pass Quality for past five years

Supervised all personnel from multiple shifts during the production of commercial whey based spray dried products. Directed receiving and processing of incoming product. Inventoried and purchased supplies and chemicals. Other duties as necessary and/or assigned.

Determined the effect of commercial bulk starter media on specific phenotypic characteristics of starter cultures used in the production of low-fat Cheddar cheese.Assisted in the development of pilot scale automated fermentation units.

Conducted microbiological analysis and quality control on plant equipment and edible/inedible products.Assisted in new product development.Analyzed and performed quality control on beef plant's waste effluent.Coordinated sales and maintained inventory of specific products.TRAINING/CERTIFICATES/ACKOMPLISHMENTSCertified HACCP ManagerComplete Environmental Regulations WorkshopFood Defense CoordinatorProcess Control for the Food Processing IndustryFood Laws and Regulations for Marketing in USA short course

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Master Of Science, Nutrition And Food Science; Food Microbiology With Specific Research In Dairy Starter Cultures

Bachelor Of Science, Applied Biology; Microbial Biotechnology