Nathan Smith Email & Phone Number

Parker, CO, US

Salt Lake City, UT, US

Advisory Council Member of the Professional Science Masters program at the University of Utah. https://psm.utah.edu/This council is comprised of graduates from the program who volunteer to shape the strategic vision of the program and help determine the most valuable curriculum for current and future students.

I manage a team of 4 direct reports and 19 total team members (including contractors & dotted line reports) focused on execution and implementation of new products, processes, and equipment in food & beverage manufacturing factories, including QFS focused certifications and artwork approvals, across United States and Canada.I am responsible for.

Manage a team of 9 direct reports and 5 indirect reports focused on execution and implementation of new products, processes, and equipment in food & beverage manufacturing factories. I am responsible for coordinating Quality & Food Safety resource allocation for the North America (US & Canada) project portfolio of over 400 projects spread among 25 people.

Manage a team of 4 individuals with the primary responsible for the evaluation and qualification for new supplier locations. This includes conducting risk assessments comprising a review of location, performance, GFSI status and results, questionnaire review, and supply chain analysis. Assessment is used to determine if our team performs an onsite audit..

Managed a team of 5 individuals with a portfolio of ~300 ongoing projects across 17 manufacturing locations and ~60 co-manufactures/re-packers in yogurt, aseptic, ESL, plant based beverages and frozen products, cheese, fluid milk, dairy and plant based yogurt, coffee creamers, bulk food service, and on the go product categories.Team responsibilities were.

Paris, FR

Responsible for Contract Manufacturing Quality program consisting of 65+ locations. Developed risk assessment, facility management program, and reporting system that resulted in reducing complaints by 20% in one year and reducing overall risk. Focused on ensuring compliance to corporate policies and procedures in the highest risk area and establishing.

US

Responsible for Food Safety and Quality programs for 7 Safeway manufacturing facilities in the Phoenix, Denver, and Joplin MO area. The position has 7 direct report QA Supervisors who then have QA Coordinators and/or lab technicians who report to them.These plants make items such as fluid milk, cottage cheese, sour cream and sour cream based dips.

US

QA Manager responsible for 5 bread plants and 1 cake commissary with a QA Supervisor direct report in each facility. Able to receive approval to increase plant QA headcount and hired QA Coordinators in 4 of the bread plants.Products include decorated cakes, meringue and cream pies, baked breads, buns, and rolls. Responsibilities include customer complaint.

US

Responsible for Production and Shipping departments at the Denver Bread Plant including managing 4 Production Supervisors and 1 Shipping Supervisor. The plant had 2 bread lines and 1 bun line with over 70 individual SKU's and 5 customers.

US

Responsible for all plant quality and food safety programs including organic, 3rd party audits (AIB,GMA-Safe), customer audits, plant representative for all product development activities.Also worked for two years as the plant employee safety coordinator and newsletter editor.

Marshall, Minnesota, US

Facility produced fruit, cream, and meringue pies for many store brands.Managed 2 QA technicians and 19 sanitation personnel

Anaheim, CA, US

Hired and trained a 3rd shift sanitation crew which contributed to increased production and plant appearanceManaged 23 sanitation employees spread over multiple shifts and daysWrote, developed, and implemented comprehensive plant sanitation programCo-chairman of Food Safety Committee and Member of the Safety Committee

Mst, Interdisciplinary Science Instrumentation And Business

Bs, Chemistry

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