Robert Stainer Email & Phone Number

Gweek, England, United Kingdom

Enjoying working part time to support the technical department in a local Cornish company, sailing and walking in my days off- great work/life balance!

London Heathrow

After a career break of 6 months, I went back in my previous role on an interim basis, until a permanent replacement was employed.

Heathrow, England, United Kingdom

Greenham, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Head of Technical and Hygiene departments

Northampton, United Kingdom

Dedicated M&S site for sandwiches, salads, sushi and wraps, comprising 5 separate units/factories. Technical Manager overseeing technical team in each of the units in rotation.

Northampton, United Kingdom

Senior Technical Manager for two sites at Northampton and Chandlers Ford.

Redruth, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Bacon manufacturer and packer. Retail and food service customers include Tesco, Co-op, McDonalds, M&S, Greggs, Yum.Technical Manager for the Redruth site (circa 500 employees)• Directing Technical, QA, day and nightshift hygiene departments, (around 70 direct reports).• Managing a budget of circa £250K, focus on cost control and reduction, including head count rationalisation.• HACCP lead for the site• CI on existing processes – RCA to resolve long standing technical and quality issues, risk analysing QA and technical processes to deliver greatest benefit.• Key project driver on site to move to paperless quality checks, moving to an automated QMS, so reducing administration time.• Coaching/mentoring team members. Improving delivery of technical messaging/feedback to various departments• Leading external audits. Technical liaison with key customer contacts/TMs on a frequent basis, building and managing relationships• Setting of policies, procedures, quality objectives and KPIs for the site• Member of the cross-site project team to harmonise key systems• Escalating internal technical trends at a senior level to drive essential improvement plans• PDR, objective setting for the site, department and individuals.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Tea Manufacturer to major retailers and food service customers, including Sainsburys, Booker, Aldi, Whittards, Wedgewood. Technical Manager across 2 manufacturing sites- Dorset and Newcastle• Head of Technical department for a two-site operation, Quality Managers and QA personnel at each location reporting directly. Reporting directly to UK MD and international CEO.• Health and Safety Manager, leading a multifunctional team to achieve KPI targets for the business.• Responsible for strategic improvements in quality systems across both sites. Lead on HACCP and food safety and hygiene training. • Overall responsibility for meeting retailer and third-party standards/codes and audits, key contact for customers, government and regulatory bodies.• Regulatory and legal contact for relevant UK/EU legislation, updating and revising internal guidelines where required, advising customers where necessary. Liaison with legal bodies for other country specific legislation (e.g. Japan, China) plus artwork verification in relation to FIR guidelines for customers.• Objective setting and regular performance review for Quality managers.• Budgetary control for technical spend, third party testing. Raising of Capex for internal projects.• Ethical Manager for the business, liaising with ETI, Fairtrade and RFA.• Implemented supplier assurance controls, fraud/vulnerability risk assessment on high risk materials.

Andover, Hampshire

• Global auditor and supplier assurance for all Twinings sites. Responsible for controlling a team of lead auditors globally (located in China, India, US and Australia).• Responsible for food safety and quality audits throughout the supply chain- all raw materials (including high risk and low risk materials), packaging, contract packing and warehousing. • Support on global ethical audit assurance with key suppliers.• Lead manager on organic and Fairtrade systems across all manufacturing sites.• Liaison with all Twinings departments to achieve supplier management with other global markets – e.g. Japan, Russia, Africa, Iran• Implementation of BRC at warehousing and contact packing sites in UK and Ireland. Technical consultant for implementing SQF standard at US warehouse• Remit also extended to supporting Ovaltine colleagues in Switzerland, Nigeria, China and Thailand• Key member of ABF vendor assurance working group

Andover

• Implemented BRC from outset at Head Office manufacturing site, including updating basic HACCP system to consistently achieve Grade A • Responsible for the site quality team and systems, departmental budget, capex for several projects as detailed above• Interface with global markets, EHO, trading standards, foodservice customers such as Kraft and Mars.• Technical/Quality lead for both UK Twinings manufacturing sites for Fortnum and Mason.• Development of Twinings internal quality standards for Fortnum and Mason’s products.• Consumer complaint reduction YOY• Management facilitator and trouble-shooter for a key manufacturing team. • Development and implementation of trial process for new materials, supplier quality cost and monitoring system

Chichester And Evercreech

Manufacturer of high risk, short life dairy and chilled desserts, chilled savoury products to retailers/foodservice such as M&S, JS, Waitrose, Cadburys.• Responsible for resolution of quality issues and continuous improvement in the Marks & Spencer’s, Sainsbury’s, Cadbury’s and Waitrose business units• Development, auditing and maintenance of HACCPs, product specifications and systems of work• Technical training of factory personnel in key quality and food safety aspects, including routine briefings and communication to staff on internal non-conformances, consumer/customer complaints • Management of the raw materials entrance control team. • Investigation of customer complaints and non-conformances, management of data and trends. Action planning and resolution to enable CI across engineering, manufacturing, quality/laboratory and R&D functions• Supplier liaison and management to improve poor performing suppliers, supplier auditing.• Regular finished product tasting/scoring as part of positive release protocol.