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Working under the guidance of the current two senior production managers, responsibilities are as follows:Production planning - Creating daily production plans for the processing of 1.5 million litres of milk a day, at peak. Continuously adjusting based on CIP requirements, unplanned downtime and availability. Distribution - Coordinating the logistical operations of 200+ tonnes of product a day, moving to both external storage and customers.Traceability - Implementing processes to allow automatic traceability of all products, to conform to Department of Agriculture standards.Process loss - Increasing plant efficiency through reduction of product losses. Achieved through operator education, adjustment and refining of CIP systems and increased machinery automation.5S - Standardization of the workplace.Clerical duties - Wages, holiday requests, new employee orientationAudits - Preparing the plant, readying and presenting historical data as required and accompanying auditors on site visits,Origin Green - Striving to reach targets set in place, in accordance with Bord Bia.

Joined as part of 12 month graduate program.Carried out training in all sectors of plant, abattoir, boning hall etcOnce training completed, moved onto commercial stock management and analysis.Graduated to group production planning.Carried out 6 Sigma/Lean Management training, and moved on to implementing green belt project.Duties included:• Engineer ‘field to fork’ project.• Analyse stocks daily and make decisions based on use-by-dates.• Coordinate logistics of stocks between sister sites (between Ireland & UK).• Plan production for all Kepak sites daily (250+ Tonnes Meat).• Oversee Lean Management/Six Sigma programme.• Apply hard work ethic.• Analyse sales against forecasts and adjust production accordingly.• Negotiate prices/volumes with customers from many different nationalities.