Through Rentokil's acquisition of Cannon Pest Control

Automotive Logistics

Part of Winterbotham Darby, the site produces Deli based solutions to Waitrose, Sainsbury's and The Co-operative group

With 2 main sites in England, this Irish based co-op manufactures dairy based ingredient solutions. The newly developed Crewe site transfers block cheese into 3 main variants of shred, slice & dice.• Reduction of site waste by 30% (£200,000) by increasing awareness through waste workshops, isolation and segregation of waste streams and daily reporting of waste % per shift & per line• Site restructure to bring 4 shifts patterns across site into alignment• Introduction of weekly planning meeting to ensure stability of production plan• Scoping of a weekly capacity maximisation meeting to increase OEE (availability & throughput), reduce cost per tonne & rationalise SKU’s.

A global leader in the manufacture of condiments - supplying McDonald’s, KFC, Pizza Hut and M&S; working in conjunction with Nando’s and owning the ‘Schwartz’ brand. Appointed to develop, standardise and progress the New Mill Street site following the closure of the Paisley factory and transfer of 5 production lines. Accountable for 75ops & 4 Team Leaders over a 3-shift working pattern, 6 process kits and 11 production lines.Achievements:Increased output on vertical form pouch filling machine (Sandicare). 50% OEE improvement, eliminating outsourcing (£5000/week), increased line capacity by 48hours/week.Re-structure of site communications. Developing and training of Team Leaders & Operators in shift to shift handovers and production meetings.Performance management and development of Team Leaders and Operators using lean manufacturing (5S, value stream mapping, 8 wastes, CAT's, incident reports & route cause analysis)

The Jacob’s Bakery has been one of the leading UK biscuit manufacturers since it was founded in 1885. United Biscuits have over 20 manufacturing sites throughout Europe and are the #1 market leader in UK-biscuits.Appointed to continue the site culture-change and development of the factory systems and personnel over 3 production lines.Achievements:Increased performance of 'Cheddars' line 2B by 8% reduction in waste (approx £2000/week).Introduction of H&S meetings and schedues to develop the site H&S reps and operators.Introduction of line performance systems (control sheets and hourly SIC) to measure base data and non-production time. The system will develop line operators and engineers to gain onwership of process

A division of Rank Hovis McDougal – one of the largest food producers in the UK.The role extensively is to continuously improve the production process with 50 shift operators to achieve attainment, OPE (Performance), quality and to work towards a ‘self managed’ team. Completion of data based (Pareto) monthly objectives for Engineering & Production, team briefings, cell ops meetings and production meetings. Other responsibilities include driving down line waste, improving batch/yield attainment and setting corrective actions to reduce downtime and to further develop operators.Achievements:6-month project on machine changeovers to improve efficiency. Results showed financial benefits of cost of sale profit of £177,000/year and increased line capacity of 64 production days per year.Commissioning and continued development of a Greenfield production facility.Increased throughput of production line (running 8 sized SKU's - 72 changeovers per year) by 30% in 12months by introducing service agreements, developing work patterns & setting preventitive maintenance schedules.

Responsible for the daily running of a high volume production department consisting of three filling lines (running @ 400 jpm) run by 60 operatives and 4 shift supervisors.Achievements:Increased throughput and quality rate of a 1.6T vacuum processing plant by challenging & developing process and plant specification. In approx. 6 months the plants throughput increased by 20% (equating to 1T /hour).