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Robert D. Harrington

Experience

ConAgra Foods Fort Worth, Texas 2008 – Present (Plant Closing in February 2010)

Plant Sanitarian / Food Safety Manager

• Responsible for the Master Cleaning Schedule (MCS) Sanitation and Food Safety level of the facility. Conducted the monthly in-house inspections and GMP inspections with follow-up to insure all observations were corrected in a timely manner with little or no carryovers.

• Helped write cleaning procedures and chemical cleaning validation procedures for all processing equipment.

• Responsible to inspect all equipment after our daily chemical cleaning activities were accomplished to insure equipment was ready for scheduled on time production activities.

• Responsible for ordering all cleaning chemicals while maintaining budget guidelines.

• Responsible to insure all cleaning activities were effective in the time guidelines to insure little or no over time was accrued.

• Assist in preparation for all corporate, third party and regulatory inspections that are scheduled throughout the year. Helped with the preparation of our first SQF audit (Level 2) we achieved a 100% rating on the desk audit and 100% rating on the plant physical audit with only 2 minor issues noted.

Experience Precise Food Ingredients 2006 -2008 Production Manager

• Responsible for Plant Operations, Manufacturing Department and Quality Assurance.

• Reduced Labor Costs by an average of 12% the first four months in 2007 compared to 2006 while the production pounds were increased by over 9% in the first four months in 2007.

• Assisted in raising the food safety awareness in our facility to help achieve a Superior rating from AIB International in December 2006.

• Developed spreadsheets to track the actual out-put of production speeds and this increased some of the production out-put from 48% to over 92%.

Experience Cain Food Industries 2004 -2006 Production Manager

• Responsible for Plant Operations, Manufacturing Department, Quality Control Department, Test Bakery, Technical questions as posed to us by our customers as well as Plant Food Safety program.

• Assisted our facility in raising the food safety awareness to achieve a Superior rating from AIB International.

• Helped to increase the productivity of the Bulk Powder Products by over one million pounds and the productivity of the oxidizing and enzyme tablets by over Ten million tablets in 2005 compared to several previous fiscal years.

• This was accomplished by re-evaluating production processes and educating the line employees in a positive manner on how to be more productive

• The result of these process changes resulted in production increases with no over time hours.

Experience AIB International (AIB) Food Safety Auditor 1996 -2004

• Conducted food and Product safety audits of client FDA and USDA facilities.

• Provided technical training to management and employees at client's facility regarding the adequacy of food / product safety program, pest control, operational methods and personnel practices, and maintenance for food / product safety and cleaning practices.

• Communicated verbally to management on the level of food safety existing at the facility.

• Prepared a written report for management, recapping all issues of observations and, if needed, corrective actions that should be taken.

Experience

Experience

Training

Oroweat Baking Company 1992-1996 Production Superintendent

• Responsible for quality control of the product, operations of the production department which included production work schedules, as well as training employees on job functions.

• Assisted the engineering department in adjusting the heat transfer in the muffin griddle to achieve a superior finished product that resulted in a 7 % reduction in product loss the in a two year period

• Identified major malfunctions on the roll line that was conveyed to the corporate office for capitol funds to replace this piece of equipment. This new equipment resulted in the elimination of two un-necessary jobs and increased the production out put by 35% thus paying for the new equipment in three years.

Mrs Bairds Bakery 1971-1992

Production Manager / Quality Assurance Manager

• Responsible for our plant operations, 165 employees and the Profit and Loss. Increased productivity by re-evaluating processes, which in turn reduced, wasted or damaged product from 3.78% to .75% annually.

• Responsible for Product Consistency, Product Formulations and Plant Sanitation. Assisted Mr. Scott Baird in Quality Control by helping him score the products produced in all of our plants as samples were sent to us on a twice per week basis for this process.

• Assigned to assist the plant engineer with direct responsibility to improve the Preventative Maintenance (PM) Program. Helped decrease the annual downtime by 147 % in a two-year period by re-evaluating the Preventative Maintenance (PM) Program. This was accomplished by doing time studies on failed equipment and follow-up on how Preventative Maintenance work was being accomplished.

• Production Foreman responsible for a production shift that included supervising production schedules, quality control, Production orders, and production employees.

• Production Worker learned to operate all equipment and processes in the production department. These duties included Mixing Dough, Pan-o-Mat Operator, Divider Operator, Oven Operator, Bagger and Slicer Operator.

• AIB Science of Baking 1.5 year course, Dale Carnegie Course 16 week course, Food Processing Sanitation 1.5 year course, Maintenance Engineering 2 year course, Food Processing Sanitation and Hygiene, Food Plant Pest Control, Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) and Allergen Control’s

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