Food Safety Manager

STACIE CLARK

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Summary

Experienced and versatile manufacturing manager that has held roles of increasing responsibility in operations, quality and R&D. Extensive knowledge of cGMP, regulatory and ISO certification schemes. Exhibits strong leadership, relationship-building and organizational skills, with a commitment to building strong teams, bench strength to develop future leadership talent and food safety and regulatory programs.

Special Skill Sets

Strategic operations and financial planning management

Lean Manufacturing strategies and Kaizen development

Policy/program development, procedure writing and document control

Development of internal inspection and auditing strategies

Food Safety, QC and Quality Assurance knowledge

Principles of Sanitary and Hygienic design development

Development of simple root cause analysis, FMEA and continuous improvement tools

Preventative maintenance and Preventative controls development

Cross-functional team management

Specification development for compliance systems

Responsibilities and Accomplishments

Increasing Responsibilities from Supervisor to Department Manager 03/2003 to Current

PepsiCo Bridgeview, IL

-Trained, developed and counseled employees in the development of high performance work teams, as part of Total Productive Manufacturing (TPM) initiatives.

-Responsible for developing and maintaining employee health safety (HSE) and quality assurance (QA) strategies for the site thru focused improvement (FI) and early management (EM) practices.

-Coached direct reports for self-development and achievement of individual performance goals, with the end goal of promotion opportunities within and outside of the company.

-Developed and managed departmental budgets and capital projects, delivering flat to 5% reduction of annual operations plans (AOP).

-Decreased regulatory compliance audit findings by 20% thru collaboration with the engineering and maintenance teams, developing production equipment which improved capability for production and sanitation processes.

-Developed and implemented root cause and corrective actions to improve quality and reduce consumer complaints by 15% for over 4 years as department manager.

-Identified cost reduction projects thru loss analysis to reduce yield/cullage losses, improve productivity and increase quality and sanitation productivity.

-Directed daily activities for the site for unannounced regulatory and 3rd party audits thru planning, training and continuous improvement strategies.

-Site leadership resource for developing tactics and goals for annual operating plans and budgets to provide key deliverables to the broader corporate organization.

-Developed quality specifications, tactical action lists and budgetary requirements for new equipment installations and upgrades for the site.

-Developed food safety and regulatory SOPs and tactics for new and existing processes and equipment for the site.

Quality Assurance Manager 08/2000 to 02/2003

Consolidated Baking Company / Bakeline Group LLC Birmingham, AL

- Directed and supervised quality and sanitation employees as co-manufacturing site for several food

industry manufacturers.

-Designed and developed HACCP and Kosher certification program, policies, procedures and training as for site in compliance with regulatory and customer corporate guidelines.

-Developed and optimized food safety programs for the successful passing of regulatory and third party

inspections thru focused training and development of robust good manufacturing practices

Production Supervisor / Quality Engineering 09/1996 to 11/1999

Avery Dennison Corporation Meridian, MS

- Recruited as Production Supervisor with increasing responsibilities until transitioning into role of Quality

Engineer

- Supervised teams of 60-100 full and part time associates in daily manufacturing operations including

maintenance and quality functions

- Developed process control plans to streamline production work flow, coordinated Kaizen improvement

projects, defect sampling plans and cause and effect diagrams targeting specification development and

improvements

- Established and adjusted work procedures to meet production schedules. Defined manufacturing

performance standards and reviewed the performance outcomes to set future targets.

- Trained and developed employees for high performance work teams.

Quality Control Supervisor 08/1994 to 09/1996

Sara Lee Bakeries Forest, MS

- Implementation of SPC with training of frontline employees on basic concepts for quality improvements

- Developed strategies to decrease consumer complaints down 25% with focus on increasing desired

product attributes and decrease foreign material contamination

- Developed improvements in departmental documentation compliance, accuracy and traceability

- Developed standardization process for internal inspections, food safety procedures and training SSOPs

Education

Bachelor of Science: Biology 1990

Tougaloo College Jackson, MS

Training and Certifications

Preventive Controls for Human Food Qualified Individual (PCQI) 2017

Sanitary and Hygienic Design Principles - Grocery Manufacturers of America (GMA) 2015

Certified Food Defense Coordinator - American Institute of Baking (AIBI) 2011-2016

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