Jeffery W. Pontier
**** **** *** ******* ***** Wa.
25+ YEARS IN THE FOOD AND DAIRY PROCESSING INDUSTRY
•ADVANCED HACCP CERTIFIED
•SEAFOOD HACCP CERTIFIED
•FOOD DEFENSE COORDINATOR
•SQF PRACTITIONER CERTIFIED
•RECALL COORDINATOR
•OSHA REGULATIONS
•CPR CERTIFIED
•HAZMAT
•2018 – Franz Bakery Sanitation Supervisor. 2 crews, 35 employees.
•2017 - 2014 - Rocha Family Farms Construction.
•2014 – 2012 Homecare with Hospice's help, ill relative.
Spokane Produce Inc. 2003-2012
PRODUCTION MANAGER/PLANT SANITARIAN
•Supervision of 60-75 employee workforce (depending on season)
•Employee training in sanitation, SOP’s, GMP’s, cGMPs, SSOP’s, HACCP, Food security
•Monitoring labs results, sanitation, maintenance, food safety and food security programs
•Getting routes out on time, hiring, terminations, disciplinary actions
•Daily audits of the processing and kitchen departments and monthly plant audit
•Constant contact with sales, warehouse and dispatch
•Scheduling 2 weeks in advance to cover vacations, doctor appointments etc.
•Making sure employee food handler permits were up to date
HACCP COORDINATOR
•Hazard analysis, critical control points and flow charts
•Annual update on HACCP program
•Annual update on Allergen control program
•Escort auditors – FDA, USDA, WSDA, DOD, Silliker, AIB, OSHA, Health Dept.
•Wrote up a monthly facility audit and based it on a 5 point system
FOOD DEFENSE COORDINATOR
•Facility and employee defense procedures and policies are implemented and followed
•Annual evacuation exercise and reassessment of facility security
•Implemented food defense program 1 year before the FDA or the DOD required it.
RECALL COORDINATOR
•Assemble recall team, give instructions, hand out recall paperwork
•Set up time for next meeting with expected updates from sales, dispatch and trucking
•Inform sales of what to say and what not to say
•Set up holding area for on hold and recalled product
•Photo documentation of on hold and recalled product
•If product is disposed of get weights, cases, containers etc.
•Complete recall paperwork when all product has been recovered or all product has been accounted for. Meet with CEO and recall team members
EMPLOYEE/FOOD SAFETY COORDINATOR
•Employee training in HACCP, GMP’s, SSOP’s, SOP’s and equipment safety
•Daily on the job safety training and monthly L & I and Food Protection Videos
•Training on spatial separation of allergen and standard products
QUALITY ASSURANCE – BACK UP
•Testing on product, food contact and non-food contact surfaces
•Swab plating for e-coli, coliforms, Aerobic counts, yeast and mold, Salmonella, Listeria and environmental
•ATP testing on food contact and non-food contact surfaces before production begins and at mid-shift clean up and after end of the shift clean up.
•Allergen swab testing
•Weekly Listeria testing on drains throughout the facility on a rotating basis
OPERATIONS MANAGER – BACK UP
•Anything related to the operations of the facility, cooling, heating, lighting, plumbing, machinery, sump pumps, forklifts/pallet jacks, elevator repair, pest control, hazmat and fire/police responders
•Ordering parts and equipment, getting the proper personnel out to address problems
Wilcox Farms Inc. 1996-2003
Production Supervisor/Sanitation Supervisor
Crew of 27, Pasteurizer, batcher, CIP, milk intake, cream loadout, QA, auditor, filler operator, waste water monitor (correct Ph before sending discharge to city of Cheney)
Training
Cheese Short Course
Cal-Poly San Luis Obispo, CA
Certificate 1992
Milk Short Course
Cal-Poly San Luis Obispo, CA
Certificate 1995
Haccp Workshop
San Diego, CA
Certificate 2004
Advanced Haccp Workshop
Kansas City, Missouri
Certificate 2007
Food Defense Coordinator Workshop
Renton, WA & San Diego CA
Certificate 2008 & 2011
Seafood Haccp Workshop
Long Beach, CA
Certificate 2008
Silliker SQF Audit Program Seminar
Chicago, IL
Certificate 2009
Silliker SQF Audit test
Spokane, WA
Certificate 2009
Seminars
“How to be a Better Leader”
Spokane, WA
1999
“Management Skills”
Coeur d’ Alene, ID
2004
“Sexual Harassment in the Workplace”
Spokane, WA
2007
“Ultimate Goals in the Workplace”
Post Falls, ID
2008
Team Member - *Employee Safety Committee *Food Defense Committee *Recall Committee *Haccp Committee *Chemical Hazard Committee *Food Safety Committee.