James Perkins

***** **** ****** ***** **** Puyallup, WA 98375 253-***-**** acuwjs@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE

To obtain a full time position that will utilize my skills and

Experienced as well as open career advancement and learning opportunities.

CERTIFICATION

HACCP Certified

Certified Quality Systems Internal Auditor

AIB Food Safety/Hygiene Auditor Training - Certified Trainer

Neogen Corporation

GFSI Food Safety System

Certified GFSI Internal Auditing System

Certified Program Trainer

Achieve Global Mission Possible - Phase One

Certified Food Industry Sanitation

AIB International

ServSafe Certified

Certified SQF Practitioner

EXPERIENCE

ZEP Manufacturing December 2014 - Present

Food Safety Consultant

Conduct surveys and prepare written recommendation for customer consideration. Prepare monthly service and cost control reports to customers. Understand customer needs related to hygiene and sanitation practices. Develop sanitation procedures and sanitation training manuals. Train customer employees on sanitation programs, microbiology, and food safety related practices. Conduct plant food safety inspection and correction recommendation. Provide customer employees with safe use of chemical training. Perform monthly chemical inventory and provide usage reports. Update and provide customer with new and improved programs and chemical that will improve their food safety programs. Work with the sanitation crew during their cleaning time to evaluate their cleaning process and the effectiveness of the cleaning chemicals.

Sahalesnacks, Tukwilla Wa. June 2014 – September 2014

Shift Supervisor

Responsible for managing over 40 employees, which included production, warehouse, maintenance, sanitation and quality assurance. Responsible for daily production schedule. Responsible for employee safety, managed employees vacation, and schedule time off. Responsible for hiring or termination of employees if needed. Manage production change overs, which included cleaning of production equipment. Responsible for shift productivity paper work.

Gate Gourmet, Sea Tac November 2013 – April 2014

QA Manager

Provides for team member safety by promoting safe work practices, monitoring compliance with policies, and minimizing physical hazards to promote an overall safe work environment. Monitors Quality programs to ensure process control are met, document activities, and brings about corrective action if needed. Conducts food safety training, HACCP training, and annual GMP training. Supervise activities of Quality Assurance Auditors and Technicians. Monitors Quality Control Programs for incoming materials inspections for ingredients. Performed Food Safety Inspections, document audit results and provides input and recommendations for necessary corrective action as needed. Performed environmental test. Responsible for all third party inspections.

Seametrics, Kent Wa June 2012 – September 14

Operation Supervisor

Responsible for managing over 50 employees on manufacturing industrial water meters. Duties include test and calibration meters for accuracy and proper insulation. Responsible for shipping and receiving, making sure incoming materials are properly received, which include receiving inspections on incoming materials and equipment. Shipping duties include proper shipping to eliminate damaged to product during shipping, duties also product is shipped in a timely manner to insure on time delivery. Manage machine shop employees to insure parts are machine properly and in a timely manner without delays in production manufacturing. Duties include coaching and training, hiring new employees when needed, disciplinary action, employee evaluation, recommended employees for advancement, overseeing plant safety.

Mission Foods, Fife, WA

Food Safety Manager May 1999 - August 2010

Responsible for training development and performance management of sanitation techs. Responsible for training employees in the proper methodology of cleaning and sanitizing, which include the proper use and interaction of chemicals, dilution rates, chemical inventory, measurement and testing, SSOP, master cleaning schedule, and cleaning procedures. Responsible for purchasing equipment & supplies. Supported and trained plant personnel on proper safety procedures and regulation. Managed the interface with other functions to recommend and oversee updates of distribution operation procedures, standards manuals and operational tools that are related to distribution, food safety and product quality. Managed third party auditing service to validate supplier compliance, which included distribution supplier chain auditing. Validated Key Performance Indicators.

Plan and conducted all plant food safety and GMP inspections - to include scheduled and unscheduled inspections. Issue Corrective Action to department heads for any deficiencies observed during inspections.

Reports/follow-up to ensure completion. Provide direction to resolve deficiencies. Investigate and troubleshoot product concerns from retail stores and customers. Conducted hazard analysis of all food products to determine the critical control points and estabished critical limits.Established effective record keeping and documentation procedures with effective action plans for issues relating to HACCP. Conducted training at several other mission plants to uniform Sanitation / Food Safety Best Practice. Quarterly training with management team members regarding Food Safety and HACCP. Responsible for managing QA department, which included testing samples of product to ensure compliance with specification, product evaluation, and specs, ph monitoring, moisture checks, pre op inspection, line restart inspection, metal detection checks, performing equipment and tool calibration, measurement equipment, weight control monitoring, inspection of daily production line paper work to ensure quality checks were performed at company written policy & procedure. Performed warehouse inspection to ensure all policies and procedures were followed to regulation which included product receiving inspection, product rotation, cleanliness, cleaning schedule, and ensure all raw materials were properly stored and protected, which included allergen product were segregated from non- allergen product.

Worked with team members as the Food Safety Expert in selection and assessment of suppliers. Inspected all new machinery for sanitary design, and potential cleaning issues.

Responsible for weekend production which included production run rates, pounds per man hour, waste, schedulingemployees for production lines operation. Managed all inside and outside facilities improvements. Responsible for auditing all Documentation and Record keeping of polices and procedures for all external / internal inspections conducted by goverenment and non government Auditors. Plants 5’s program manager, lean manufacturing project coordinator.

Perfect Auto Detail June 2003 – September 2012 Owner / Manager

Hired and trained employees on cleaning and refurbishing interior/ exteriors of new and used automobiles. Prepared estimates for customers. Sold products and services. Researched competitors pricing. Used specialized cleaners and equipment for each area needed to clean all areas of automobiles, including engines. Repaired automobile damaged

Nalley’s Fine Food, Tacoma, WA

Sanitation Manager September 1998 - May 1999

Managed and coordinated activities of all personnel engaged in cleaning and sanitizing machinery and equipment. which included CIP systems.

Responsible for Sanitation management of 4 plants., including Peanut butter, Salad dressing, Pickle and the Cannery plant. Supervised more than 40 employees.

Responsible for training, development and performance management.

Ensured all plants met GMP standards, OSHA, FDA and USDA regulations.

Endured that all plants were cleaned, sanitized and ready for production on a regular timely basis.

Planned and organized all plant and food safety inspections. Wrote corrective actions for inspection findings. Worked with Plant Manager to resolve deficiencies.

Wrote cleaning procedures, work instructions

US Navy

Flight Deck Supervisor March 1986 – March 1990

EDUCATION High School or equivalent, General Studies, Jefferson High School Jefferson, TX

Attended Green River College: Waste Water Treatment Class

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