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Appraisal skills
(Nestlé)
1994
NIMA A in Marketing
(Dutch Marketing Society)
A
CQUIRED SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES
Leadership
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Recruitment of team members.
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Monitoring performance and addressing issues.
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Through objectives (projects, courses, factory/ research secondments) coach and
develop people so that they reach their full potential.
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Ensuring that the lab operated within budget.
Managing workload
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The lab provided a high level of service to the business.
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Turn around time were 99% despite a 30% increase in samples from 2004 to 2008.
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Good balance between testing samples and developing people.
Quality systems
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Maintained UKAS and DEFRA accreditation.
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Extension of scope for new methods.
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Ensured compliance to Nestlé quality standard (only high performing microbiology
lab in Nestlé).
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Audit external laboratories in UK, Ireland, Belgium and Holland.
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Audit Nestlé Quality Assurance Centres in North America and Thailand.
Food safety:
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Familiar with key Nestlé documents (e.g. manufacturing instructions) regarding food
safety.
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Knowledge of food safety management systems, ISO 22000 and HACCP (courses).
Methods:
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Setting a strategy for the establishing and revising laboratory instructions for Nestlé
Quality Assurance Centres.
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Writing laboratory standards that are used by Nestlé Quality Assurance Centres
worldwide.
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Ensuring that methods are verified at local level before implementation.
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Ongoing method verification in the form of IQA.
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Implementation of a way to determine the measurement of uncertainty for
enumeration methods.
Networking:
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Attend ISO working group on standards such as sample preparation (ISO 6887
series), detection of Salmonella (ISO 6579) and media quality assurance (ISO
11133).
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Attend general committee meetings from MicroVal.
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Attended the UKAMA meetings.
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Part of the Campden QA/QC working party.
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From 2006-2010 Organised Northern Regional Association of Microbiologist, a group
of 30 people that meet every 4 months to discuss microbiology and accreditation
topics.
Health and Safety
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Implementation of a health and safety team.
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Designed COSHH and general risk assessments forms.
General microbial techniques:
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Routine enumeration (spot-, spread-, pour-, and automatic plating).
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Identification techniques.
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Fermentation technology (small/medium scale, batch/continues systems).
Protein related techniques:
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General protein isolation, quantification, purification techniques.
DNA related techniques:
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General DNA isolation, quantification, purification techniques.
RNA transcription related techniques:
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General RNA isolation, quantification, purification techniques.
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Competent in setting up hybridisation using DNA – ORF based micro arrays.
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Real-Time PCR.
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