Kelly Anderson

• Responsible for laboratory, site quality team, technical and approved supplier quality programme, covering a number of filling lines on site, meeting state and export regulations, BRCGS certification and co-manufacturer management.
• The focus is to establish robust systems on site, while developing the food safety and quality culture.
• Use of data and risk analysis, when working with production and logistics to develop skills and knowledge to empower departments to understand their process and take ownership of quality.
• Product improvement and cost reductions projects, by localising ingredients, and ingredient changes to ensure supply to market continues and regulatory standards maintained
• Supporting product improvement through strategy development and presenting to the business
• Compliance requirements for export markets including government portals to ensure business / product registration

• This position was responsible for quality at 9 Lactalis milk sites across Australia
• Established standardised reporting across sites
• Implementation of a standardised NCR reporting system of all sites.
• Establishment of NCR database across sites.
• Crises management, managing recalls and withdraws with regulators and customers.
• Site support in root cause analysis, investigations, regulatory audits.
• Process Improvements and standardisation across sites.

• Recruited into the corporate quality team, with a secondment to Longwarry Site to support during a period of increased regulatory oversight
• Site manufactured milk powder, cream cheese, fresh shake and sundae and UHT products
• Quality Account management with McDonald's and Burger King to establish confidence response to quality issues
• Technical support in Food Safety and Quality systems - SQF, Regulatory and Lactalis Global Standards, while also responsible for Environment and Health & Safety compliance
• Day to day management of site Quality team.

• The site manufactured high risk products – fresh filled and plain pasta, pasta sauce and chilled ready meals
• The QRO team is responsible for Quality systems, Quality assurance, manufacture support, sanitation and laboratory activities, comprising of a total of 18 team members

Responsibilities include:

• Reviewing and establishing a sustainable food safety programme while leading a young QRO team to develop knowledge and influence food safety on site
• Monthly food safety training
• Internal audit programme reviewed and identifying major GMI systems gaps and closure
• Establish food safety team including operators and support staff and the development of HACCP, Internal Auditing and incident investigation review sub teams
• Monthly Food Safety KPI reporting and Quarterly reporting to Europe and USA Food Safety Teams
• Crises management, including withdrawal and recall activities
• Maintain regulatory, customer and international standards eg. Woolworth's, Aldi, SQF, AIB

Synlait Milk Ltd is a dairy processing site which manufactures commodity; value added and nutritional milk powders, an AMF plant and a blending and canning facility for infant products

Key responsibilities included -

• Design and development of an on-site laboratory to complete all microbiological, chemical, physical and sensory testing
• Coaching and development of team members
• Review and development of site policy and procedures to meet NZ and exporter standards e.g
• China, Eastern European
• Customer audits from global leaders in infant powder manufacture
• Complaint management as supplier of ingredients and retail infant products
• Registered as the Synlait Operator for Sea Containers and Biological samples
• Support production with product quality and microbial monitoring
• Synlait Milk Ltd is a dairy processing site which manufactures commodity; value added and nutritional milk powders, an AMF plant and a blending and canning facility for infant products
• Key Achievements
• Drier investigation with Cronobacter sakazakii contamination
• Infant product approval from China Regulatory bodies
• NZFSA registration of Infant Canning Plant, Drier 3, Lactoferrin Plant
• Building a team from 7 members to 32 in 2 years, following the rapid expansion of manufacturing plants and the laboratory build

Key Responsibilities included:

• Working with 4 sites within Victoria, New South Wales, New Zealand which manufactured UHT, ESL dairy products, Yoghurt, Dairy Desserts, Sour Cream, Soy Milk
• Quality account management with McDonald's and Burger King customers
• Policy setting, technical support and continuous improvement
• Establishment of Manufacturing Standards and Policy's
• Managed and delivered training to sites in Commissioning & Validation of new products and processes.
• Capital Project risk mitigation – new UHT plant
• Food Safety and Quality trouble shooting