Jeff Pringle
Pyes Pa,Tauranga
Summary
People-oriented team leader successful in monitoring performance, delegating work and motivating members. Versed in managing daily direction and team communication. Collaborative and resourceful professional dedicated to identifying needs to develop and deliver creative solutions.
Overview
35
35
years of professional experience
Work History
Team Leader
Winstone Wallboards (GIB)
03.2024 - Current
- Lead a team to achieve company targets in quality, safety and productivity whilst always ensuring staff development.
- Carry out team briefings to ensure effective shift plans are communicated and adhered too.
- Promote safety at work and ensure all H & S processes are followed diligently. Report failures and incidents at the earliest opportunity.
- Ensure that all product is 100% inspected before product release.
- Training of staff is being implemented and structured on a regular basis to achieve company policy.
UHT Process Supervisor
Fonterra
05.2021 - 03.2024
- Manage the effect leadership of a team processing milk and cream for final packaging, whilst ensuring safe working practices, manufacturing high quality product and in a timely manner.
- Always Ensuring adherence to company policies and practices.
- Completion of product documentation and final sign off/SAP data entries.
- Coaching and mentoring a team of process operators to embed a effective training and development culture.
- Represent the team and department as a key stakeholder in all requirements within the given day/week.
- Communicating all aspects of the daily/weekly plan to ensure adherence and tracking.
- Attended Permit to Work Issuer/Receiver courses, achieving assessment.
- Attended and passed Chemical Handling course.
- One of four Supervisors to take on heavy workload of supervising four departments with up to 36 staff for eight months, whilst a restructure was implemented.
- Completing Fire Warden/Chief Fire Warden training.
- In the stages of developing my team to improve overall functionality to aim for high performance.
Production Manager
Frozen Fresh
05.2020 - 12.2020
- To manage the efficient execution of the business production processes whilst delivering short- and long-term business goals.
- Creating a weekly production plan for all department activities to achieve best practice efficient productivity and cost effect labour planning.
- Daily/weekly purchasing of all ingredients with the scope of receiving the best raw materials at competitive rates.
- Responsible for ensuring the Food Safety and Health and Safety Policy are maintained to a very high standard.
- Ensuring plant and equipment is maintained and repaired as required.
- Provide strong leadership across the entire business by upholding a strong and dynamic team culture and positive work ethics.
- Successful rapid transition of the business to a new bespoke site.
- Implementation of various new processes including X-RAY monitoring and process streamlining of various departments.
- Greater understanding of Food Safety.
Operations Manager
The Wine Portfolio
07.2018 - 01.2020
- Management of production, packaging, disgorging and warehouse operations whilst optimizing maximum efficiencies, implementing best practices and driving continuous improvements.
- Leadership and development of various production and warehouse teams whilst implementing change process to improve efficiencies.
- Build and continually develop a positive culture based on accountabilities and organizational values.
- Create and communicate a production schedule in line with both domestic and export sales.
- Manage the logistics of DIFOT, material supply inwards and outwards goods in conjunction with the client’s requirements and our own.
- Manage all departments’ costs within budget parameters.
- Oversight of supplier contracts and label artwork to ensure overall efficiencies and compliance.
- Health and Safety. Ensure industry standards are adhered to in accordance with company procedures.
- Manage projects to ensure delivery on time, on budget and with the features and functionality specified by the project stakeholders.
- Production volume increase by approx. 15% through the implementation of shifts.
- Worksafe audit compliance Jan 2019-March 2019.
- MPI accreditation.
- Numerous projects from scope to implementation including two NPD initiatives for two clients in NZ/UK.
Production Supervisor
Phytomed Medicinal Herbs
01.2017 - 06.2018
- To manage the day-to-day and weekly production activities, overseeing all manufacturing and packaging operations to ensure quality, compliance, costs, productivity and health and safety outcomes are achieved.
- To take full responsibility in terms of management of staff, management of production and quality targets to ensure the smooth running of production.
- Manufacturing of products in accordance with the company procedures and GMP.
- Production documentation reviews and sign off.
- Maintain housekeeping and GMP standards to ensure clean, quality, compliant and safe workplace.
- Organize workflow according to workload to meet delivery schedule.
- Conduct validation of new equipment and processes including IQ, OQ and PQ activities.
- Establish and implement productivity trend analysis.
- Contribute to a work environment that fosters pride in being part of a winning team and promoting personal growth to team and self.
- Develop, manage and maintain workflow systems to ensure all workflow tasks are linked effectively and accurately to ensure smooth on time production streams.
- Recruitment and training of key staff and casual employees to achieve increased productivity demands.
- Implemented and identified numerous safety initiatives.
- Developed key engineering service partnerships.
- Implemented machinery modifications to greatly improve packaging coding.
Blow Fill Production Team Leader
Coca Cola Amatil NZ
01.2013 - 01.2017
- Providing Leadership and development for a Blow Fill production team with the goal of creating a multiskilled and self-sufficient team.
- Ensure the production lines always achieve required Quality and Productivity standards, according to company SOP’s and achieving Best Practice.
- Key focus on ensuring Health & Safety within the workplace, reporting opportunities to eradicate risks and hazards.
- Achieving departmental targets for H & S, quality, productivity and material yields.
- Ensuring effective communication to staff, management team, key customers and suppliers.
- Continually drive Continuous Improvement initiatives, reduce CIP times, reject rates.
- Proactively ensure all materials are available to achieve the department production schedule.
- Complete all regulatory documentation for productions runs in a timely and effective manner.
- Carry out investigations for material losses, out of spec products, machine breakdowns or incidents detrimental to company policies.
- Ensure training of staff is continuous to enable a multi-skilled and self-directed team.
- Carry out regular one on one’s with team members to ensure engagement of team targets.
- Key part in numerous Operational Excellence focus groups, which have reduced material waste, cleaning in place (CIP) times.
- Created night shift performance reports and greatly improved the general communication from the night shift operations.
- Continuing development of skills and training plans.
- Constantly hitting and surpassing many of the departments KPI’s.
Packaging Manager
Treasury Wine Estates (Matua Valley Wines)
01.2011 - 01.2012
- Manage a production bottle line, inwards goods and export warehouse.
- Financial dimensions of $1.6M OPEX for a packaging bottling line, inwards goods and finished goods warehouse.
- Finished goods inventory on site ($60M per annum).
- Manage day-to-day running of the bottling and warehouse teams to ensure and achieve efficiency from a cost, quality and HSE perspective.
- To work with demand planning, winemaking and export to ensure the production schedule ensures consistency of stock and delivered on time and in full.
- Regular analysis and CI in all packaging and warehouse functions.
- Development of department KPI’s to work towards and achieve department performance targets.
- Liaise and coordinate all maintenance activities with the Maintenance Manager to establish robust preventative maintenance program for the packaging line and warehouses.
- Establish a succession plan for the packaging and warehouse teams.
- Develop culture of LEAN manufacturing and CI within the packaging and warehouse teams.
- Created a future proof blue print to achieve Internal and external audit.
- Created an afternoon/night shift team to achieve expansion of the business goals.
- Achieved FY12 volume targets, which was an increase of approx. 33% from FY11.
Production Team Leader
Pernod Ricard NZ
01.2004 - 01.2011
- Managing production teams during the bottling and packaging of sparkling wines, whilst achieving Quality, Efficiency, Safety and Waste targets.
- Training and development of two production teams and implement ongoing training plans to optimize performance and productivity.
- Implement Way of Working to change culture of team dynamics.
- Set and agree key performance targets to achieve Lean Manufacturing goals.
- Facilitating new project development initiatives and promote Change.
- Develop and Implement plans for 5 Star (SMED, 5’s, lean manufacturing).
- Design and implement SOP’S within the PRNZ policy.
- Business partnering with other departments and suppliers to achieve good communication channels to streamline processes and to promote team work.
- Successfully introduced a continuous production process to achieve the goal of raising Overall Equipment Effectiveness and dramatically improving the culture as a result.
- The change in culture then spread to the entire production plant.
- Awarded with the National Employee award as a result of the above.
Manufacturing Shift Leader
Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd (Sterile Pharma Manufacturing)
01.1990 - 01.2007
- Supervise, training and development of a team in the operation of a new sterile manufacturing department.
- Supervision and the training and development of team members.
- Identifying and resolving possible bottlenecks to prevent delays within the manufacturing schedule.
- General administration tasks in manager’s absence.
- Responsible for Pall filtration stock, testing and storage.
- To manufacture solutions according to company procedures and GMP.
- To maintain high levels of housekeeping and GMP within the area of work.
- Training and development of a team to achieve level 2 training status.
- Designed and implemented a new training programme.
- Successfully administered the department’s filtration stock which included testing, drying, storage and documentation of both product and gas filters.
Production Team Leader
Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd (Sterile Pharma Manufacturing)
01.2003 - 12.2003
- Reporting to the Production Manager, responsible for providing complete support and assistance to the production and packaging teams and Production Manager.
- Deputizing for the Production Manager in many aspects within the defined role and relevant responsibilities.
- Provide total support to the Manufacturing and Packaging teams to deliver the agreed production and training schedules.
- Setting and agreeing sequential production schedules to optimize productivity efficiencies and to prevent downtime.
- Represent production departments within the Change Control Group, driving and supporting Continuous Improvements projects to achieve completion.
- Administration of Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) against agreed departmental performance targets.
- Administration of Production audit reports/actions, tracking required/outstanding actions.
- Evaluation, assessment and Induction of new staff.
- Successful induction of three new Team Leaders.
- Successfully integrated huge volume of data into a new performance KPI database.
- Achieving the role of Production Team Leader out of a pool of four other Team Leaders.
Manufacturing Team Leader
Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd (Sterile Pharma Manufacturing)
06.1997 - 01.2003
- Managing a manufacturing team of up to 25 staff, which included Production Assistants and Engineers, to achieve departmental targets for quality, safety, productivity and maintain superior levels of GMP.
- Management of the daily manufacturing activities to achieve departmental targets for output, safety and quality.
- Setting and agreeing sequential schedules to optimize productivity and to prevent downtime and waste.
- Promote and drive Continuous Improvements to reduce process times, costs or materials.
- Administration of Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) against agreed departmental performance targets.
- Identify training needs and refresher training by implementing continuous Training plans.
- Planning and coordinating the implementation of changes to working practices/processes.
- Project work includes the installation and setting up of Key Performance Indicators within Manufacturing.
- Designed a strategy for implementing continuous learning and development for the entire team.
- Led by example and created a very professional and highly successful team.
- Trained and developed two of my staff who became Team Leaders within the same department.
- Achieving promotion to the role.
Education
High School Certificates - Physics, Chemistry, Math’s, English, Technical Engineering Design and Art
01.1984
Skills
- Team Leadership
- Staff Development
- Manufacturing
- Continuous Improvement Champion
- Lean Manufacturing
- Quality assurance
- Safety
- Coaching and mentoring
Hobbies and Interests
- Family – Shapes who I am
- Cooking – I am a trained chef and love creating good food.
- Reading – Love reading or listening to audiobooks
- Mountain Biking – Out on the tracks with my son.
- DIY – Home and garden improvements.
- Current affairs – US politics.
- Lean Manufacturing
References
- Steve Cruickshank, Production Manager, GIB, 027 291 3665
- Dean Edwards, Process Manager, Fonterra, 027 271 6408
- Mike Nixon, General Manager, Frozen Fresh, 021 894902
- Paul Dawick, Senior Winemaker/Operations Lead, The Wine Portfolio, 021 2996522
- Clinton Rule, Operations Manager, Phytomed, 021 933229
- Rizaldy Bato, Group Leader, Coca Cola Ltd, 021 351000
Accomplishments
- I was nominated and awarded the National Quarterly Staff Recognition Programme for improving product efficiency by 21%.In 2007.
Timeline
Team Leader
Winstone Wallboards (GIB)
03.2024 - Current
UHT Process Supervisor
Fonterra
05.2021 - 03.2024
Production Manager
Frozen Fresh
05.2020 - 12.2020
Operations Manager
The Wine Portfolio
07.2018 - 01.2020
Production Supervisor
Phytomed Medicinal Herbs
01.2017 - 06.2018
Blow Fill Production Team Leader
Coca Cola Amatil NZ
01.2013 - 01.2017
Packaging Manager
Treasury Wine Estates (Matua Valley Wines)
01.2011 - 01.2012
Production Team Leader
Pernod Ricard NZ
01.2004 - 01.2011
Production Team Leader
Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd (Sterile Pharma Manufacturing)
01.2003 - 12.2003
Manufacturing Team Leader
Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd (Sterile Pharma Manufacturing)
06.1997 - 01.2003
Manufacturing Shift Leader
Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd (Sterile Pharma Manufacturing)
01.1990 - 01.2007
High School Certificates - Physics, Chemistry, Math’s, English, Technical Engineering Design and Art
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