David Daniels

- Providing leadership for lead hands, operators and general help staff. - Motivating employees to continually improve performance and results and achieves daily productivity targets. - Collects CI ideas to develop and carry out action plans to address ideas for improvement. - Monitors product quality to ensure established standards are sustained. - Proactively identifies safety, maintenance and quality issues. - Supervises and evaluates staff performance. - Comply and enforce SQF policy and procedures.

- Supervisor in highly automated non-union workforce producing high quality feed for the aquaculture industry - Implementation of 5S and Lean principles throughout the production and packaging departments • Driving change of the safety culture by encouraging a positive attitude by weekly and monthly meetings and daily observations of employees - Modify line employees’ regular duties and delegate cleaning duties, reworks, or other responsibilities as assigned when line problems arise, and regular scheduled production is on hold.

- Implementation of HACCP and Safety programs to improve food and worker safety - Provides ongoing training, direction and coaching to warehouse staff to ensure all accessorial activities are logged and captured for the purposes of operational visibility and accurate customer billing - Leads daily warehouse operations by prioritizing activities, and providing leadership, coaching and direction to the warehouse team. Aligns department and individual efforts to the vision, mission, strategy and culture

- Achieved BRAVO award for plant excellence for outstanding performance in operational and efficiency in Lines 1-2 - Improved performance of unionized work force through implementation of standards - Managing operations employees whilst ensuring that they work in a safe manner - Overseeing production, including flow and daily planning, and ensuring that production targets are being met - Driving change and promoting value added growth by focusing on the client and quality - Ensuring that Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) rules are enforced and followed

- Implemented PMC program to control processes effectively and efficiently; aim was to reduce waste and improve efficiency - Reduced excessive downtime through hands on troubleshooting and analysis of complex changeovers - Investigated and made recommendations based on comprehensive 5 WHY analysis; utilized Six Sigma analytical tools used to solve complex production issues - Administrative duties included data entry into in-house database program, staffing functions including staffing extra shifts, development of new hires - Monitored and created development plans for new hires and continually assessed progress - Member of the HACCP/BRC implementation team

- Achieved the best plant award in 2007 by increasing reliability and reducing costs throughout the plant through WCM projects - Increased score of plant safety audit to highest level for all North American plants - Assessed risk throughout the plant and reduced risk through proper work procedures and countermeasures - Improved plant participation in safety program through active safety committee and benefits of proven standard operating procedures and communication - Increased training and development of key plant positions by implementation of formal training program

- Developed and implemented the initial safety SOP’s for lockout and tagout procedures - Increased efficiency of offline production of display and assorted package displays which included training, SOP’s, inventory tracking and forecasting of resources