Trupesh Manji

Organised team leader with excellent leadership quality to lead and mentor team members to achieve organisational goals in busy and fast production environment. Experienced in team leading for 5+ years in Ice cream food industry and always thrive to builds positive working environment, inspires and guides teams. Outstanding machinery knowledge and functioning to operative in highest standard and ensuring PPM done by engineering team to maintained machinery.

Excellent attention to details and have 360-degree vision on the floor to supervise production floor and committed to raised Health & Safety and Food Safety concerns with relevant department for continues improvement. Enthusiastic to empower and encourage teams for any organisational change and adaptation. Participants in achieving Salsa and BRC accreditation to ensure standards are met.

Managing operation in absence of shift manager, maintain KPI and review with team members and ensure shift report is done and email to senior management.

Production Team Leader - Little Moons Mochi Makers

(2021-02 - 2026-05)

Central to production operations, ensuring products are manufactured to the highest standards while adhering to company policies, food safety regulations, and operational procedures. Worked across multiple production areas including packing (high care & low care), ice‑cream production, and product/Mochi forming KN area.

• Manage the manufacturing process with technical and safety guidelines, always ensuring good standards of manufacturing.
• Relevant supervisory skills and experience to meet daily target, ideally running a production area environment with 360-degree vision on the floor.
• Possess strong interpersonal skills and leadership qualities to lead and mentor the team.
• Organised self-starter, planning and prioritising as necessary run the production.
• A "can do" attitude with high levels of tenacity and determination to fix problems.
• Be an influencer/mentor with the energy, vision and ability to inspire team.
• Involved in waste reduction project to delivered food waste reduction by 40%.
• Have a broad manufacturing/production background to ensure CCPs have been done regularly and timely manner.
• CCP – Sanitising tunnel passing ingredients from low care to high care.
• CCP – Cooking and Steaming.
• CCP – Cooling Ice-cream base.
• CCP - Metal detection (Ferrous (1.5MM), non-ferrous (1.5MM) and stainless steel (2.0MM)
• Be able to communicate ideas and instructions in detail to others in a clear and understandable manner.
• A belief in a hands-on approach to drive broad issue resolution.
• High attention to details to ensure any issue raise before can be tackled and prevented.
• Communication with staff clearly and providing understandable instruction for the tasks.
• Ensure all staff understand their task and fulfil their duty under company policy.
• Assisting team members when they require help and guidance.
• Taking handover from shift changeover to plan of production and tackle issues raised in.
• Conduct group meetings on the shop floor regarding any issues and improvements.
• Training new staff and helping them with guidance if required.
• Provide machinery training to make sure staff understand how to operate machineries under health and safety process. Encourage team members to work safely to always make a safe working environment.
• Always making sure food safety and food hygiene follows on the production floor by monitoring and supervising work activity.
• Have an open mindset and be productive to resolve issues raised on production floor and report shift manager.
• At the end of the shift fill out a shift report and email it to senior management.

Certificate of Employability Skill and Marketing Making Progress - ESOL with Business entry level 3 - Harrow college (2015-09 - 2016)

IOSH Managing Safely (2023-02-24)

Techni-K Award in Food Safety Level 2 (2023-10-03)

Highfield Award Level 3 in Food Safety (2020-05-24)

Highfield Award Level 3 in Effective Auditing and Inspection Skills Course (2020-10-06)

HR Course for Non-HR manager

Allergen Training - Food Standard Agency

Root Cause Analysis Training - Food Standard Agency

IHasco – Slips – Trips – Falls (2023-02-17)

Whistleblowing (2023-10-17)