Andrew Langat

A pragmatic and focused post-harvest professional with a track record of streamlining and standardizing processes, drafting and designing procedures, monitoring and even ensuring products are delivered with the highest quality in the most cost-effective way to the company and that exceeds customer expectation. Familiar with flower company standards like MPS, BOPP, FAIRTRADE, ETI, GLOBALGAP and KFC. Able to lead teams on business processes where the highest standards are routinely demanded.

Always seeking to be actively involved in all aspects of the product life cycle to deliver high-value products in matrix organizations and across different geographies. Takes directions well and works hard to manage customer expectations. Willing to travel and currently seeking a suitable position with a dynamic company.

INTAKE MANAGER - AAA GROWERS LTD - Kenya

(2019-01 - 2024-12)

• Was Contact person for all correspondence from the intake area to the head office and other factory sites.
• Could Get involved in daily production planning, factoring in daily raw material predictions, opening stocks and projections.
• Successfully Maintained a high level of hygiene within and around the intake area due to potential contamination at the intake areas.
• Successfully Planned staff working in the intake area and making sure the intake team have access to necessary procedures, records and documents including raw material specifications.
• Attended and contributed to meetings with all staff as scheduled at appropriate intervals to communicate new specifications, changes to specifications and use of equipment to ensure high levels understanding in this critical area.
• Liased with the farm production managers and the pack house manager to ensure correct volumes of quality product entering the pack house for processing, packing and inter-farm transfer.
• Maintained raw material traceability all through by ensuring proper tagging for every batch.
• Maintained FIFO system for all materials release from the cold room to production or dispatch as guided by stock rotation procedures.
• Successfully Managed all equipment and tools within the intake area to ensure optimal performance through scheduled maintenance, training of operators, verification checks and safe storage when not in use.
• Assisted in measuring the performance of the staff within this area based on appraisals and giving this information through departmental heads for review.
• Successfully Participated in New Product Development, looking at new concepts that can be developed with the current market changes.
• Evaluated problems and made initial recommendations of possible corrective actions regarding all technical aspects.
• Successfully Planned on daily orders to enhance good time delivery.
• General labour management in pack house was the key role especially when the manager could be away i.e. Over 108 employees.
• Always worked on Packhouse daily product reconciliation successfully.
• In charge of product quality assessment and handling of customer complaints across the department.
• Was the Prime online trainer of staff to ensure a comprehensive understanding of co.standards, client specifications, job requirements and use of equipment within the pack house department.
• Successfully liased with field production manager to have the correct production figures posted for sales planning.
• Worked closely with the technical team in ensuring the product received goes hand in hand with the clients' specifications.
• Planned preventative maintenance of equipments and control of foreign body risks.
• Succefully evaluated problems and made initial recommendations of possible corrective actions on all technical aspects.
• Hand to hand communication with clients on the quantity/quality with specifications of their demand.
• Health and safety lead.
• Successfully conducted Pack house Staff trainings as per the company's manual and kept records for audit purposes.
• Ensured that the daily production reconciliation tallies with the day's processing.
• Could sent across the stocks reports for planning on daily basis.
• Successfully placed in measures on the systems of stock rotation .i.e. FIFO system.
• Ensured that the wip holding is properly arranged basing on the trolley-varieties.
• Ensured that the cold room floor is ever clean and dry.
• Ensured that the stocks recorder is capturing the accurate figures in the formats.
• Ensured that the stocks assistant supervisor enhances proper documentation.
• Trained all the WIP holding personnel on handling flowers in the cold room.
• Ensured that daily forging is done to avoid botrytis infection in both the wip holding and intake holding.
• Making sure that all production data is entered correctly in the system.
• Planned the amount of cuttings to be picked from the field for own use.

QUALITY ASSURANCE - PANOCAL INTERNATIONAL LTD - Kenya

(2016-01 - 2019-12)

• Successfully Participated in New Product Development, looking at new concepts that can be developed with the current market changes.
• Evaluated problems and made initial recommendations of possible corrective actions regarding all technical aspects.
• Successfully Planned on daily orders to enhance good time delivery.
• General labour management in pack house was the key role especially when the manager could be away i.e. Over 108 employees.
• Always worked on Packhouse daily product reconciliation successfully.
• In charge of product quality assessment and handling of customer complaints across the department.
• Was the Prime online trainer of staff to ensure a comprehensive understanding of co.standards, client specifications, job requirements and use of equipment within the pack house department.
• Successfully liased with field production manager to have the correct production figures posted for sales planning.
• Worked closely with the technical team in ensuring the product received goes hand in hand with the clients' specifications.
• Planned preventative maintenance of equipments and control of foreign body risks.
• Sucefully evaluated problems and made initial recommendations of possible corrective actions on all technical aspects.
• Hand to hand communication with clients on the quantity/quality with specifications of their demand.
• Health and safety lead.
• Successfully conducted Pack house Staff trainings as per the company's manual and kept records for audit purposes.

PACKHOUSE SENIOR SUPERVISOR - AAA GROWERS LTD - Kenya

(2013-01 - 2016-12)

• Ensured that the daily production reconciliation tallies with the day's processing.
• Could sent across the stocks reports for planning on daily basis.
• Successfully placed in measures on the systems of stock rotation .i.e. FIFO system.
• Ensured that the wip holding is properly arranged basing on the trolley-varieties.
• Ensured that the cold room floor is ever clean and dry.
• Ensured that the stocks recorder is capturing the accurate figures in the formats.
• Ensured that the stocks assistant supervisor enhances proper documentation.
• Trained all the WIP holding personnel on handling flowers in the cold room.
• Ensured that daily forging is done to avoid botrytis infection in both the wip holding and intake holding.
• Making sure that all production data is entered correctly in the system.
• Planned the amount of cuttings to be picked from the field for own use.
• Coordinated with the intake supervisor on the accurate reception of picking-in products.
• Coordinated with the intake supervisor on the reception of products of good quality.
• Could raise discard sheet formats in case some flowers are rejected on quality basis.

Diploma - Horticulture - University of Eldoret (2010-01 - 2014-12)

Diploma - Business administration - Kingsbridge institute of technologies (2011-01 - 2013-12)

Certificate - Public relations - Kingsbridge institute of technologies (2011-01 - 2012-12)

Certificate - Accounting packages (Sage & QuickBooks) - Kingsbridge institute of technologies (2011-01 - 2012-12)

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education - Kipsimbol Secondary School (2006-01 - 2009-12)

Kenya Certificate of Primary Education - Chesambai Primary (1996-01 - 2004-12)