Justin Jabbour
Ruthven,ON
Summary
Knowledgable with vast experience in the produce industry for 11+ years. Proficient in best practices , regulatory requirements, customer satisfaction and industry operations. Talented with analytical approach to planning and day to day operations. Great team leadership, planning, and organizational skills built during a successful career.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Asst Manager, S&R Sup, Asst Manager, Sr QC S&R Sup
Nature Fresh Farms
12.2019 - 02.2024
- Maintained a professional, organized, and safe environment for employees.
- Daily visitation of 6 NF locations, commodities ranging from conventional peppers, organic peppers, all cucumbers conventional and organic, strawberries, trial facilities, organic and conventional specialty tomatoes. Visually inspect inbound product from the GH and finished product in the WH
- Cross-trained existing employees to maximize team agility and performance.
- Developed and maintained great relationships with all departments through out the company. line employees up to sales directors.
- Monitored daily farm production schedules and Sales distribution shipping times to make sure deadlines are being met.
- relaying any information of delays to shipping and receiving managers at the sales distribution center.
- scheduling of employees to different farms when labor is needed for an influx of projected volume at certain locations.
- daily greenhouse walks of all locations for quality, expected volume and any concerns or areas of improvement of commodities.
- weekly meetings with head growers at all locations for projections and quality discussions.
- monthly meeting with directors of growing and commodity mangers to share information regarding packaging, harvest vs garbage kilos, number 1 and number 2 product. discussing crop health of any diseased plants and inspection of future cluster picks.
- analyzing QC inspector data at all locations for any decreases or increases in quality and sharing with those needed.
- following up with allocation schedulers at the farm locations for product availability and if we're able to fulfill orders for that day.
- Discussing quality with commodity managers on a regular basis to maximize customer satisfaction.
- notifying locations of any quality sheet changes.
- making changes to labels/topseal infromation at all locations.
- Informing supervisors, line leads and QC inspectors of specific customer acceptions or changes
- created overpack percentages per commodity packs to maximize profitability and minimize giving away weight.
- created process flows for QC to ensure weight targets are being met depending on product sizing and availability.
- weekly rejection rate meeting with SALES DC
- Head of all farm samples. Great relationship with QC administor at sales dc. scheduling and complition of all sample requests for new, exisiting and future customers.Verification and apporval of all farm item packs for trade shows.
- recently took over drygood inventory and movement at the end of September across all phases.
- Sent out quarterly progression reports to the team regarding quality rejections and shipping issues.
- taste tested all products on a regular basis to discuss with growers of any reduction in flavour.
- Making calls on whether to ship, rework or send product to a different customer to ensure satisfaction of retail customers.
Food & Beverage Supervisor
Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel
04.2019 - 11.2019
- Monitored order requests vs in house inventory and the fulfillment and accuracy of orders for 6 hotel restaurants and 3 main hotel kitchens
- Process the confirmed orders and created order sheets for specific locations.
- Ensured proper isolation of allergen products.
- Ordering and distribution of alcoholic beverages.
- Checking inventory levels and verifying qty's to avoid any possible shortages.
- Schedule drivers with hospitality manager for timely distribution of goods.
OB QC - Prod QC - Prod Sup - Prod Area Manager
Sunset Mastronardi Produce
02.2013 - 01.2019
- Maximized product output with as little grade out as possible.
- Manage staff to ensure orders will be completed to meet shipping times.
- Following FIFO strictly unless stated by commodity managers otherwise.
- Delegating duties to production supervisors, forklift operators and production coodinators allowing adequate time for next order setups.
- Compliance and organization of essential production & employee documents.
- Process purchase orders and allocate product to be used in production runs with commodity managers were unable to.
- Verify production customer order sheets. Correct COO, labels, packaging, product etc.
- Good communication with shipping and receiving on inbound product needed for orders and when orders will be completed.
- Ensuring proper quality allowance according to customer specifications. Maximizing product usability.
- Oversee and asses daily labor needs to ensure proper time untilization.
- Proper duties and procedures are being adhered to when dealing with organic orders.
- Liason with sales, procurement and commodity managers of issues that come up or possible qc issues that were missed on inbound inspections.
- Responsible for the work flow of 80+ employees.
- audit supervisor and gatekeeper paper work.
- Maintain a good working pace from employees through encouragement and motivation to assist in production costs being kept to a minimum while maximizing output, quality and employee moral.
Greenhouse Supervisor + Growers Assisant
Suder Farms
04.2011 - 01.2013
- Maintained clean and well-organized production areas to avoid violations or unnecessary work delays due to hazards or inefficient layouts.
- Monitored workflow to improve employee time management and increase productivity.
- Trained newly hired employees on operating equipment and safety and developed training SOP's for multiple positions to use for reference.
- Achieved results by working with staff to meet daily duties.
- Creating work schedules and weekly plans with owner to establish duties needing to be completed.
- preformed regular quality inspections and coaching with pickers to mitigate poor quality picking.
- Testing of water PH, scouting of bios, disease and plant health.
- Mixing of chemicals
- Mixing of nutrients in the feed room.
Maintenance Assistant
Kapital/MOS Farms
01.2010 - 01.2011
- Troubleshoot minor issues involving farm equipment, electrical, welding, structural and plumbing.
- Preform preventative upkeep on equipment and facilities.
- maintenance on grounds as needed.
- Changing watering lines and gutters.
- Used and operated various types of tools and machinary such as power saws, sanders, grinders, forklifts, and basic hand tools.
- Maintained safety conditions and standards in facility.
Education
No Degree - Accounting And Finance
St Claire College
Windsor2012
Skills
- Employee Performance Evaluations
- Operations management
- Task delegation
- Product and Service Knowledge
- Cost Reduction
- Employee Scheduling
- Communication
- Data entry
- Information analyzation and trends
- Produce Knowledge
Timeline
Asst Manager, S&R Sup, Asst Manager, Sr QC S&R Sup
Nature Fresh Farms
12.2019 - 02.2024
Food & Beverage Supervisor
Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel
04.2019 - 11.2019
OB QC - Prod QC - Prod Sup - Prod Area Manager
Sunset Mastronardi Produce
02.2013 - 01.2019
Greenhouse Supervisor + Growers Assisant
Suder Farms
04.2011 - 01.2013
Maintenance Assistant
Kapital/MOS Farms
01.2010 - 01.2011
No Degree - Accounting And Finance
St Claire College
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