Thomas Roßner

Project Manager in Animal Husbandry and Feed

Thomas Roßner
Möhnesee, Germany

Experience

Jan 2023 - Dec 2024
2 years

Project Manager in Animal Husbandry and Feed

Mid-sized company – up to 90 employees

  • Quality management consulting and support for certification of product safety standards
  • Gap analysis, planning, document structure and practical implementation
  • Conducting internal audits
  • Conducting training sessions
  • Supporting the QMS system partners with questions about the system, efficiency and overall quality
  • Processing database entries related to feed monitoring
  • Creating circulars for system partners and certification bodies
  • Member of the crisis management team
  • Managing projects from development to market launch, including integrating new products into operational processes and coordinating interfaces with purchasing, production, engineering and quality assurance departments
  • Point of contact for suppliers and certification bodies
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
1 year

Head of Quality Assurance

  • Product specification: technical, organizational and disciplinary leadership of the product development team with up to 6 team members
  • Managing projects from development to market launch and integrating new products into operational processes
  • Food defense coordination
  • Internal auditor: preparing, conducting and defining corrective actions for internal and external audits
  • Specification creation and review, layout checks
  • Point of contact for suppliers
  • Creating and maintaining QM documents and product specifications
  • Presenting new developments internally and to customers
  • Preparing and conducting training sessions, supporting external audits
  • Label review and approval
  • Handling customer complaints
Jan 2015 - Dec 2021
7 years

Quality Management Officer and Head of Product Development

Mid-sized company – up to 500 employees

  • Conducting benchmarks and revising documents
  • Actively developing and optimizing the QMS
  • Maintaining and improving the quality management system built with my involvement according to national and international standards (BRC, IFS, AIB, OHSAS 18001, QS feed, Fairtrade, Rainforest Alliance, UTZ)
  • Conducting internal system audits and supporting corresponding customer and certification audits
  • Coordinating and conducting internal system audits and supplier audits at home and abroad
  • Monitoring corrective and improvement actions from all audits and site inspections
  • Maintaining and verifying the HACCP system as HACCP team leader
  • Coordinating and contributing to the updating and further development of QM guideline documents, work instructions and process instructions
  • Planning and conducting training sessions, especially in hygiene and product safety
  • Managing the pest monitoring system at both production sites
  • Informing and supporting specialists and managers on changes in standards and optimizing systems to meet requirements
  • Member of the sustainability team and supporting site certification according to the ETI Ethical Trade Initiative 2011
  • Contributing to the planning and implementation of a newly built production facility for extruded products and preparing for initial certification according to IFS, BRC and AIB
Jan 2013 - Dec 2015
3 years

Quality Assurance Specialist

Mid-sized company – up to 180 employees

  • Responsible for food defense coordination
  • Internal auditor: preparing, conducting and defining corrective actions for internal and external audits
  • Optimizing existing products in terms of quality, technology and cost
  • Point of contact for suppliers and layout checks
  • Creating and maintaining QM documents and product specifications
  • Tracking projects and presenting new developments internally and to customers
  • Preparing and conducting training sessions, supporting external audits
  • Label review and approval
  • Handling customer complaints
Jan 2012 - Dec 2012
1 year

Laboratory Technician in Quality Assurance

  • Microbiological tests and documentation
  • Calibration and maintenance of testing equipment
  • Conducting external audits at suppliers and co-packers to approve raw materials/finished products and maintain quality standards
Jan 2005 - Present
21 years 1 month

Senior Consultant

QM-Beratung Thomas Roßner

  • Freelance auditor for AGRIZERT GmbH
  • Interim management
  • Quality management consulting and support for certification of product safety standards
  • GAP analysis, planning, document structure and practical implementation
  • Conducting internal audits and supplier audits
  • Conducting training sessions
  • Project management and project execution
Jan 2005 - Dec 2015
11 years

Head of Quality Management

Mid-sized company – up to 150 employees

  • Responsible for defining internal standards and maintaining quality-related measures
  • Conducting training sessions
  • Handling complaints and participating in audits
Jan 2001 - Dec 2020
20 years
Schwerte, Germany

Quality Management Officer

FELIX GmbH & Co. KG (Part of Intersnack Group)

  • Responsible for certification audits (e.g., IFS, MSC-ASC, V-Label) and customer audits
  • Conducting training sessions and supporting QA system partners
  • Coordinating and conducting internal and supplier audits domestically and abroad
  • Managing product development projects from concept to market launch and integration into operations
  • Coordinating interfaces with purchasing, production, engineering, and quality assurance departments
  • Acting as point of contact for suppliers and certification bodies
Jan 2001 - Dec 2001
1 year

Assistant to Operations Management (Raw Materials/Finished Products)

Mid-sized company – up to 150 employees

  • Preparing production, personnel, and weekly performance report statistics
  • Preparing product presentations
  • Contributing to product development
  • Acting on behalf of the quality assurance department
  • Proactively liaising with authorities, associations, and external experts
  • Planning and conducting training sessions
  • Serving on the crisis management team
Jan 1999 - Dec 2001
3 years

Shift Supervisor, Deputy Product Group Leader

  • Supervising a production line
  • Collaborating on product development and test execution
  • Supporting the quality assurance department
  • Planning and conducting microbiological, physical, and chemical tests
  • Leading the lab team and working with external laboratories
  • Preparing and supporting audits and supplier evaluations
Jan 1995 - Dec 2005
11 years

Head of Quality Assurance

  • Implementing, conducting, and monitoring quality assurance measures throughout the production area
  • Leading the lab team: planning and evaluating microbiological, physical, and chemical tests in the in-house lab, as well as collaborating with external laboratories
  • Conducting internal audits to verify the quality management system/IFS/HACCP concept
  • Preparing and supporting annual surveillance audits and customer audits
  • Conducting regular supplier evaluations and visits
  • Projects: implementing the HACCP concept and a quality management system according to ISO 9000:1994 and IFS Food within the company

Skills

  • It – Ms Office User Programs
  • Ms Office Applications (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook)
  • Csb
  • Sharepoint Document Management
  • Navision
  • Sap Business Client 8.00
  • Sap Recipe Database Management
  • Product Information System Based On Access Database
  • Agile Specification Management, Release Workflow
  • Grs Signum Software: Raw Material Management, Specification Creation, Ingredient List Compilation According To Lmiv, Administration
  • Interspec: Specification Creation

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Russian
Advanced

Education

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State-certified Food Technician · Food Technology

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Diploma Engineer in Food Technology (FH) · Food Technology

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Bachelor of Engineering, Food Technology · Food Technology

Certifications & licenses

Green Claims: Communicating Sustainability Safely

QS Academy

Internal Quality Auditor Certificate

Internal Auditor

Nutrition C License

Academy of Sports

Participation in Food Defense Training

FSPCA Certificate

IFS Lead Auditor Certificate

Berlin

PCQI Training

Düsseldorf

GRS SIGNUM Software Certificate – Basic Course I: General Handling, Raw Material Management (Ingredients, Allergens, GMO, Nutritional Values)

Kempen

Crisis Management: Communicating Safely in the Food Industry

QS Academy

DNV Info Day – New Requirements of

Certificate in Introduction to Sensory Testing According to DIN 10961: Training of Test Personnel for Sensory Testing

Bremerhaven

Certified Quality Management Representative

TÜV SÜD

BRCGS Food Auditor

Certified Quality Management Specialist

TÜV SÜD

Occupational Safety Management Representative for the Frozen Food Industry

BRCGS Packaging Auditor

European Food Law: Current

QS Auditor IFS / BRC

Intersnack, Cologne

BGN Occupational Safety for Managers

IFS Auditor

Systematic Leadership Management

KIN Foreign Body Prevention Developments

DGQ/EOQ Auditor

Basics of Food Hygiene Occupational Safety Representative

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