Sam Fraise

Experience

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  COWS Inc.

  Jun 2016 - Jun 2017

  Assistant Manager

  COWS is an ice cream manufacturer and chain of ice cream parlours based in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Cows was founded in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island in 1983, and has since expanded into cheddar cheese, and cow-themed merchandise. Cows was named "Canada's best ice cream" in a survey of readers of Reader's Digest and named the world's top place to get ice cream by Tauck World Discovery.I was the Assistant Manager at the Whistler Location and my Duties included:• Daily sales balancing and banking.• Ordering and maintaining stock levels.• People management of 20+ staff members.• Customer service with sales.• Cash handling and till reconciliation.• Week/Period end paperwork-collating data, conducting stock counts.• Training new staff and monitoring their progress.• Conducting sales/labour/stock discussions with the manager.• Weekly payroll, liaising with head office. Show less

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  McLaren Vintners

  Jun 2017 - Jul 2018

  Cellar Technician

  Capacity: 4.6million litres & 3500 barrelso A key role in the winemaking process taking whole grapes through fermentation to maturationo Yeast propagation, management and pitchingo Fermentation management and monitoringo Transfers and blending

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  WhiteRoad Ski Company

  Nov 2017 - Dec 2017

  Marketing Intern

  This ski travel company specialises in bespoke ski holidays with a huge variety of deals ranging from budget to luxury. It is a relatively new comapny but the knowledge held by industry experts within the business is expansive. Offering some of the best rates in the business, all trips include accommodation and lift pass. WhiteRoad also offer a whole host of additional extras such as ski hire and travel to the resort.While working at WhiteRoad My responsibilities included:• Writing copy for the website.• Writing engaging blog posts about different subjects relating to skiing. This involved sourcing content from different ski areas as well as key influencers within resorts.• I learnt how to use dotmailer our email marketing platform and built and sent all my own campaigns.• I was given full autonomy in creating engaging content on social media and I have been instrumental in the growth of the following of Instagram and Facebook pages as well as increasing the reach and interactions with social media posts.• Assisting the Marketing Manager with long term strategy and overall goals as well as the White Christmas campaign. Show less

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  Attic Brew Co.

  Jan 2019 - Mar 2024

  Annual output: 13,500HLo Fully automated 30HL brewhouse operating on shift patterns with multiple brews per dayo Training, coaching, and line managing 10 people across brewing, packaging and logistics departments.o Implementation of continuous improvement/Kaizen systems following lean manufacturing, 5S and Total Production Maintenanceo Health and Safety system development, implementation, and managemento Adhering to department KPI’so New Product Development and Research and Developmento Working collaboratively across the industry with external stakeholders to support business development and production.o Project management of expansion and hygienic plant designo Commissioning of new planto Budget management, cost control and margin improvement Show less

  • Head Brewer

    Feb 2021 - Mar 2024

  • Technical Brewer

    Jan 2019 - Feb 2021
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  Molson Coors Beverage Company

  Apr 2024 - now

  Brewing Shift Manager

  - WCSC2.0 lean manufacturing and CI (IWS)- Internal and external stakeholder management- Centreline and CIL management- troubleshooting and loss elimination- hygiene and quality management- GMP, OPEX and process optimisation