Agnieszka Podyma

Experience

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  ANILOP

  May 2011 - Sept 2015

  Company Director

  Set up and run a cleaning business offering a wide range of services to both commercial and residential customers with my sisters as a business partner.Recruit and manage a team of 60 cleaners on a mixture of full time and part time contracts including management of all recruitment activities, performance management, shift plans and management of leave and absences for the whole team.Attract new business either through recommendation, advertisement or tender submissions.Negotiate contracts and agree required shift plans as well as recruit where required to fulfill contracts.Act as an escalation point for both staff issues as well as customer queries and complaints.Identify best approach for each new contract and job to ensure the right materials and machines are being used by staff to fulfill the job to customers expectations.Introduction and training for all new and existing staff including training for equipment as well as health and safety training.Maintaining existing contracts and building good working relations with customers to ensure a high level of satisfaction.Staying in close contact with suppliers and attendance of conferences to assess new products and machines. Show less

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  Pennine Healthcare

  Oct 2015 - Apr 2016

  Medical Packs Operative

  Prepare orders for private sector as well as public sector (NHS) customers.Fill in order sheets to book the right amount of parts from the warehouse for the order to be processed. Visual checks for all parts to ensure they are in good condition and ensure required medical hygiene standards are adhered to.Prepare standardized packs of medical equipment for a large variety of purposes including hospital surgery or dentist appointments.Assess requirements of each assignment to ensure sufficient parts are available and decide on the most effective process to create the packs required.Work closely with colleagues to ensure the packs are prioritized correctly as part of the packaging process and delivered to customers on time.Plan own work and those of colleagues on other processes to ensure jobs are completed in time before handing over to the next shift. Show less

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  Nestlé

  Mar 2016 - Feb 2017

  Production Operative (Coffee)

  Take over issues and work from previous shift to ensure consistency and problem resolution across shifts.Order required ingredients to process each job, load and program packaging machine to ensure each batch is packaged and labelled correctly.Responsible for regular quality control processes after 3hrs and end of day to check weight and quality of the product. Escalate any issues and ensure timely resolution of defects.Responsibility for documentation on each batch including ongoing quality control checks, issues raised and required rework.Cleaning and basic maintenance of machines. Show less

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  MINI Plant Oxford

  Feb 2017 - now

  Production Operative (Automotive Engineering)

  Ability to work on a wide variety of different processes after actively seeking to be trained beyond the usual remit.Take part in start of shift team meetings to analyze issues and improve processes.Responsible for ensuring all parts are available for whole session and tools are in good condition and operational.Work closely with a wide range of colleagues who perform other processes to ensure smooth handover between stages.Work to tight quality and performance criteria to meet shift expectations and targets.Quality control and raising of issues/defects to management if requiredDue to my extensive experience I am regularly consulted to feed into process improvements and on a number of occasions my suggestions have led to changes in processes for all staff resulting in considerable efficiency gains.Assessment of new prototypes or processes to give early feedback on viability and potential improvements ahead of implementation.Training of new staff on a wide variety of processes.Liaising with a broad range of technical and non technical staff from warehousing, engineering to management. Show less

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  Abingdon and Witney College

  Mar 2017 - Apr 2020

  Cleaner

  Handled equipment, chemicals and materials properly and with caution.Used time management and efficient cleaning methods to meet deadlines.Mixed, used and properly stored hazardous chemical cleaners to reduce risk of injury or illness.Adhered to safety protocols, resulting in zero complaints, hazards or lost-time accidents.Worked alongside other cleaners to complete jobs in corporate office buildings.