James Johnson

Experience

• 

  Kingstone High School

  Sept 2012 - Sept 2012

  Volunteer Science Department

  Helping in Preparation Rooms setting up practicals for classes, Organised and sorted of chemical cupboard

• 

  Universal Beverages Limited

  Sept 2013 - Dec 2013

  Laboratory technician

  Conducted sugar content analysis on bitter-sweet cider and culinary apples. Conducted water sampling for Legionella contamination. Produced reports and presentations on the work carried out and presented to managers and other staff

• 

  Hill Court Farm Research

  Feb 2014 - Mar 2014

  Temporary Laboratory Assistant

  Extraction of soil for Soil Mineral Nitrogen SNS, Soil Sulphur, and Soil Phosphorus analysis.

• 

  ADAS

  Mar 2014 - Sept 2014

  Assistant Research Technician

  Assisted with marking out and preparation of study sites in the field.Assisted with observations/assessments such as monitoring and identifying invertebrates, diseases and weeds.Sampling, preparation and processing of plant, soil and water samples.Carry out work as described in SOPs and protocols such as treatment applications, agronomic and crop damage scores.

• 

  The HEINEKEN Company

  Sept 2014 - Jan 2023

  Maternity cover secondment.Working with a team of 6 Laboratory Technicians ensuring that all of our site requirements were met across our analytical, microbiological and sensory laboratories. Creating daily and weekly work plans for the team. Rapid re-planning of tasks when high risk events occurred to ensure compliance of site with environmental and safety standards.Functional management and 1st point of contact for issues within the team and for laboratory equipment issues from the production QC laboratories.Developed and implemented training plan to upskill the team members in all of the teams work areas to ensure that skill gaps are closed to enable efficient holiday covering and long term succession planning. Overhauled work planning for increased efficiency, team ownership of tasks and reduced top down management. Show less Working on project BEAM as the quality representative for the site project team leading the development and implementation of Thermofisher Sample Manager (LIMs) within the production areas. During this time I drove the development and testing of Sample Manager to meet the requirements of the business to allow the migration from the use of SAP-QM to LIMs for all quality testing within the packaging and cider production departments. This involved working with the technical supplier team, and our internal stakeholders to ensure a successful implementation. Show less

  • Quality Laboratory Supervisor / Quality Analyst

    Feb 2022 - Jan 2023

  • Assistant Cider Technologist

    Jan 2015 - Feb 2022

  • Quality Representative

    Jan 2018 - Feb 2019

  • Laboratory Technician

    Sept 2014 - Dec 2014
• 

  The HEINEKEN Company

  May 2023 - now

  Laboratory Manager