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FRANKLINE OUMA OBURE

FRANKLINE OUMA OBURE

General,Operations And Technical Manager
Nairobi

Summary

Experienced in the fresh produce industry for over 20 years, this seasoned professional has expertise in Packhouse operations, implementation of food safety standards and audits, business process design, efficiency review, good agricultural practices, and the implementation of social and ethical standards. Additionally, possesses a strong background in staff training and post-harvest management within the cut flowers sector. With diverse knowledge and extensive experience, well-equipped to contribute to the success of any organization in the fresh produce industry.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages

Work History

General Manager Packhouses and Technical Lead

AAA Growers Limited
Nairobi, Nairobi Province Kenya
08.2018 - Current
  • Responsible for 6 vegetable packhouses (1 HighCare and 3 premium Packhouses) and 2 Flowers /Roses Packhouses
  • Production capacity: Veg Packhouses approximately 60 tonnes and Cut Flowers 10,000 stems a day
  • Heading a team of 6 Packhouse managers to ensure that all Packhouses run to the budgets that has been set
  • Coordinating across departments to enable Packhouse to run at optimum looking at full order allocation and service levels
  • Formulating planned preventative maintenance for all equipment within the Packhouses
  • New Product Development both Vegetable and Roses
  • Hiring of staff and managing cost and labor numbers
  • Customer complaints tracking and root cause analysis
  • Coordination of customer visits
  • Onboarding of new clients and liaising with the commercial team on developing new markets
  • Coordinating raw material requirements for the packhouses and monitoring of the utilization
  • Coordinating with the technical team that all audits are done within the renewal dates set and that all systems in place for continuous improvement
  • Developing training matrix for all staff both in Roses and Vegetables
  • Managing the Social standards set within the business and audits (Ethical Trade Initiative and Fairtrade standards)
  • Managing all CSR projects across all the 4 farms
  • Management representative into the Fairtrade Premium committee
  • HACCP/TACCP/VACCP team Leader
  • Member of senior staff recruitment panel

Consultant

TechnoServe
Nairobi, Kenya
10.2024 - Jan2025
  • Company Overview: FCDO Funded Project Supporting Cinch Markets
  • Consulted for TechnoServe under the FCDO Project, supporting Cinch Markets to establish their Production and Export model
  • Key Areas covered : Project scoping to review farming, raw material quality and post harvest handling
  • Building CAPEX & OPEX assumptions for the post harvest packing process
  • This included product design, layout of plant and equipments, Operations management, Quality management, supply chain logistics and packhouse set up
  • Supporting Cinch with sourcing of various packaging materials to help with sample preparation and for developing their website and marketing
  • Technical and risk assessment review and reporting for the two case scenarios covering the supply chain and full process flow
  • IBP Development Support : Validation of cost assumptions and Final inclusion business plan
  • The project was successfully delivered with all KPI/Deliverable attained within the agreed timelines
  • FCDO Funded Project Supporting Cinch Markets
  • Daily Rate: USD 450

Group Technical Manager

AAA Growers Limited
05.2010 - 08.2018
  • Heading Four Vegetable farms and 5 Packhouse and Roses green houses
  • Head of Technical Department comprising of 5 Quality Assurance Managers based at the farms and 6 Technical Assistants based at the head office
  • Third Party and Second Party audit preparations (BRC/Global gap/TN10/Field to Fork/Marks and Spencer Hygiene audit/Tesco Food manufacturing standards/Sainsbury Food safety audit/ Morison’s Food Manufacturing Standards)
  • Internal Audits for the Pack houses and Farms
  • Auditing of Suppliers based on various standards
  • Ethical audits for the Farms/Packhouses based on SMETA guidelines
  • New product Development Co-coordinator
  • Training Coordinator and Training needs assessments for the staff
  • HACCP Team Leader for the group
  • Quality Assurance Manual development/Document control
  • Customer complaints, investigation and follow up of corrective actions
  • Microbiological /Hygiene surveillance
  • Arranging and conducting customer visits around the farms and Packhouses
  • Ensuring all National regulations by the National environment Authority –NEMA, Occupational health and safety regulations (OSHA) are met and adhere to
  • Heading the controls of Outgrowers and own farms to ensure compliance to the EU regulations on pesticide usage
  • MPS Audits for the Flower production

Group Technical Assistant

AAA Growers Limited
08.2009 - 04.2010
  • Internal audits for the Pack houses
  • Hygiene inspections and audits
  • Participating in Third party audits
  • Assisting the Technical manager with reviewing the Quality Assurance Manual
  • Customer complaints investigation
  • Microbiological surveillance of Pack house Micro testing
  • New product development
  • Staff training

Site Technical Manager

AAA Growers Limited
08.2007 - 07.2009
  • Site Quality management
  • Customer complaints and investigations
  • Third Party audit preparations and participation
  • Ensuring that the Pack house hygiene standards is maintained
  • Review of SOPs/SSOPs/Working records
  • Heading team of Quality Controllers
  • Canteen Audits
  • Ensuring raw materials meet the specifications at intake
  • Online and Finished products quality checks
  • Micro surveillance of the factory hygiene
  • Ensuring that Pack house equipments/PPE are in working condition
  • New Product development Assistant
  • Member of HACCP

Assistant Packhouse Manager

AAA Growers Limited
08.2006 - 07.2007
  • Order Planning for the Pack houses in liaison with Sales Team at the head office
  • Labour management for the packhouses
  • Raw material requisition and yield analysis
  • Training coordinator
  • Establishing and maintaining coordination of truck logistics from the farms and Airport

Quality Assurance Manager

AAA Growers Limited
05.2005 - 07.2006
  • Ensuring all raw materials conform to the intake specifications
  • Process controls for all prepared products for the export market
  • Heading team of Quality controllers and allocation of duties
  • New product developments for the UK and European market
  • Pack house hygiene and deep cleaning
  • Staff trainings
  • Maintaining of all Pack house due diligence records
  • Audit preparations (Third party/Second party-Supermarket audits)
  • Hygiene and Microbiological surveillance

Quality Assurance Supervisor

Everest Enterprises
09.2004 - 04.2005
  • Intake assessments checks For conformance to set specifications
  • Online product checks
  • Process controls
  • Cold chain management
  • Shelf life assessment
  • Training co-ordination with the QA Manager
  • Outgrowers training on raw material quality and hygiene
  • Pack house hygiene

Quality Assurance Attaché

03.2002 - 07.2002
  • Manufacture of pet foods
  • Food filler materials processing
  • Chemical, physical and microbiological analysis of material
  • Organoleptic tasting of products
  • Factory inspections
  • Raw material checks
  • In process checks
  • Processing of cake pre-mixes

Education

Diploma in Food Science Technology -

The Technical University of Kenya
01.1999 - 01.2001

K.C.S.E. - undefined

Kisumu Boys High School
01.1993 - 01.1996

BBA - Business Administration And Management

St Paul’s University
Kenya
04.2022 - Current

Skills

  • Research & report writing

  • People management

  • Leadership

  • Analytical skills

  • Product design and development

  • HACCP Expert and trainer knowledge

  • UK Retailer Supermarket Standards

  • Communication skills

  • Interpersonal skills

  • Fast learner

  • Process review

  • Operations management

  • Project management

  • Team leadership

  • Team building

  • Performance improvement

  • Operations oversight

  • Leadership and team building

  • Quality management

  • Effective leader

  • Goal setting

  • Strategic planning

  • Training and development

Keystandards

  • BRCGS Food Safety Standard
  • Marks and Spencer Food safety and Hygiene standards
  • Tesco Food Manufacturing Standard
  • Morrisons Food Safety Standard
  • Globalgap Standards
  • Marks and Spencer Select Grower
  • Tesco Nurture
  • KS1758
  • Grasp
  • Ethical Trade Initiative (SMETA ETI)
  • Fairtrade Standard
  • MPS Standard
  • HACCP Food Safety Standards

Companiessupported

  • TechnoServe, FCDO Funded Project Supporting Cinch Markets
  • Subati Group, BRC implementation, Global gap implementation and SMETA ETI, various trainings and process flow design.
  • Phyma Fresh Limited, HACCP, BRC Preparations and various trainings
  • Bella Farms, HACCP, Globalgap preparation, various trainings
  • PIL, BRC Preaudits and HACCP Trainings

Personal Information

  • Year of Birth: 08/01/78
  • Nationality: Kenyan
  • Religion: Christian

Technicaltrainings

  • Marks and Spencers Field to Fork Select Grower auditor
  • Waitrose Farm Assessment
  • Lean management/Kaizen
  • BRC Auditors training June 2015 by DNV-GL
  • HACCP and TOT refresher training 2015 funded by PIP Feb 2015
  • Marks and Spencer Food Hygiene by FSC UK Sept 2014
  • Environmental awareness course
  • Global standards for Food safety
  • Ethical Awareness training by Partner Africa 23rd & 24th April 2012
  • HACCP Awareness Refresher Training by Tembo Consultancies 13-14 Sept 2011
  • QMS/Lead Auditors Training by Quality Plus Feb 2011 –IRCA (ISO 9001:2008)
  • Sedex system by Africa Now 2010
  • Ethical Trade Awareness by Partner Africa in 2012
  • Marks and Spencer Hygiene Training by Food Safety Consortium UK
  • First Aid by Red Cross 30/04/2009
  • HACCP internal Auditors course Feb 2009 by Bureau Veritas
  • HACCP Auditing - The Basics by Camden and Chorleywood
  • Personal hygiene and Food safety (Several trainings by Ecolab and Johnson Diversey)
  • Occupational health and safety 06/06/06 (Occupational Risk assessments, Fire risk assessment and First aid in places of work)
  • Pest Management by Rentokil
  • Metal Detector Operation 2010 & 2012

Timeline

Consultant

TechnoServe
10.2024 - Jan2025

BBA - Business Administration And Management

St Paul’s University
04.2022 - Current

General Manager Packhouses and Technical Lead

AAA Growers Limited
08.2018 - Current

Group Technical Manager

AAA Growers Limited
05.2010 - 08.2018

Group Technical Assistant

AAA Growers Limited
08.2009 - 04.2010

Site Technical Manager

AAA Growers Limited
08.2007 - 07.2009

Assistant Packhouse Manager

AAA Growers Limited
08.2006 - 07.2007

Quality Assurance Manager

AAA Growers Limited
05.2005 - 07.2006

Quality Assurance Supervisor

Everest Enterprises
09.2004 - 04.2005

Quality Assurance Attaché

03.2002 - 07.2002

Diploma in Food Science Technology -

The Technical University of Kenya
01.1999 - 01.2001

K.C.S.E. - undefined

Kisumu Boys High School
01.1993 - 01.1996

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