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Craig Wright

Catering Manager
Peterborough,Cambrigdeshire

Summary

A highly skilled and successful Catering and Facilities Manager with experience in a wide variety of British Army, Diplomatic Service and commercial environments and Countries. A recognised relationship builder with strong leadership skills and an accomplished organiser who crafts successful long-term partnerships. A talent manager with passion for building successful teams via individual development and succession planning. Results-orientated, self-starting, strong interpersonal and influencing skills, analytical and quantitative, team player, resourceful, and highly motivated.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Multinational Dining Facility Manager

Multinational Force Observers
06.2021 - Current
  • Liaising with Procurement department in Headquarters Rome.
  • Managed equipment and stock on SAP for MDF.
  • Created and managed 5-year Equipment plan, ensuring budgets were correctly forecast..
  • Managed 140 Egyptian Care service employees through all training and policy guidance.
  • Drafted and submitted reports to inform management regarding performance of employees.

Unit Catering Manager / Deputy Supervising Officer

British Army
03.2017 - 10.2020
  • Effective contract management ensure all non-compliances were reported and necessary penalties were enforced. This was completed through daily inspection and audits.
  • Managed all infrastructure issues and ensured business cases were completed for any improvements. This covered all aspects of Facilities management from cleaning to Hard FM projects across 2 sites.
  • Managed a Catering department of 40 staff across multi-site operations in food production, ration procurement, accounting, cleaning, and health & safety matters.
  • Managed all Continuous personal Development (CPD) and Military training for 15 Military Chef of various ranks.
  • Effective contract management ensure all non-compliances were reported and necessary penalties were enforced. This was completed through daily inspection and audits.
  • Maintained all Operational Field Catering Equipment, Maintenance schedules were on time and correctly documented on MJDI.

Squadron Quarter Master Storeman

British Army
06.2013 - 03.2017

Responsible for maintaining 22 training kitchens for students at the Defence School of Catering. This involved ensuring each kitchens equipment was maintained, Inspected, and disposed of when required and tracked on Management of the Joint Deployed Inventory.

Appointed to manage the procurement and ordering of all Soft Facilities equipment for Project WELLESLEY. This involved liaising with suppliers and contractors to successfully manage contracts and meet KPIS.

Processed all requisitions, correctly located storage area, issued, maintained and disposed of on MJDI.

Purchased items not available through the NSN route from approved contractors using my allocated Government Procurement Card

Unit Catering Manager/ Contracts Manager

British Army
10.2012 - 06.2013
  • Subject matter expert for all catering provided across Kenya for the British Army. This covered 6 different locations nationally.
  • National lead responsible for ensuring circa150 staff were correctly trained in food hygiene and work practices.
  • Account Manager supporting and briefing all exercising Catering Departments on all accounting, ration ordering and issues with equipment.
  • Responsible for auditing and signing off all accounts before sending to The UK Land Army.
  • Inspections of all food supplier factories/ locations across Kenya to ensure quality control and all that were producing supplies which complied with British Standards of food hygiene regulations.
  • Responsible for hiring of temporary locally employed civilians.

Education

Various

Various

Skills

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Timeline

Multinational Dining Facility Manager

Multinational Force Observers
06.2021 - Current

Unit Catering Manager / Deputy Supervising Officer

British Army
03.2017 - 10.2020

Squadron Quarter Master Storeman

British Army
06.2013 - 03.2017

Unit Catering Manager/ Contracts Manager

British Army
10.2012 - 06.2013

Various

Various
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