Food and Drink Engineer of the Year
The food and drink community celebrated success on 19 September 2019 as the winners of the Food and Drink Federation Awards were announced.
Alexandra Agg - Mondelez International
Alex Agg is at the start of an incredibly promising engineering career and is
already having a big
impact at Mondelez International. She has worked for the business for three
years following her
graduation with a First Class Chemical Engineering degree, starting out in RD&Q
in recipe development
and line commissioning.
In 2017, she moved into Chocolate Manufacturing at the iconic Bournville Factory
as a Process
Engineer for two production lines. Having quickly reviewed and improved process
control and training of
operators on how to run the lines in the optimum way, she was promoted to the
role of Senior Process
Engineer. With accountability for more lines, Alex really got to grips with
loss
analysis to ensure she was
focusing the right time and attention in the right areas – the study and
methodology she employed
became the benchmark for the whole factory. Consequently, the site was given
the
Global award for the
best improvement in waste.
Alex not only physically studied the lines and interpreted key data to determine
themes, she engaged
and involved every operator and technician on the line and sought their counsel
and experience on what
they could see, hear, and feel every day and took on board their ideas for
improvement. This study
enabled Alex to create several tracks of work that were technically
challenging,
but also resulted in 'ways
of working' changes for employees. The style in which she coached the teams
through it was exemplary.
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