Allan Biel (Charity - Wairarapa Plunket)

Allan is a long standing and very valuable member of the team at Breadcraft. He has a vast range of skills and experience having done his apprenticeship on the bread and smallgoods plants and currently looks after the production of all pita, tortilla, wraps and specialty products which are made in Masterton and distributed nation wide. Allan is always happy to take on additional responsibilities and is a key member of the bakery team ensuring that all aspects of the bakery are maintained to the highest standards.

 

Diane Taku (Charity - Wairarapa Cancer Society)

 

Di joined the company in April 2003 and is currently helps in the Turkish and Panini shift. 

Di has worked on a severely shifts to help where necessary and to learn more of other lines. The Riga shift are grateful; to her as when its knock off time Di will always makes sure that the shift has had it’s breaks before she goes home.  Di also works extra hours and shifts, weekend work when required.  Nothing is a problem for Di, she is always looking for extra work.  Di always has a smile on her face when she’s at work.

She has proved herself to be a great asset to both her team and the bakery when required and this is being proven again and again by the consist effort.
 

Rawiri Tanirau (Charity - Child Cancer Research)

 

Rawiri is relatively new to the operation having joined Breadcraft in May of this year. Ra has been involved primarily on the packaging and dispatch of our new Artisan range for domestic and export sales.

He has given 100% effort in every aspect of his position and has become (in a very short time) a responsible & dependable member of our team who can lend a hand to many areas throughout the facility which we are keen for him to explore further within Breadcraft in the future. He has also shown great team spirit in helping out covering extra hours during extended production days during the past few weeks.

 

Rawiri is a valued team member and a strong team player who we hope will make baking his career at Breadcraft.

Anthony Wills (Charity - Cancer Society)

 

Anthony joined the company in 2002 on the Riga shift were he was heavily involved with the manufacture of a lot of new products which set the benchmark for the quality product produced today.

Anthony took a break in 2006 and returned in 2008. Since his return, Anthony has taken on every challenge, working most of the Saturdays required while building food service stocks for new customers.

In early 2009 he took on the role as Riga Shift number one Charge Hand; this position had a great number of challenges and skills which needed to be learnt.

 

Anthony has thrived on these challenges and has proven himself to be a very valuable member of our Breadcraft Team

Geoff Bailey  (Charity - St Johns)

Geoff has been with Breadcraft since April 2004.  He started in the factory and as a relief driver then full time driver on the inter – company truck. Geoff also delivers our bread to the shops in Eketahuna. He spends most of his day in Palmerston North where he assembles orders for our contractors and brings these along with crates and pallets back to Masterton and looks after the truck. Well done Geoff on getting this award.

 

Dwayne Stephens (Charity - Wairarapa Cancer Society)

 

Dwayne has been instrumental in assisting with the commissioning and start-up of our new packaging line which arrived late from the German supplier back in February. He has had to quickly learn all aspects of the machine in a very short period of time in order to meet a national launch date which he and his team managed to achieve admirably.

 Dwayne has given this launch 100% commitment and has worked exceptionally well with the machinery suppliers and packaging agents that were present during start-up and following commissioning.  We are all proud to have him within our team and appreciate his skills, abilities and dedication toward the goals of this plant.
 

Robert Towgood (Charity - Wairarapa Cancer Society)

 

Robert started in April 2002 and has moved around the bakery on different plants over the years.

 Robert has moved forward in all areas of the bakery with making sure the Turkish and panini are produced at a high standard.  This month he has been making the doughs as well as keeping an eye on the plant to insure that we have a good product at the end of the days bake.

 Over the past year Robert has shown that he has the leadership skills and with his team they have provided a great product.

Brent Storey (Charity - Wairarapa branch of the children’s heart foundation)

The story so far - with over 20years experience in the food industry and with just over a years experience in the baking industry

Brent started life here has a casual with just 2 weeks work. One year later and full time has risen to most challenges from doing night shift, to long hours; Brent is currently the 2IC in bread dispatch.

Todd Wilton (Charity - Outward Bound)

After spending several years studying business at Massey, Todd returned to the Wairarapa taking up an adult apprenticeship in which he is due to finish in the next couple of months.  Todd has learnt many new skills and helped train new staff members along the way.  During 2008 he spent time in Palmerston North bakery to help train new staff on their plant.

We wish Todd all the best on his apprenticeship and achievement on being the first employee of the month in 2009.

Ryan Swenson (Charity - Ronald McDonald House)

Since joining the company back in mid 2008, Ryan has fast-tracked from dispatch to bagger operator.  His personal goal is to secure an apprenticeship within the baking industry.  Ryan brings a good positive attitude to the team.

Gail Pye (Charity - Westpac Helicopter Trust)

Gail has been employed at Breadcraft Wai Ltd since January 2006 and has worked her way though to be a leading hand for the past 12 months.Gail continues to improve her team when time permits and she tries to make sure that her team are well informed.  Gail runs the packing dispatch team for the Riga shift that produce high quality press and Die line tortillas as well as pita for the whole country. We provide 50.000 units per week in this area and with out Gail’s leadership and commutation to other leading hands and staff this area would not run as smooth. 
 

Margaret Brooks (Charity - Plunket)

Margaret is the driving force behind our customer services team and is always very pleasant and helpful both on the phone to customers and within the entire bakery, always happy to assist in any role she is involved with.  As well as maintaining an extremely high standard of communication and rapport with local and inter-company customers, Margaret is also involved with tally preparation, account maintenance and many reconciliations that are extremely important to out operation.  She is very conscientious in all areas and insists on a high degree of accuracy while maintaining her usual pleasant and co operative disposition to the team.