Week at Technical and Quality

So after a short week, I'll give you a heads-up of what I'm doing and a side note: I can finally understand most of what the people are saying ^^ Hope I don't get the same accent though..

In Technical and Quality, you make sure that the customers gets what he ordered. So without mould. blemishes, weard bits, wood etc. This is checked on every pallet that goes to the customer, but of course, there is always a chance that something slips through. I went with 'mother' (her nick name) to check the quality of some products. So the first thing she said was: let's go check the Gelly Wourten (or something like that), I had no clue whatso-ever what she meant, but on the pallet (which happened too come from Belgium, and according to the English are always full with crap btw) it stated Gehele Wortelen. This went on most of the week.

If the consumer then files a complaint at the supermarket, Pinguin gets the complaint in effect. You sometimes have to start an investigation, of where the pallet came from, and what might have been the problem with it. The product from that pallet can accordingly be traced all the way back to the field it came from! And pinguin might decide not to use the same grower again (rare of course).

Another task of the Technical/Quality is conducting audits (for the environment people or customers) you have to make sure everything is 'clean and tidy' and everybody knows the safety procedures etc. This might seem to be a small task, but on a site this big, it realy soaks up all your time. All hands on deck!

On Thursday, Seminis (a seed company) invited me to a showcase of a new machine that could harvest Brocolli automaticaly (till this moment, it is still done manually). This might be big for the years to comet. In the evening, we went to have dinner with a few guys from Pinguin, and a new intern who came all the way from France.

This sums up most of my week. Next week I'll be working in Procurement, the Buy-side for Pinguin. This means I'll be visiting growers etc, to buy Carrots! On Thursday, there is an innovation conference from Marks & Spencer in London, which I probably will attend as well!

I'll upload some pictures later-on.

Cheers!