Syed Adil Bukhari

Management of the Quality Assurance and Food Safety teams
• Food Safety Team
 Verify compliance with corporate and government requirements.
 Includes auditing, pest control, training and general food safety support
 Support for operations on new and existing programs

• Quality Assurance Team
 Food safety and quality stewardship for all SKU’s
 Initiated a HACCP based food safety program for entire Foods division
 Support product quality evaluation with technical, sensory and shelf-life expertise

• Inter Departmental Technical Support
 Lead resource for corporate & individual sites on regulatory, quality assurance and food safety issues
 Act in a “translation” role between the technical and production units

• Strategic Planning for the Quality Assurance Department
 Create the strategic direction of the Quality Assurance department to ensure it aligns with the company’s overall objectives
 Assume a leadership role on significant issues affecting the Quality Assurance functional groups

• Crisis Management & Recall
 Alternate lead for emergency response team, including procedures and strategic plans for crisis management
 Manage recall responses for all Arasco recalls

• General Department Management
 Coach, mentor & train immediate and secondary reports
 Maintain department adherence to corporate policies & procedures
 Responsible to create and ensure adherence to budgets

• Manage a State-of-the Art poultry processing facility from STORK, Holland with processing capacity of 12, 000 Birds per hour along with seven direct and 500 indirect reports.
• Vast experience in Fresh as well as Frozen foods environment.
• Experience in dealing with manufacturing lines and equipment made by MAREL-STORK, MEYN, CFS, GEA and Cryovac etc.
• First-hand experience with plant start-ups and capacity upgrades.
• Responsible for financial performance of the processing plant, product costing, implementing cost reduction initiatives, capital forecasting and multi-million Riyal P&L management.
• Strategic planning, policy formulation and execution at the SBU level in line with the overall corporate goals.

• Oversaw 2 Managers and 4 Sr. Executives who monitored bio-security, food safety & quality at multiple sites (Hatchery, Poultry farms, Poultry processing)
• Technical resource for raw material procurement, operations and retail distribution
• Created product monitoring processes which helped reduce downgrades by ~20%
• Primary contact for IDAC laboratory to help produce ~400 food safety reports / year, ongoing analytical testing of foods and special projects management
• Instrumental in developing and implementing HACCP based Food safety Management system ISO 22000 and also Quality Management System (FSMS and QMS team leader)

• Responsible for the food safety & quality of products received, warehoused and shipped at the Cold Chain (poultry meat, seafood) distribution and retail centers • Recall Team Member • MOFPI (Ministry of Food Processing Industries) Liason