Abdelhamed Azamel, Senior Food Safety Auditor

Abdelhamed Azamel

Senior Food Safety Auditor

Equal Assurance Egypt

Location
Egypt
Education
Bachelor's degree, veterinary medicine , Food safety
Experience
13 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :13 years, 4 Months

Senior Food Safety Auditor at Equal Assurance Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since July 2021

Conducting more than 2000 Food safety audits all over career pathway of Catering and kitchens at
Restaurants, Hospitals, Hotels and resorts
Conducting Housekeeping and Room Hygiene audits for offices and hotels
Conducting legionella (water system) audits for Hotels and resorts
Provide reports on Minor and Major findings to clients.
Provide training to employees and management regarding in-house food safety program.
Make recommendations acc. To NFSA requirements and audits findings for improving policies and
procedures if necessary.
Ensure that work activities related to food production are being conducted in a manner that is safe.

Food Safety Auditor at URS Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 2018 to July 2021

Conducting Food safety audits of Catering and kitchens at Restaurants, Hospitals, Hotels and resorts
Conducting Housekeeping and Room Hygiene audits for offices and hotels
Conducting legionella (water system) audits for Hotels and resorts -Including water treatment
facilities, delivering into storage tank and distribution through booster pumps and sand filter system
into different segments of the organisation facilities (Swimming Pools-Jacuzzi-Kitchens-Rooms-Fallsfountains-Firefighting-Irrigation). -Performing Water Temperature, Chlorine and pH Inspections in all
organisation water facilities. -Taking water samples for legionella and TPC tests.
Provide reports on Minor and Major findings to clients.
Provide training to employees and management regarding in-house food safety program.
Make recommendations acc. To audits findings for improving policies and procedures if necessary.
Ensure that work activities related to food production are being conducted in a manner that is safe.
Conducting Food sampling and swabs for Restaurants, Hotels and resorts.

Senior QA & Food Safety Specialist at Mido International Trading Co. ( Egypt agent for Evian water - illy coffee - Haagen Dazs ice cream)
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2017 to August 2018

Implementation of HACCP System, ISO 22000 & ISO 9001.
Develop and draft Quality Management policies and procedures.
Review efficiency of quality and inspection systems.
Evaluate & analyse data to identify areas for improvement in Quality system.
Training of factory staffs on « Basic food hygiene ».
Rebuild the structure of labours responsibilities
Carrying out of food safety and quality action plan with corrective actions and providing with
solutions
Responsible for building up standards operation of procedure SOP and its work instructions with
inspection forum
Maintaining high standards of food hygiene & sanitation and industry safety
Manage pest control programme
Carrying out weekly internal Quality and Food Safety audits
Ensure that safe working methods are adopted by all the staff.
Provide risk solutions and advise the Factory manager in how to avoid the risk and food
contamination.
Examining and receiving all kind of raw food materials before entering warehouse.

Food safety & Q HSE Officer at Compass Egypt for catering & Hotel services
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • September 2015 to January 2018

Detailing & Responsibility:
Maintaining high level of standards of food hygiene and occupational safety at all Compass Egypt locations through effective food safety training and daily TBT to meet with Compass Group Bronze standard
Responsible of the documentation system and implementation of ISO 22000:2005 and HACCP system at the accredited sites of Compass Egypt.
Carrying weekly food safety & occupational AGM audits to compass locations to assert HSE Q system in place
Record and report all critical control points (CCPs) and major findings and conduct Risk Assessment.
Perform needed investigations for customer's complaints with corrective and preventive actions
Ensuring that all of compass staffs are food safety and Health & Safety trained and are implementing the system in the company locations
Ensure that safe working methods are adopted by all the staff.
Provide risk solutions and advise the location manager in how to avoid the risk and food contamination at their location.
Examining and receiving all kind of raw food materials before entering compass warehouse and locations
Report all equipment defects or failure at locations to HSE, Q manager for proper action.
Compass-Egypt locations which I worked in :-
- Central Processing Unit «CPU».
- 57357 Hospital.
- Compass Warehouse.
- Nestlé « Dry & Dolce ».
- Khalda petroleum, Abu El Ghardik

Senior Product specialist at Rameda Pharmaceutical Co
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • March 2011 to September 2015

Major Responsibility:
 Dealing with customers complaints
 Coaching & managing my sales team through sales review
 Analyze the team visits frequency & coverage in Rameda synchronization system.
 Conduct sales analysis & sales forecast plans and Marketing coordination.
Key Achievements:
 Achieved 152 % and ranked the 1st achiever of the company
Get (Incentive trip to DUBAI & MALASYIA )
 Increase sales and market share of Rameda Products through effective management and sales execution.
 Identify and build strong relationships with key opinion leaders customers in the territory.

Education

Bachelor's degree, veterinary medicine , Food safety
  • at Faculty of veterinary medicine
  • May 2010

Specialties & Skills

ISO 22000
Catering
Supplier Audits
Food Safety
Good user for MS.Word, powerpoint, photoshop &Internet
ISO 22000
HACCP System

Languages

English
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Highfield Level 4 Award in Managing Food Safety in Catering (Certificate)
FSMS Auditor/Lead Auditor based on ISO 22000:2005 course (Training)
Training Institute:
From United Registrar of systems ( URS ) From International Register of Certified Auditors (IRCA)
Date Attended:
December 2016
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point "HACCP" system (Training)
Training Institute:
Regional Center For Safety and Quality of Food Stuffs " Robert von Ostertag Laboratory ".
Date Attended:
August 2010

Hobbies

  • Movies , Football