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Biji Varghese, Quality Control Technician

Biji Varghese

Quality Control Technician·Leclerc Biscuits

Canada

Diploma, Food And Life Sciences

Work experience

Total years of experience: 5 years, 5 months

Quality Control Technician

October 2023 - Present

Leclerc Biscuits

Cornwall, Canada

October 2023 - Present

• Led end-to-end to quality assurance operations across production, packaging and
sanitation, ensuring 100% compliance with CFIA, HACCP, GMP and BRC standards.
• Served as primary owner of HACCP and CCP verification resulting in zero critical
food safety violations during internal, customer and regulatory audits.
• Conducted root cause analysis and trend analysis on quality data and customer
complaints, driving initiatives that cut repeat customer complaint by 50%.
• Partnered with operations, maintenance and sanitation leadership to implement
process improvements that reduced product holds and, rework by 23%.
• Released, blocked, or rejected materials in SAP based on inspection results and
created, and reviewed quality notifications, deviations, CAPAs and supporting on -
time production and shipment with performance with greater than 92%
• Mentored and trained production operators on GMPs, food safety culture and best
documentation practices, improving compliance audit scores.

Company industry:
Food & Beverage Production
Job role:
Quality Control

QA and R&D Technician

January 2023 - January 2026

Wings Food products

Etobicoke, Canada

January 2023 - January 2026

• Supported new product development and reformulation projects, contributing to
the successful launch of 3-4 products annually from bench-scale through pilot
trials.
• Executed laboratory experiments, sample preparation, and analytical testing with
more than 99% data accuracy.
• Conduced pilot plant and scale-up trials, identifying process adjustments that
improved yield by 10-15% and reduced batch failures by 20%.
• Conducted shelf life, stability, and performance testing, enabling data-decisions
that extended product shelf life by 20-30%.
• Support sensory, consumer or performance testing panels, analyzing results to
guide formulation improvements and enhance product acceptance scores by 8%.

Company industry:
Consumer Packaged Goods Manufacture

Research Assistant

January 2021 - December 2022

Conestoga Food Research and Innovation,

Kitchener, Canada

January 2021 - December 2022

CFRIL collaborates with organizations across the food processing, packaging and food
service sectors to deliver practical, scalable solutions and support every stage of the
product development cycle—from concept to commercialization.
• Partnered with food science experts to assist in physical, chemical and
microbiological testing services in product development.
• Identified primary modes of shelf-life failures (microbial growth, oxidation, texture,
degradation, packaging failure), contributing to data driven recommendation that
extended shelf life by20-30%
• Conducted NIR spectrometric analysis on 500+ samples for key parameters such as
moisture, protein, fat and compositional attributes.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate NIR analytics into product
development.

Company industry:
Food & Beverage Production

Education

Conestoga college Institute of Technology

December 2025

December 2025

Diploma, Food And Life Sciences

Canada

Mahatma Gandhi University

March 2020

March 2020

Bachelor's degree, Biotechnology

India

Skills

AUDITING
Intermediate
AUDITING
Intermediate
BUILDING INSPECTIONS
Intermediate
BUILDING INSPECTIONS
Intermediate
CORRECTIVE AND PREVENTIVE ACTION CAPA
Intermediate
CORRECTIVE AND PREVENTIVE ACTION CAPA
Intermediate
DETAIL ORIENTED
Intermediate
DETAIL ORIENTED
Intermediate
FOOD SAFETY AND SANITATION
Intermediate
FOOD SAFETY AND SANITATION
Intermediate
HAZARD ANALYSIS AND CRITICAL CONTROL POINTS HACCP
Intermediate
HAZARD ANALYSIS AND CRITICAL CONTROL POINTS HACCP
Intermediate
OPERATIONS
Intermediate
OPERATIONS
Intermediate
PRODUCT QUALITY QA QC
Intermediate
PRODUCT QUALITY QA QC
Intermediate
QUALITY ASSURANCE
Intermediate
QUALITY ASSURANCE
Intermediate
USER CONTROLS
Intermediate
USER CONTROLS
Intermediate

Languages

English
Beginner
French
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Certifications
HACCP Level 3
Principles of Internal Auditing