Quality Assurance Manager
Gulf Agency Company (GAC)
Total years of experience :8 years, 0 Months
• Manage QA team & QA representatives across business units, implementing and overseeing QA procedures and policies.
• Ensure company-wide compliance with ISO9001, ISO22000, ISO13485, and ISO28000 standards.
• Develop and communicate Key Performance Indicator (KPI) materials, facilitating transparent strategy formulation and execution.
• Manage in assessing customer requirements and ensuring they are met.
• Manage demonstrating quality requirements to suppliers. Manage Supplier Vetting and QHSSE System.
• Working with the HODs from 6 companies of the industrial group which covers sectors such as retail, manufacturing, engineering and customer services to establish IMS (ISO9001, ISO45001, ISO14001).
• Reviewing current business activities and
developing process maps (as-is) that capture flow of work & associated risks.
• Leading brain storming sessions with stakeholders to re-engineer process to
best practice, identify process gaps and areas of improvement and develop (to-be) process map.
• Developing & maintaining documentation (SOPs, Forms, & WIs) to ensure clarity of new accountabilities and roles & responsibilities.
• Training stakeholders from all levels on the new procedures to ensure process understanding and adherence.
• Ensuring compliance to procedures and policies by leading and conducting internal audits, supervise setting CAs, and ensure NCs closure.
• Ensured and maintained the food safety of Nestle product (imported & locally manufactured) through entire supply chain from port to retails by establishing procedures of best practice and ensuring their implementation.
• Developed and maintained a HACCP studies for all production lines and ensured the alignment with the factory Quality Monitoring Scheme (QMS).
• Managed & solved Food Safety related incidents in Nestle Co-Man factories and retails by conducting 5W analysis and taking effective CAPA.
• Audited Nestle Co-Man factories against GMP and ISO22000, laboratory against GLP, WHs against GWP & HSE requirements, took necessary CAPA, and ensure gap closure.
• Supervised the pest control programs in all of factories and the distribution centers to ensure eradication of any pest activities.
• Trained employees on Food Safety topics, GWP, GHP, and GLP.
- Part of my duties as country HSE champion,
• Conducted regular safety audits and risk assessments to identify potential hazards and risks in the workplace.
• Trained employees on safety, health, and environmental best practices.
• Ensured compliance with relevant safety, health, and environmental regulations and standards, such as OSHA and local regulations.
• Part-time consultant for 5 companies from various industries, helping them achieve ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001 certification.
• Established, implemented, and maintained management systems to meet certification standards and ensure compliance with relevant regulations.
• Trained customer employees and led internal & external audits.
• Played a key role in helping the companies achieve their certification goals and maintain their quality management systems.
• 6-month contract position where I established QMS documentation and quality control plans.
• Led audits, helped close findings, set up CAPA, and ensured NCs closure.
• Trained employees on quality systems, including GLP, 5S, and ISO 9001.
• Ensured processes were compliant with relevant regulations and standards.
• Developed HACCP studies and quality and food safety management procedures.
• Conducted chemistry, physical, microbial, & sensory analysis on FP & RM.
• Studied Finish Product stability during the entire shelf-life.
• Maintained quality control records database updated.
• Monitored CCPs, OPRPs, GMP, GWP, GHP control measures (cleaning, CIP, sanitation, hygienic zones) and ensured their conformance to req.
• Verified CCPs & OPRPs of production lines are under control.
• Implemented QC plan during the product realization from receiving RM to distributing finished products.
• Helped in decision making by collecting/analyzing data using excel.
• Maintained & continuously improved the food safety & QMS.
• Trained new labors on GMP, GHP, HACCP and food safety concepts.
• Verified, audited and applied all the GMP and all international standards for the concessionaire company and the requirements of the Syrian health authorities and all the standard procedures for Uni-pharma at all stages of production bases.