Food Safety Auditor
SMLC PepsiCo
Total years of experience :16 years, 9 Months
-CSD, NCB & Bottled Water
•Responsible on implementation and maintaining Food Safety Management Systems “HACCP, ISO 22002, AIBI (American Institute Of Baking International)”.
•Conduct daily, weekly and monthly Auditing & Inspections of all premises, facilities, warehouses and production zones to ensure that hygienic requirements are followed.
•Perform special trainings concerning food safety requirements and cleaning procedures for regular and daily employees.
•Instructor of visitors coming from all universities & schools in Lebanon, taking them to a complete tour in the factory.
Instructor of trainees (AUB American University of Beirut, USJ Saint Joseph University UL Lebanese University and others) concerning food safety management systems and hygiene conditions (GMP’s, GHP’s, personal hygiene...) helping them to clarify hygiene and food safety requirements and to fulfill their required projects.
•Responsible on Pest Control Program implementation, assessment, integrity and follow up.
•Training of new staffs and man power, to perform adequate cleaning for equipment, infrastructure & adequate pest controlling for the entire facility.
•Consultant of Food Safety issues, or any risk might occur, creation of solutions if the plant encountered any food safety hazard.
•Risk management & Hazard Analysis.
•Instructor of trainings concerning food safety management systems performed for USJ students “Faculties of sciences & pharmacy”. (July 2015).
•Observation of installing new PET production line “Krones”, (2015).
•Creation and Preparation of Food Safety, GMP’s, GHP’s, Auditing, & Cleaning Procedures training (April 2015).
•Instructor of training performed for Lebanese university students “Faculty of agriculture” concerning Food Safety Management systems (May 2015).
•Instructor of training performed for AUST graphic design students concerning blowing of PET bottles (May 2015).
•Instructor of training performed for AUB Food Technology students concerning food Safety (April 2015).
•Instructor of trainings concerning Food Safety Management Systems performed to Bottled Water Quality Supervisor (February-March 2015).
•CIP (Cleaning In Place) System Expertise.
•Water Treatment System expertizes (Reverse Osmosis for treated water & Microfiltration for bottled water).
•Member of HACCP team.
•Member of ISO 22000 team.
•Member of AIBI Food Safety System team \{American Institute for Baking International\}.
•Platforms: Cold, Ambient & Hot Fill Flash & Tunnel Pasteurization, Aseptic Fill, Post Mix, Premix, and Bag in Box.
•Products: Carbonated Soft Drinks, Bottled Water, Energy Drinks, Juices, Non-Carbonated Beverages, Fruit Inclusions, Teas.
•Brands: Pepsi, 7Up, Mirinda, Mountain Dew, H2Oh!, Aquafina, AMP, Tropicana, Lipton Ice Tea.
Aug 2007- SMLC Pepsi, Lebanon
Jan 2015 Quality Assurance- CSD & NCB
•Food Safety Mission in Pepsi Basra plant “Iraq”, Assessment*Detection*Corrective Action*Verification*Validation*Monitoring (September-October 2014).
•Instructor of trainings concerning Quality applications & testing procedures performed for Iraqi quality staffs (May 2014).
•Instructor of trainings about Food Safety and GMP’s performed to SMLC’s operators and batchers (March 2014).
•Instructor of trainings concerning quality management systems performed for Iraqi quality Manager (2013).
•Observation of installing new PET production line “SIDEL” (2011).
•Observation of installing new mixing systems for canning and bottling lines “KRONES” (2010).
•Creation and Implementation of Handling Methods policies of raw packaging materials (PET and glass bottles / cans/ can lids/ closures) throughout the food chain process (2010).
•Creation and Implementation of gloves policy (2010).
•Implementation of Plant Cleaning Program of all equipment and infrastructures related to production process (2010-2012).
•Creator of Glass Returnable Bottles Sorting Procedures to reach our aim \{Food Safety\} (2010).
•Integrated Pest Control Management “Problems*Reasons*Suggested Solutions” (2010-2014).
•Perform all required physio-Chemical tests to ensure that products are in perfect quality.
•Control all parameters that build up quality of products.
•Control of CIP (Cleaning in Place) to ensure hygienic requirements of Food contact surfaces.
•Trials of new primary packaging (Closures / PET preforms / cans…).
•Testing of CO2 purity upon receipt.
•Auditing & Inspection in all facilities (production zones and warehouses).
•Calibration and maintenance of laboratory equipment.
•Instructor of trainees about quality management systems and food safety management systems.
Food Safety law according to LFSA (Lebanese Food Safety Association). TQM (Total Quality Management). ISO 9001 / ISO 22001 / HACCP. WTO (World Trade Organization) Agreements on Sanitary & Phyto-Sanitary measures and on Technical Barriers to Trade.
Till Jun 2003 Al Maanieh school, Lebanon Life sciences.