Laboratory in Charge
FIP Almarai
Total years of experience :10 years, 3 Months
Achievements and responsibilities:
• Overall in charge for chemical and microbiological lab operations.
• Manage diverse personalities of lab personnel through proper training
• Responsible for procedure review and training with all lab personnel
• Complete monitoring, record keeping, and reporting for all product quality testing
• See that all testing is performed within compliance procedures
• Maintain certification and maintenance of all lab equipment
• Assist in developing and updating laboratory procedures
• Ensure that all laboratory procedures are followed
• Prepare and monitor laboratory budget
• Purchase laboratory consumables, tools and equipment's.
Achievements and responsibilities:
• Plan manufacturing operation based on allocation by sales team.
• Recognize and resolve production and quality issues through corrective action plans.
• Coach and counsel employees towards improved performance.
• Assure compliance with food safety and quality requirements.
• Conduct weekly and monthly inventory for Raw and packaging material to analyze wastage.
• Maintain weekly and monthly KPI.
• Reduce packaging materials wastage. i.e. Cups, Pails, lids, foils, multi cartoon etc.
• Monitor the aging of product and culture in buffer tanks,
• Involved in new equipment instalment, commissioning and validation.
• Communicate and support to research and development for new process/product development.
• Monitor the filling parameters i.e. Date code, weight, Filling temperature. Incubation time, Ph. etc. for cultured products.
• Conduct daily hygiene audit for production flour and employees.
• Handle customer’s complaints by reviewing the process and traceability.
• Arrange on job training for employees on hygiene, materials handling, PPE.s. Changeover etc.
• Produce products meeting quality standards and specifications and reduce reworks by corrective action.
• Arrange and monitor employee breaks and Machine CIP time to minimize downtime to increase productivity.
• Review shift wise machines capacity utilization and time efficiency through online cute system.
• Raise non-conformance for raw and packaging material defects for corrective action.
• Ensure the work safety at production floor and highlight the risks.
• Monitor the development of all products manufactured by the company.
• Determine the quality of a product.
• Verify the quality of a product with the help of quality tests.
• Monitors every process involved in the production of a product.
• Ensure the product of a company meets quality standards.
• Maintain the checklist of inspection processes.
• Responsible to identify the problems and issues regarding quality of the products.
• Make analysis records and previous documentation of a product for future reference.
• Supervised the cleaning and maintenance of machinery used in food processing.
• Handle the customer complaints and raise the non-conformance.
B.Sc. Hons. Agriculture (Food Science and Technology)