Quality Assurance and Food Safety Team Leader
PepsiCo
Total years of experience :8 years, 8 Months
Promoted to design, implement, and maintain food safety and quality management systems, policies, and procedures in compliance with local regulations, international standards, and industry best practices.
• Developed a comprehensive food safety management system from scratch, adopting the requirements of FSSC22000, and American Institute for backing international standards (AIBI).
• Assembled and trained a multi-disciplinary food safety team, who effectively put a hazard plan that determined hazards, critical control points (CCPs), critical limits, and developed control measures, monitoring procedures and corrective actions.
• Have passed five international audits (FSSC 22000 / ISO 22000, AIBI, and PEPSICO) and two local audits by local regulators.
• Enhanced the food safety culture by 30% through the effective communications, by providing recognitions and rewards, and seeking management support.
Recruited to assist the quality manager to perform regular audits and inspections to ensure compliance with hygiene and food safety standards, maintain accurate and up-to-date records of food safety activities, including inspection reports, audit findings, training records, and corrective actions.
• Improved the processes of pest control, temperature, sanitation and hygiene monitoring through the regular inspection, and encouraging employees for the continuous improvement.
• Developed a robust cleaning and sanitation program by assessing the risks, establishing comprehensive standard operating procedures (SOPs) for cleaning and sanitation, creating appropriate cleaning schedules, training staff, monitoring and improving performance.
• Chosen to liaise with the external regulatory bodies and supplier. Coordinated with suppliers for audits and performance. Communicated with the external regulatory bodies to ensure that local laws and regulations are followed.
• Conducted many investigations to identify the root cause during the events of food safety related customer complaints, and regulatory inspections. Ensured implementation of timely corrective and preventive actions.
Awarded a graduate teaching assistant to support faculty members in various academic tasks, such as preparing course materials, conducting research, organizing class activities, training students in conducting some experiments.
• Participated in two conferences. Presented my researches in the “UAE Graduate Students Research Conference” and the “International Conference on Computer, Automation, Engineering and Technology”.
• Published two papers from my researches. Wrote “The Effect of the Membrane Thickness on the Performance of Direct Methanol Fuel Cell: Factorial Design” and “Recent developments in pressure retarded osmosis for desalination and power generation”.
• Participated in two competitions. Instructed high school students in experimental preparation for two competitions: "Think Science" in UAE and "INTEL ISEF" in US.
Recruited to calibrate instruments in accordance with the requirements of ISO 17025 and ISO 9001 standards.
Master degree in chemical engineering Thesis title:Effects of Operating Conditions on Water Absorption Capacity of Superabsorbent Hydrogel.
Graduation project:mining of Gold
