Food Hygienist
Joint Operations Wafra with Al Karam
Total des années d'expérience :15 years, 2 Mois
• Working as Assistant QHSE & Food Safety Manager
• Responsible for the implementation, monitoring and continual improvement of our Quality, Health, Safety, environment & Food Safety management systems across DAMAC Group as required, and maintaining accreditation through internal audits.
• Responsible for development and submission within timeline of HSE and food safety documents related pre-qualification, tender submission, regulatory affairs, third party and external audits
• Developing and maintaining documentation such as SOPs, QHSE& HACCP manuals, policies and procedures as they relate to any QHSE and food safety concerns.
• Implementing, leading, and validating the HACCP plan, Risk assessment plans.
• Performing food risk assessment of each process, developing operational prerequisite and critical control points that will be monitored to assure the production of safe and wholesome food products.
• Ensuring all food safety requirements are met by different divisions of the Group, in order to ensure full compliance with applicable local and legal regulations and customer and/or contract requirements.
• Acting as Food Safety Team Leader with certifying body. Participating in Group-wide HSE, Food Safety and Quality Committees and recommend corrective actions and continual improvement initiatives.
• Conducting quality & food safety audits as well as manage third party audits. Working with internal and external auditors to ensure objectives are achieved. Ensuring all audit observations are properly implemented and required results are attained for external audits.
• Working closely with the Operations Manager and/or General Manager on any food safety or quality assurance issues.
• Controlling the traceability, internal documentary management, availability of good manufacturing and control practices
• Managing GMPs in support of sanitation and personnel employee practices and procedures. Overseeing proper implementation, maintenance and sanitation of all facilities to comply with food safety requirements, including HACCP, RMP, GMP, facility design, hygienic zoning, cleaning/sanitation, pest control, etc
• Consulting food industries on Documentation of ISO 22000, BRC, HACCP, ISO 9001, 14000 &18000
• Auditing & Training as per ISO & Food Safety standards.
• Water treatment & Waste water treatment
• Different industrial registration & certification such as FSSAI, MFPOI, BIS, FPO, & ISO
• Documentation support required for Government body & Third party certifications.
• Laboratory setups, management of laboratory instruments & testing kits
• Development and implementation of quality management strategy and plans, including resource systems, timescales, financials to support, contribute to, and integrate within, the organization’s annual business plan and long term strategy.
• Development and maintain systems to establish standards relating to activities and food products, measure performance against established standards.
• Report as necessary on changes in standards (internally and externally initiated) and on performance against standards, Establish and implement necessary communication strategy for the improvement and awareness of quality issues across all departments.
• Liaison and co-operate with quality management and standards bodies (e.g. FSSAI, EIS, GPCB, BIS, Government Departments HSE, Pollution, FDA, Client Audits, BRC & other Export regulatory agencies).
• Develop and monitor the customer/ supplier complaint process
• Lead the effort of the best practices and facilitate the process of defining the practices according to the protocol.
• Manage departmental performance against agreed targets and budgets, and within policies and standards.
• Define product specifications & process parameters & system for the department.
• Conduct GMP, Sanitation & GHP, Pest control, GLP audits and internal audit & supplier audit.
• Develop budgets for the department.
• Capably served as Team Leader for QHSE, HACCP System & QMS (ISO 9001:2008) activities
• Working as internal auditor with ISO 9001: 2008 lead auditor certifications.
• Also working as Food safety specialist, Internal Auditor And Trainer and ensuring compliance to ISO 22000, BRC, HACCP, hygiene, sanitation and Microbiological testing
• Dexterously coordinated activities of Quality, Health, Environment at site as well as directed & supervised provision of adequate QHSE, Fire & Loss control programs
• Skillfully ensured execution of safe code of practices, accident prevention & environmental protection program
• Adeptly managed with location manager, client QHSE department & other key personnel as well as ensured adequate coverage for fire, accidents, environment pollution & other emergency situation
• Adroitly prepared site QHSE training programs, implemented & trained site personnel procedures for protection of personnel, equipment, material and environment
• Competently performed routine QHSE inspection, arranged reports with recommendation, corrective actions & target dates as well as followed up on close outs for housekeeping junior side including global staff
• Successfully administered staff attendance sheet & all vehicles reports coordinated with Assistant Managers
• Effectively concluded lead First Aider Training & AD EFST Training
• Team leader for food safety, health & environmental safety.
• Management of food safety & environmental safety as per iso ISO 9001:2008
• To ensure 100 % paper work updated & renewed as per BRC standard & ISO 22000.
• To manage & promote continual improvement of food safety program throughout all of the production & warehousing operations.
• Monitor compliance of food safety program through the internal auditing.
• Oversee management of corrective action through direct contact with functional managers to ensure actions are implemented in timely manner with an effective outcome.
• To conduct mock recall in annual basis & product recall whenever necessary.
• To ensure NCR for the compromised raw products & liaise with claim department.
• Handling of customer complaints & customer feedback.
• Trends & track of customer requirements, internal & external audits and reviews analysis for continual improvements.
• To ensure water & food lab tests (chemical & microbiological) done in acceptable raito.
• Ensure all staff medical test done & kept records as per Supreme medical checkup policy.
• To lead second party audits.
• Training all staffs for desired skills & competence and monitoring of competence matrix.
• Monitoring of cleaning, sanitation & hygiene throughout the plant & warehouses.
• Boitrace testing, shock chlorination & cleaning validation
• Internal audits for GMP, GHP, food safety, fire safety & glass.
• Calibration of all measuring equipments & process validation.
• Monitoring & verification QA activities on daily basis as per company policy and Food safety standards.
• Record Keeping and complete document review as per military standard & ISO 22000.
ACHIEVMENTS:
• Successfully completed lead auditor course of ISO 9001:2008 conducted by British Standard Group.
• Successfully reviewed HACCP, monitoring documents & used for measurement of continual improvements.
• Improves sanitation & cleaning throughout the plant & warehouses.
• Managed Food testing laboratory by conducting various microbial tests for Raw material, Packaging material finished product, water, ice and Swabs of food contact surfaces.
• Microbial monitoring of food manufacturing environment, shelf life analysis and Microbial validations such a water validation cleaning validation, cooking-pasteurization validation etc.
• Training of laboratory staff & Laboratory document keeping.
• Directed assurance & execution of GMP, GLP, SSOP (Quality Systems) as well as liaised with General Managers & Managing Directors for process performances
• Executed HACCP & BRC System as well as authenticated corresponding records
• Gained exhaustive exposure in preparation of labeling instructions w.r.t ingredients, nutrition facts & various legal compliances
• Skillfully carried out monthly HACCP meetings & reviewed HACCP System
• Accountable for carrying out internal audit, supplier audit & prepared specification of raw material & finished products
• Responsible for conducting of product recall, mock recall drill and traceability of product through-out the system.
• Customer satisfaction, Customer complaint and root cause analysis, NCR and claim handling
• Coordinated with EIA, MPEDA, MPCB in day-to-day working
• Underwent training on:
o HACCP System implementation carried out NSF - CMI Senior Auditor Manager
o Seafood HACCP, Theory & Practical applications as per US Regulation 21 CFR part 123 & 110 conducted From Marine Products Export Development Authority of India
o Internal Auditor carried out NSF-CMI Senior Auditor Manager
• Achieved:
o “BRC” A Grade Certification for 2 successive years
o “HALAL” Certification for Surimi based products for 2010
o “MSC CoC” (Marine Stewardship Council Chain of Custody) Certification first time in India
o MFPO Registration to make entry in domestic market
o Effectively achieved HACCP Compliance & GMP Compliance certificate for 2010
o Developed BRC (British Retail Consortium) & HACCP manual as per Issue 5
o Determined the root cause of the decreased Shelf life among all the process parameter & additives/ingredient.
o Maintaining Hygienic condition of plant and personal hygienic condition of workers.
