Senior Quality Assurance Specialist
AL AIN FARMS FOR LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :13 years, 0 أشهر
• To lead the Quality team in Quality assurance/Quality control & Team Management responsibilities.
• Scheduling, mentoring & managing team of 30 members.
• Act as Expert advisor & technically guide to follow / adhere Quality Assurance, Food Safety, and Regulatory Compliance across the business
• Ensure Integrated Management System (IMS) certifications are maintained and developed
• Implement, follow up and improve company quality and food safety policies/system
• Help, generate and distribute quality reports in a timely and accurate manner.
• Daily monitoring of production facility & premises for compliance against QHSE requirements.
• Build SOP for all processes in liaison with Food safety Team.
• Increasing awareness amongst employees about QHSE through counselling, onsite training, Posters, instructions etc.
• Ensuring Product conformance to specifications requirements (Legal, Standard & Customer requirements).
• Notification of product quality and safety issues; identifying business risks and effective communication of issues.
• Training and mentoring to assure all associates are fully capable of achieving Quality & Food Safety expectations.
• Verification of effectiveness of Cleaning & sanitation programs.
• Legal & Statutory Affairs - Liaise with Food Control authorities/municipalities to solve customer / consumer complaints, legality issues, food safety related issues and ensure we continually meet all legal requirements.
• Manage preventative pest control contracts in line with QSHE standards.
• Ensure laboratory operation is effective in ensuring compliance of all raw materials, packaging and finished goods to regulatory requirements, quality standards and customer specifications.
• Responsible for overall quality control of wide range of products.
Dairy: Pasteurized Milk, Flavoured milk, Yoghurt, fruit yoghurt, Laban (plain & Flavoured), UHT milk, Camel Milk, Chami cheese
Juices & Nectars: Fresh juices, fruit drinks & nectars
• Incoming inspection of the wide range of food products.
• Verification of storage condition of products
• To follow-up pest control activities on periodic basis.
• To develop update & maintain HACCP plan with a scope of Food Storage & distribution (Frozen, Chilled & dry)
• To follow-up customer complaints, find root cause & take necessary corrective/preventive actions.
• To ensure that the expired food products are properly segregated, labelled & disposed.
• To ensure proper segregation, reporting & labelling of Non-conforming products.
• Training of employees for personal hygiene, occupational safety, good warehousing practices
• To conduct periodic internal audits.
• Follow-up cleaning activities with hygiene supervisor to ensure clean, hygienic & safe environment.
• To follow-up with purchase department for the claim of non-conforming products.
• To verify temperature & hygiene condition of delivery vehicles.
• To verify the condition & quality of Sales returned products.
• To ensure the calibration of all measuring devices is done as per schedule.
• To identify potential food safety/defense threats & take action accordingly
a) Product Safety & quality Management:
• HACCP Coordinator & member of Food Safety Team. A contact person in factory for prerequisite Plan, implement and review.
• Ensure that all process control parameters are within range & follow up corrections & corrective actions in case of deviations.
• To verify the results of all the physiochemical, microbiological & sensory analysis done by In-Line quality controllers.
• Developing updating & implementing HACCP plan for all products
• Verification of CCP, OPRP & CQP (Critical Quality Point)
• Develop all SOP as per quality prerequisite standard.
• Internal audit of production FSMS, reporting & follow-up for effective corrective & preventive actions.
• Training of employees for Quality, food safety & occupational safety on periodic basis.
• Enforce Food Safety Standards
• Increasing awareness amongst employees about Quality, Food Safety & health safety through counselling, onsite training, Posters, instructions etc.
• Handling certification/Surveillance/Customer audits with quality manager
• Risk assessment of site, equipment & process to identify occupational safety hazards & control it.
b) New Product Development, packaging materials design & Process Stabilization
• Conducting new product lab/line trials, evaluation of samples & reporting.
• Carryout line stabilisation for new products in liaison with R & D, project Manager.
• Ensuring all product changeovers smoothly.
• Conducting Raw material trials & evaluations in lab/line trials.
• Verify the packaging materials print proof from packaging supplier prior to print for legal requirements & design.
• Determine the labelling requirements for new products and update for existing products in case of any change.
c) Hygiene, pest Control & Environment Control
• Weekly hygiene & food safety audits of all lines, reporting & follow-up for effective corrective & preventive actions.
• Coordinate with Sanitation technician on PRPs, Hygiene, pest control & housekeeping.
• Verification of cleaning, sanitation & pest control effectiveness.
• Analysis and recording of raw material, packaging material, finished product for chemical and microbiological parameters.
• To check washing stations and CIP on daily basis.
• Employee training for food safety and personal hygiene.
• Verification of personal hygiene of employees, plant hygiene and verification of GMP.
• To manage pest control service along with pest control team.
• Co-ordinate with various departments in taking corrective actions against 3rd party audits.
• To verify all the GMP, personal hygiene of employees
• Panel checking of finished product along with panelists.
Project: “Studies on- Replacement of egg solids with Whey Protein Concentrate and optimization of its level in cake making”
