Food Safety & Regulatory Compliance Specialist
Qatar Petroleum
Total years of experience :20 years, 1 Months
Holding managerial responsibility with MIC industrial city under the scope of health control across industrial facilities, community, and commercial zone with judiciary enforcement. Scope to ensure public health, hygiene & environmental sustainability.
Plan and execute food safety, health, hygiene, and environmental risk assessment for the compliance monitoring of about 310 stakeholders in the city. Validation, and verification of their HSSEQ processes.
Prepare risk-based inspection procedures of facilities including industrial catering, central production units, mess halls, camps, restaurants, cafeterias, schools, clinics, clubs, supermarket, groceries, recreation centers, goods transport, and other public facilities.
Handle communicable and non-communicable diseases including outbreaks related to food & water
Perform QHSE compliance reporting, corrective and preventive action management.
Enforcement & judicial actions against shops or workers to the provisions of State’s legislation
Collaborate with Ministry of Municipality and Environment, Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Ministry of Public Health and Central Food & Water Lab
Control and observe food and water circulation within the city, perform risk-based sampling programs
Manage approvals/technical review on operational permits, commercial license & design verifications.
Technical control over PR, budget, equipment, utensils, and maintenance.
Lead and coordinate public awareness programs on food Safety, health, hygiene & EM.
Undertake necessary studies required for crisis management, system development, generating procedures, guidelines, SOPs and performance scales.
GICC is the pioneer of the Ice Cream business in the Gulf, the World’s largest franchisee for Baskin-Robbins ®, Dunkin Brands. Managed 520+ stores and multiple warehouses facilities across the region
Key Deliverables
•Establish and optimize QSR quality, Restaurant Food Safety Standards (RFSS), Imminent Health Risk (IHR) audits and Restaurant operation review (ROR).
•Develop hazard and risk management program including environmental compliance monitoring for about 580 outlets and 04 warehouses
•Reduce GHG impacts and improving ecosystems including CPU sanitary design execution.
•Contact point for International QA team from Dunkin brand, USA. Responsible to Coordinate & deliver DBI principles to the franchisee site. Contact point for all ME regulatory affairs with import/export/regional requirements, supplier approval management etc.
•Maintain own warehouse & 3PL’s standards with food safety & security system
•Strong focus on operation & product traceability on real scenario
•Liaising & coordinating with external services (Chemical & Micro Tests, Chemical supply, Pest Control, Calibration, Cleaning services & Waste Management)
•Product troubleshooting, handle vendor audits, customer feed backs & any product non-conformances
•Lead and calibrating QA & KTP teams across GCC region
Lead Auditor (QMS, EMS, OHSAS, FSMS & HACCP\] Aug’11 - Sept’ 13
TUV MIDDLE EAST, UAE (Subsidiary of TUV Nord, Germany)
TÜV Middle East has been serving Gulf region for more than 25 years. It is a leading competence center for inspection, training, certification, auditing, HSE advisory and testing in the Arab Peninsula.
Key Deliverables
•Conduct third party audits for certification, surveillance, and recertification with DAC (UAE) and DAkks (Germany) accreditation.
•Auditor for HACCP CAC, ISO 9001 (Quality Management System), ISO 14001 (Environmental Management\] ISO 22000 (Food Safety Management System) and OHSAS: 18001 (Health & Safety)
•Strong focus on second party audits with food safety, environment, and hygiene requirements
•Review & scrutiny auditor’s files for verification and DAC compliance
•Ensure efficient audit planning, document review, site audit, executing, reporting the findings, following up corrective action and closing the audit
•Worked with different industries for establishing, managing and monitoring standards, processes, communications, training and systems to update and generate operational and project specific Environmental Aspects and Impact reports and Risk Assessment Register
•Conduct In-house & public trainings on food safety and international standards.
•Conduct presentations & seminars on Food Standards/Processing/Legal Requirements for the TUV auditor’s around GCC sectors
AlMatrood is one of the leading groups in KSA operating since 1965. Business includes first and the largest bakery, food powders, dairy products, water and juice factories in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Key Deliverables
•Compliance of plant, process, and products with statutory and legal requirements.
•Product development & process optimization. Implement cost effective plans
•Oversaw that suppliers, vendors and shops related to HACCP & ISO standards.
•Participated in developing ‘Workplace energy conservation tools” to encourage sustainable practices
•Routine and ad-hoc sampling, inspections and audits.
•Design and update SOPs, SSOPs for plant QA operations for continual improvement.
Britannia is a leading food co. in India with over 90 Billion in revenue, delivering 5 categories through 4.2 million retail outlets to more than half the Indian population.
– Food & Health Safety, Distinction,
