Quality Manager at Micronizing India LLP (2025-06 – Present)
- Procured high-quality raw materials by evaluating suppliers, reviewing specifications, and ensuring compliance with quality standards.
- Implemented continuous quality improvement initiatives to enhance the overall quality, safety, and consistency of finished products.
- Developed and maintained quality standards and specifications for raw materials, semi-finished goods, and finished products.
- Ensured product formulations were strictly followed to meet defined nutritional composition and label claims.
- Monitored and enforced strict hygiene and sanitation protocols throughout production to ensure product safety and regulatory compliance.
- Supervised extrusion and micronization processes, ensuring processing parameters such as temperature and time were maintained as per product requirements.
- Prepared and reviewed technical documentation including Certificates of Analysis (COA) and Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for all products.
- Designed and implemented testing schedules for raw materials, in-process materials, and finished products to ensure quality and compliance.
- Oversaw batching and mixing operations to ensure accurate formulation, consistency, and traceability of production batches.
- Prepared the organization for GMP, BIS, and ISO audits by developing documentation, SOPs, records, and compliance systems.
- Successfully cleared BIS audit for cattle feed sector as Authorized Person and Management Representative.
- Led ISO 9001 audit preparation as Management Representative and Quality Manager, ensuring full compliance with quality management system requirements.
- Maintained quality records, audit documentation, and compliance reports in accordance with regulatory and certification requirements.
Food Technologist/Project coordinator at Margdarshak Centre for Agribusiness Development (2022-01 – 2025-05)
- Total Quality Management
- Establishing Process Flow charts
- Machinery and Equipments suggestions to business owners
- Finding appropriate raw material and machinery vendors for the companies.
- New Product development. Product formulation, market analysis, SOP making, sensory evaluation
- Label designing. Providing label specifications, coordination with the designing team, and label verification before printing.
- Providing website content for designing company website. Coordination with website design team for changes, features and pictures approval till the new website is live.
- Coordination with external labs for product testing, Audits Quotation and process.
- Reviewing and approving nutritional data
- Writing product specifications, Making HACCP documents, FSMS documents, ISO 22000 documents
- FSMS audit preparation for companies including document preparations and training Quality Staff
- Conducting interviews to hire candidates for Quality Assurance, New product development and production.
- Conducting research on products, markets, and technology to improve existing brand/product offering
- Making Weekly Activity Report
- Making Monthly Progress Report
- Conducting weekly meetings with business owners
- Handling 5 to 10 different projects for Agriculture based manufacturing companies (Dehydrated food products, Sugar cane products, cold pressed oils, extruded food products, millet based products, Ice cream categories)
NPD & Quality Manager at Vinayak Foods Pvt. Ltd. (2018-07 – 2020-01)
- Formulating Recipes
- Drafting and updating NPD Documents
- Sourcing new raw material and ingredients for trials, finding vendors
- Conducting nutritional research as required
- Lab testing documenting
- Drafting and signing off on product specifications and documentation
- Conducting sensory evaluation and approving all the production batches
- Quality inspection of food production and documentation
- Inspecting hygiene of manufacturing area
- Making product batch code specification
- Labeling designing and details approval
- Preparing of ISO 22000 and HACCP Documents
- Conducting internal audits
- Visiting suppliers and conducting supplier audits
Quality Assurance Executive at Foodimentary Group "THE SPICE TAILOR" (2017-04 – 2017-12)
Promoted to NPD & Quality Assurance (Dec 2017 to June 2018)
- 100% Chemical Testing of every batch at head office & maintain micro result reports. Report Variance of chemical tests.
- Managing and procuring laboratory, equipments, chemicals
- 100% Sensory evaluation of every batch at head office.
- Preparing Sensory reports for senior management.
- Monthly sensory calibration with Anjum Anand (creator of "THE SPICE TAILOR" products & a celebrity Chef): Sample preparation, Dispatch of sensory batches to Anjum maam for approval.
- Making calibration sheet with scores and comments of panel members & comparison study report with Anjum maam's scores and comments.
- Review COA & letter of guarantee from Manufacturers.
- Making SOP's and Product codes for new products.
- Customer complaint record keeping, batch tracing, review CAPA from manufacturers.
- Entering Sensory data, Chemical data, Approving Purchase orders after the quality check into company created software "Athena".
- Making Pre-dispatch inspection report.
- Checking pre-dispatch batch code list provided by manufacturers.
- Keep the Sensory summary updated, Making Weekly Executive meeting summary & weekly customer complaint summary.
- Modify existing products and process and developing new ones.
- Ensuring stringent food safety standards.
- Making product specifications.
- Helping in keeping stock record & raw material procurement.
- Updating country wise recipes and formulations in system
- Making Blends as per recipes to send to Manufacturing units.
- Visits to Manufacturing units for batch trials
- Monthly Sensory Calibration.
- Developing new recipes for the launch of new range of products
- Maintaining recipe version record and updating in Athena.
Quality Officer at Global Gourmet Pvt. Ltd. (2015-10 – 2017-04)
- Managing In process QA
- Production Quality, Online daily record keeping, checking SOP formats, CCP regulation.
- Maintaining GMP, GLP, GHP and checking records
- Container Receiving, Pre-cooling, Dispatch Report.
- Checking Packaging material, raw material & finished Frozen Products as per Specifications.
- Making FG Specifications after product Trials and conformation by customer.
- Keeping Daily weight statistical data report of produced product.
- Making Customer complaint report, Certificate of analyses
- Conducting Root Cause Analysis
- Facing BRC, Customer (West bridge Thailand) Audits.
- Closing NC's
- Conducting Internal Infra Audits
- Conducting Traceability
Quality In-charge (Lab Technician) at Madhav Agro Foods Pvt. Ltd. [PASAND PICKLES] (2015 – 2015)
Training (Internship) - 5 Months
- Raw Material Quality checks on receiving of material
- Analysis and approval of samples (Raw & Finished)
- Packing material checking, checking labeling details
- Calibration of equipments
- Record Keeping & Documentation
- Conducting Trainings
- Maintaining Daily Analysis Record
- Approving Inward of material received
- Checking and Analysis of control sample for shelf life study
- Conducting Internal Audits
Food Health and Safety Auditor at Equinox Labs (2016-10 – 2017-10)
Freelance Work Experience
- Conducting Audit & making Audit report
- Making Documents and Presentations
- Completing given projects
