Danish Rizwan

Food Science & Technology graduate (BS, CGPA 3.60/4.0) with hands-on quality assurance, hygiene and sanitation, chemical testing, and cold-chain monitoring experience across food manufacturing and logistics environments at Matco Foods and PepsiCo. Skilled in enforcing GMP, HACCP, ISO 22000, and food safety regulations and compliance, conducting hygiene inspections and audits, maintaining hygiene records, reports, and checklists, identifying nonconformances, and driving corrective and preventive actions (CAPA). Experienced in training staff on hygiene practices and food safety procedures and coordinating with management and external inspectors.

Seeking an entry-level role as a Quality & Hygiene Officer, or in Quality Assurance, Quality Control, or Production Operations within a high-standard FMCG, food, or dairy processing facility.

Quality Chemist - Matco Foods - Faisalabad, Pakistan

(2025-06 - 2026-07)

• Enforced food safety and hygiene compliance with raw material quality specifications through daily physical sampling and chemical testing in strict compliance with GMP guidelines and food safety regulations.
• Identified and logged quality and hygiene deviations (moisture content, raw material defects, infestation, mould), driving swift corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) to prevent plant contamination.
• Maintained structured hygiene and lab registers, control logbooks, and daily compliance reports/checklists to ensure continuous audit readiness for management review.
• Collaborated closely with plant production supervisors and management to communicate test results, resolve shift-level quality and hygiene issues, and maintain high production standards.

Cold Store Quality Assurance Intern - PepsiCo - Depalpur, Pakistan

(2025-01 - 2025-03)

• Monitored and documented storage temperature conditions across cold-chain warehouse facilities, ensuring product integrity from receipt to dispatch.
• Conducted routine facility hygiene inspections and audits and raw/finished product inspections, identifying thermal, hygiene, and packaging non-conformances to minimize waste.
• Partnered with supply chain and warehouse operations teams to investigate storage deviations and implement immediate Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA).

Bachelor of Science - Food Science & Technology - University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (UAF) (2022 - 2026)