Sarita Tebello

Detail-oriented Quality Control Technician with 12 year of experience in ensuring product quality and compliance with industry standards. Proficient in conducting inspections, performing tests, and analysing data to identify areas for improvement. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement initiatives and maintain outmost customer satisfaction.

Demonstrated ability to maintain accurate documentation and communicate effectively with stakeholders. Seeking new opportunities to contribute to product excellence and enhance quality assurance processes.

Quality control technician - NBL Snack works

(2016)

• Audit by inspection the quality of finished processed and / or raw material by rejection and approving of product during and before production
• Ensure Hygiene and housekeeping is maintained.
• Ensure correct and safe use of cleaning chemicals in line with technical data sheets, including concentration, dwell time, and application methods.
• Provide food safety oversight during maintenance activities, including hygiene permits, risk assessments.
• Perform accurate plant analyses prior to a production run.
• Control of measuring and monitoring equipment – X-rays and metal detectors and all
• Assist with testing of raw and packaging materials daily and conducting the required physical and chemical analysis against specification
• Ensure internal audits are done as per the internal schedule
• Perform administrative duties.
• Maintain ISO standards
• Assisting with monthly Internal Audits
• Assisting with compiling internal audit reports, raising NCRs, and distributing to relevant role players
• Verify the COA against specification
• Work with multi-disciplinary teams to investigate issues raw materials and finished goods to resolve quality related issues

Food technology - Spice importers and millers

(2016 - 2016)

• Dispatching, Receiving and analysis of raw material
• Generating, conducting and verification of COAs to customer and ensuring product correspond to COA.
• Cleaning verification of premises, vehicles before dispatch
• Employees cleaning verification checks.
• Approval of product being produced and keeping samples
• Date code making and printing for products.

Quality Assistant - Kellogg SA

(2014 - 2015)

• Ensure NCRs are logged on the system and closed out
• Receiving, analysis and approving of raw material, conducting quality control measures in the laboratory and release components and raw material as per specification.
• Administration of sample analyses and sending samples to be tested.
• Doing sensory evaluation on product on a daily bases to ensure conformance and approving in-process production and finished product.
• Keeping laboratory equipment operational, by following the operational instructions; calling for repairs/replacement when needed.
• Pest control, sanitation verification and validation.
• Provide food safety oversight during maintenance activities, including hygiene permits, risk assessments.
• Monitor the GMP program in production and check CCP and HACCP on the production floor.
• Daily documentation control, raising non-conformances and assisting with corrective actions through expert knowledge, evaluate product in accordance to customer feedback and compile reports and respond to customer complaints.
• Generate customer COA, and COC
• Wright hand over report and reporting any food safety incidence every morning.
• Reconciliation and verification of hold product for nonconformances.
• Conduct age analysis of raw material, ingredients and finished food product to apply FIFO principles

Nation diploma - food technology - Tshwane University of Technology (2014)

Programme - production and operation management - University of South Africa (2018)

B com - production and supply chain management - University of South Africa (2024)