Quality Controller Manager - The Flavour Lab - Lanseria, South Africa
(2022-12)
- Develops, implements, manages and tracks effectiveness of an integrated program, including systems, standards, procedures, measures and tools to assure that food safety, quality, sanitation and regulatory requirements are met for food products and operations
- Develops and delivers effective communications that provide partners at all levels with appropriate awareness and knowledge of quality assurance standards, program updates and process changes
- Lead the Food Safety and HACCP team at respective site
- Establish and define quality assurance standards for the site including manufacturing, sanitation, pest control, and disposition of ingredients or finished product
- Manage and review the food safety documentation on annual basis
- Represents quality assurance on enterprise wide cross-functional teams
- Establish monitors and maintains a quality assurance and quality control system
- Conduct statistical analyses of food safety and quality data to assess compliance with related programs and determine where improvement is needed
- Works to develop and coach Quality Assurance staff through proper coaching and training
- Manage the internal audit programme
- Manage the online QC and quality department
- Manage the Lab testing and the trending of the results
- Ensure that sensory analysis is conducted
- Manage the housekeeping and PPE and cleaning service providers
- Enforce quality practices throughout all the department
Senior Laboratory Technician - Royal Canin - Randburg, South Africa
(2017-04 - 2021-03)
- Perform equipment maintenance and calibration
- The analysis of BHA/BHT using gas chromatography (GC)
- Analyse samples from various sources to identify compounds and or elements and quantities of compounds present and record results
- Following and ensuring strict safety procedures and safety checks
- Validating results and filling out any associated forms including nonconformance forms
- Perform inventory maintenance for analysis
- Control stock
- Truck receptions
- Sapphire management (move from twice weekly to daily)
- Grinding into the correct sieve size in preparation for to analysis (daily)
- Moisture analysis for RM & FP (daily) PV, FFA and Aw analysis for monitoring samples
Food Technologist - RCL Foods - Kempton Park, South Africa
(2015-07 - 2016-02)
- Responsible for the entire Cake department
- Conduct scheduled mock recalls
- Monitoring and controlling the Quality Controllers and their respective duties
- Train, coach and mentor all staff on quality awareness, personal and factory hygiene, foreign object exclusion, allergen exclusion, glass breakage, CCP points, cleaning practices mock recalls etc.
- Manage the customer complaints and resolving of NCRS
- Conduct the internal audit and assist with external audit
- Manage the cleaning, pest control and service providers
- Ensure that all manufacturing and processing standards are up to date and issued/displayed
- Investigate any issues pertaining to assigned lines
- Take part in daily taste panels and address any issues pertaining to their lines
- Conduct audits according to the internal audit schedule that covers the factory's ISO 22000 PRP'S, SOP'S and Woolworths Code of Practice
- Ensure that time and temperature parameters within the process flow are upheld to maintain the customer's
Bakery Supervisor - Premier Foods - Vereeniging, South Africa
(2014-06 - 2015-06)
- Making sure the quality is 100% by interacting with the production team if the Sample is out, alerting them to fix the problem because it would affect the quality of the product
- Prepare COAs and COCs of products to be delivered to our customers
- Updating all the quality results on to the introspect system
- Investigating customer complaints and suggesting corrective action and responding to complaints
- Communicating with the clients in case there is a query
Laboratory Technician - Premier Foods - Vereeniging & Pretoria, South Africa
(2009-04 - 2015-06)
- Performing different analysis: Alveograph, Farinograph, Colour Analysis, NIR, Ash Analysis, Mixograph, Falling Number analysis and calibration of the machines
- Making sure that the samples during production are in spec that is they comply with the existing targeted specification
- Making sure the quality is 100% by interacting with the production team if the Sample is out, alerting them to fix the problem because it would affect the quality of the product
- Making sure that the Samples are analysed correctly and no mistakes are made
- Always making sure that there is food safety by discussing everything with the Lab team and production team during Invocom meetings
- Compilation of COA's for different products
- Reports non-conformances to the Quality Co-coordinator Supervisor
- Preparation of chemical samples, microbiological analysis (taking swabs), maintenance
Quality Assurance Officer - RCL Foods - Kempton Park, South Africa
(2007-12 - 2008-12)
- Responsible for the entire Cake department
- Conduct scheduled mock recalls
- Monitoring and controlling the Quality Controllers and their respective duties
- Train, coach and mentor all staff on quality awareness, personal and factory hygiene, foreign object exclusion, allergen exclusion, glass breakage, CCP points, cleaning practices mock recalls etc.
- Manage the customer complaints and resolving of NCRS
- Conduct the internal audit and assist with external audit
- Manage the cleaning, pest control and service providers
- Ensure that all manufacturing and processing standards are up to date and issued/displayed
- Investigate any issues pertaining to assigned lines
- Take part in daily taste panels and address any issues pertaining to their lines
- Conduct audits according to the internal audit schedule that covers the factory's ISO 22000 PRP'S, SOP'S and Woolworths Code of Practice
- Ensure that time and temperature parameters within the process flow are upheld to maintain the customer's
