Experience

Enterprise Foods

• South Africa
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Operation Quality Analyst

  • Feb 2020 - Present

  • Ensure adherence to specifications (process, finished goods and packaging). Custodian of manufacturing/ process and finished product specifications. Drive sensory analysis. Ensure compliance to process/ packaging and product specifications through process and recipe audits. Management of retention samples and of shelf life. • Handling of marketplace feedback (consumer, customer, and incidents). Maintaining of marketplace feedback register. Lead investigation and develop lessons learnt. Ensure implementation of corrective and preventative action. Liaise with consumer services. • Handling of non-conformances. Manage non-conformance process. (register, product status decision making). Facilitate problem solving and root cause analysis. Ensure implementation of corrective and preventative action. (Root cause analysis; continual improvement activities to enhance the quality system, such as 5S, Kaizen lean methods.) • Drive continuous improvement. Analyze marketplace feedback and non-conformance data for trend to identify CI opportunities. Drive quality continuous improvement programs. • Enable quality management system. Ensure execution of HACCP. Conduct and participate in internal and external audit system. • Provide innovation support. Participate in factory trials. Drive quality gate keeping in innovation. •Drive and track quality KPI’s • Coordination and reporting of mock recalls. •Drive quality loss reduction projects • General. Develop and conduct trainings. Implement and manage HACCP. •Develop, implement, monitor, and review HACCP studies •Implement and manage allergen control program •Ensure compliance to pre-requisite program •Ensure compliance to micro requirements and standards •Implement and ensure compliance to hygiene standards •Develop and validate cleaning procedures Management of measurement and testing equipment and processes. •Manage incoming raw material and drive compliance to specification •Design and implement sampling plans Show less



Tiger Brands

• South Africa
• Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Laboratory Technician

  • Aug 2010 - Feb 2020

  • Control incoming materials (accept and reject). • Implement sampling plans and testing methods. Manage material retention and reference samples. • Media and reagents preparation according to procedures • Manage validation, calibration and verification of measurement and testing equipment. Ensure that only validated methods are used. • Handling of non-conforming materials. Identify non-conforming materials, Raise non-conformance, communicate to supplier and procurement and drive non-conformance closure. • Capturing micro, chemistry results and closing off all out of spec results. • Measurement and testing of in-process and finished products. Ensure adherence to sampling, handling and testing schedules. Interpret results (accept or reject). • Knowledge of food safety and GLP, HACCP requirements, GMP and SOPs. • Analyse test results of materials and trend data to identify continuous improvement opportunities. Verify measurement and testing equipment data fro trend to identify continuous opportunities. • Participate in/ or develop proficiency testing schemes. • Purchasing laboratory consumables. • Develop and conduct training Show less

• Quality Control Inspector

  • Aug 2009 - Aug 2010

  • Monitoring the temperature of food products including their environment. • Recording and monitoring CCPs. • Taking action when non-conformance is detected and making sure that the problem is solved. • Performing housekeeping checks to ensure that cleanliness of equipment before production commences. • Making sure that the HACCP system is followed and GMPs are followed properly • Recipe audits and audit factory hygiene. • Sampling for the laboratory analysis, taking swabs for the laboratory analysis. • Ensuring that the overall quality assurance is well managed. • Receive raw materials with specification and certificate of analysis. • Be part of customer complaints investigation Show less