Experience

United National Breweries SA PTY LTD

• Human Resources Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• acting quality controller

  • May 2017 - Present

  • Yearly budget compilation for the laboratory department.• Good knowledge of all products being manufactured, including Sorghum Beer and Mageu.• Maintaining the analytical and microbiology laboratory and staff.• Establish and maintain a laboratory time management system.• Ensuring all cleaning processes is correct and effective. • Monitor the quality of incoming raw materials and packaging material to ensure that internal company standards are maintained. • Approve all products produced by the brewery in the most accurate manner and to communicate the results to the people concerned.• To manage the KPA’s of subordinates.• Ensure all laboratory equipment is calibrated internally and externally. • Undertaking strict control of finished goods at the dispatch area and only allowing dispatch of products after issuing an internal Certificate of Analysis (COA) indicating that products are within the appropriate parameters.• Investigate any non-conformances and report to relevant personnel.• Conducting internal safety and hygiene plant audits.• Compiling reports for returns from the market. Approving or disapproving credits given to customers based on complaints. • Responsible for the wastewater onsite plant, which includes maintaining effective treatment of the water before it is discharged to the municipal sewage line. Administration• Compilation of daily and monthly KPI reports.• Generating monthly timesheets. • Ordering of glassware and chemicals.• Liaising with suppliers of raw materials and laboratory items.• Immediate reporting of all out of specification analysis to the Production Manager.• To ensure that volume control on all products packed at the brewery is done and recorded. Show less

• lab technician

  • Aug 2013 - Present

  • Planning daily laboratory activities to ensure that all necessary tests are done as specified in the quality control manual. Testing of all raw materials timeously including grits, malt, yeast, maize meal, flour. Testing all brews produced by the brewery on a daily basis (beer, city jive, and Mageu). Shelf life analysis on brews produced by the brewery (beer, city jive, and Mageu). Water treatment analysis on mains water, boiler water, softener, condensate, cooling towers, and effluent. Testing of all detergent concentrations for CIP, crate and drum washers on an ongoing basis. All microbiological testing including yeast, manufactured products, lactic acid cultures, contact surfaces by taking swabs, equipment, packaging material, mains water, process water, cooling tower water. Tests to be performed include total bacteria count, lactobacillus count, wild yeast count, E. coli, yeast cell count, and fungal count. Testing of returned beer bases on quality complaints and reporting thereof. Conducting QC checks on all returned products. Conduct QC checks a minimum of three times a day including date codes, brew numbers, best before dates, density, carton, bottles, and drum checks. Calibration and maintenance of all laboratory equipment. Preparation of all chemicals used for product analysis and standardizing all chemicals as indicated in the quality manual. Stock takes of laboratory chemicals on a monthly basis. Organize coal samples for external testing. Housekeeping. To train new recruits.• Follow orders given by Senior Personnel. Administration:• Compilation of daily results into the business management system (QbCon).• Brewery inspections for housekeeping and hygiene.Immediate reporting of all out of specification analysis to the supervisor Show less



Clover SA pty ltd( Dairy Group)

• Laboratory Technician(Middle management)

  • Nov 2017 - Jun 2022

  • Conducting quality tests on raw milk, pH, anti-biotic testing, coagulation/sourness test, acidity test, Determination of freezing point, use of Milkoscan to determine Butterfat, protein, total solids, lactose. • Daily calibration and maintenance of laboratory equipment and recording for audit purposes. • Basic conducting of Good Laboratory Practices. • Compiling and releasing of COA (Certificate of Analysis) and Traceability record for the dispatch of milk to branches. • Reporting of any deviations encountered to management. • Troubleshooting on deviations and finding solutions. • Certification of CIP (Cleaning in progress) of all tankers and silos. • Taking swabs and testing effectiveness of CIP. • Conducting internal safety and hygiene plant audits. • Preparing and sending microbiology samples to central laboratory for testing. Show less



Pakco

• Verulam

• Quality Assurance Technician

  • Jan 2009 - Jun 2013