Experience

Lactalis South Africa

• South Africa
• Dairy Product Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Laboratory Analyst

  • Sep 2019 - Present

  • Validation of Cleaning in place and COP in production areas. • Monitoring the effectiveness of cleaning chemicals • Testing the microbiological and chemicals quality of CIP rinse water • Improving the CIP lines, structure. • Take hand swabs in production to verify hygiene • Conducting accurate analytical tests on samples, according to working instructions • Setting up, calibrating, maintaining and cleaning of laboratory equipment • Recording test results accurately • Analysing results to ensure consistency to specification • Do reference testing for NIR and IR equipment in Lab • Work according to and promote Food safety, continues improvement and NOSA standard • Properly handover to another shift



Rhodes Food Group

• South Africa
• Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Quality Control Supervisor

  • Sep 2018 - Aug 2019

  • Ensuring compliance of suppliers and raising suppliers non-conformances. • Checking raw materials at intake, follow, create COA’s and request COA’s. • Product and raw material traceability, mock recall • Investigate customer complaints and give customer feedback • Managing and supervising end of shift and during the shift, housekeeping during the shift. • Coordinating daily QC sampling and testing • Factory hygiene swabbing, trending, communicating swabbing results to all departments. • Handling customer complaints: Investigate feedback corrective action and trending. • Tracking compliance and reporting on product waste for incoming and raw material, in process and finished products raising NCRs where necessary. • Allergen management from receiving, processes and dispatch • Quality control duties: online product checks, equipment verification (Scale and thermometer) and communicating with services provider for repairs and schedule calibrating, ensuring completion of quality and production documentation and filing. • Responding in a timely manner to service issues and requests • Training QC’s staff on food safety, GMP, OPRPs and quality procedures • Daily quality reports • Proper handover to another shift • Internal audits



in2food

• South Africa
• Food & Beverages
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Production Assistant

  • Jun 2015 - Jul 2016

  • Daily QC-Out Process: Update, capture data and records, communicate or report findings and deviation to QC coordinator and team timeously. • Online quality control in process and communication: Conduct QC-in test or analysis for incoming raw material according to procedure and parameters. • Shelf life samples: Complete daily shelf life sample procedure accordingly and timeously (traceability). Conduct shelf life sensory evaluation accordingly and timeously. • Rejects: Follow rejects procedure and reports or communicate to staff and team timeously according to material specification and deviation. • Basic auditing, document control: Assist in insuring all factory certification requirements and related processes and responsibilities are in place. Executing internal audit process and help to review and update procedure to relevant internal requirement. • Other QC tasks: Operation and calibration of lab scale. Housekeeping, pH meter calibration and determination, Microbiological sampling, internal calibration of moisture analyser, defect index case inspection, pallet inspection and first sachet inspection and sampling, Non-conformance report, conduct lab batches for alternative supplier and shelf life extension of product. • Hygiene: Conduct daily and weekly hygiene audits and capture data on tempo and communicate results and deviation.