Quality Assurance Food Safety
Resume:
ZIA MUHAMMAD
Lahore Pakistan
******@*****.***
Profile
I am an ambitious and motivated individual, who is organized and disciplined. I am a diligent hard-worker with a keen eye for detail and am a possessor of excellent interpersonal skills that foster effective teamwork and successful relations with clients as well as with my colleagues. My areas of strength lie in strategic thinking and problem solving which are inherent from an enforcement background where decisions have to be made on the spot. I am flexible, adaptable and very demanding of myself and always maintain standards of the highest caliber.
Languages: English, Urdu, and Punjabi.
Career Summary
METRO-HABIB CASH & CARRY PAKISTAN
Metro-Habib cash & carry is the largest cash & carry business of the Pakistan. It started business in 2007. It is directly monitored my Metro Ag Group from Germany having sub offices at Singapore to monitor operation of Asia. Metro-Habib has 9 whole sale stores in Pakistan with 100 Million (Average) daily sales.
Department Manager Food
October 2013 to present
Key responsibilities:
Implementation of PSPSPP SOP
Team management
Customer guidance to improve sales
Temperature monitoring and management for fresh & frozen cold rooms, displays, and freezers
Executing partial and annual inventories
Personal hygiene implementation and management
Pest control management
Food Safety system implementation
Focus to avoid Cross-Contamination
Compliance management for regulatory, Company and moral rules
Implementation of good manufacturing practices
Focus on fresh and frozen products receiving’s keeping in view their temperature requirements, hygiene and vehicle condition
Waste management and its timely removal & disposal
METRO-HABIB CASH & CARRY PAKISTAN
Quality Assurance Specialist – Supplier Development
August 2012 to October 2013
Key responsibilities of the job are:
Conduct food supplier audits (including fresh, chilled, frozen and dry foods), based upon HACCP, FSSC-22000 and IFS, and take initiatives for their development
Develop requirement profiles and product passport (with supplier) for own brands & plan products yearly monitoring program
Verify the OB product labelling according to local regulations.
Investigate the customer quality complaints or quality incidents related fresh, chilled, frozen and dry foodsproducts together with relevant category QA Specialists to define corrective and preventive action applicable for own brand products and suppliers including bakery products
Measure the effective product launching regarding the quality cost and effort spending, such as measure total quality expenses related to OB development vs. sales turnover
HACCP implementation at food suppliers facility by providing them training covering,
FSSC-22000 HACCP implementation at food suppliers facility by providing them training, guidance, and conduction audits
METRO-HABIB CASH & CARRY PAKISTAN
Quality Assurance Specialist – Store Operations
November 2009 to August 2012
Key responsibilities of this job are:
Monitoring process and product controls
Implementation of standard specifications and legal labelling requirements and monitoring them regularly
Checking quality standard of fresh food, dry food and non-food on daily basis and guiding store team for SOP implementation
Surprise quality standards assessment of fresh fooddepartments
CUPOLAPAKISTAN LTD (KFC Bakery) Lahore
Technical Support Executive
November 2007 to November 2009
Key responsibilities of the job are:
Managing the production of all bakery products
Developing solid plans to economize labor, utilities & expenses
Managing food cost of all products to ensure profitable production
Quality assurance of each product through all steps
Quality control of all raw material and final products
Maintaining the standard procedures and processes of production
Research and development of new recipes of different products
Developing frequent & periodic feedback systems from market on overall bakery products quality & operational services
Establishing technical training workshops for bakery workers forpolishing their skills & job knowledge
Physical and chemical analysis of raw material and final products
Petty cash management
Payroll management
National Internee in Baking, Fruits & vegetables preservation Section University of agriculture Faisalabad
Key responsibilities of the job are:
Research & development of cheddar and Mozzarella cheese
Preservation of different fruits & vegetables
Searching out new methods of preservation
Developing new recipes of bakery products
Qualification Training
University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan
M.Sc. (Hons.) Food Sciences & Technology, 81% marks, Year-2007
Successfully completed the following professional trainings
Food Safety Level-2 from Charted Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) UK
From Pulseberry Health Consulting UK
Food Safety Level-3 from Charted Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) UK
From Pulseberry Health Consulting
Person In-charge Level-3 from Charted Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) UK
From Pulseberry Health Consulting
Food Safety for Catering Level-4 (Merit) from Charted Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) UK
From Pulseberry Health Consulting
Food Safety for Manufacturing Level-4 (Distinction) from Charted Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) UK
From Pulseberry Health Consulting
Food Safety System Certification (FSSC) 22000:2011
From Bureau VERITAS Certification Pakistan
HACCP & HACCP Plans
From United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Hygiene: Good Manufacturing Practices & Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures
From United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Lean Production through kaizen 5S
From National Productivity Organization Pakistan in collaboration with Asian Productivity Organization Japan
Baking with soy
From US Soybean Export Council
HACCP awareness & Internal Food safety Auditing Techniques
From BUREAU VERITAS Certifications
Interests
My passion lies with research & development. I remain involved in gaining more and more knowledge about food science related subjects, new developments in different fields by reading books, journals, exploring internet, and attending seminars.
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