Safety Officer Assurance Technician
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HEMPSTONE OMONDI
Nationality: Kenyan
Languages: English, Swahili
Phone: +254*********
E-mail: ***************@*****.***
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PROFILE
Reliable and highly trained Quality Assurance Technician with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry. Positive minded leader with exceptional people skills, quality control and careful analysis skills, attention to detail, and a quick learner passionate for quality, safety and customer satisfaction. EDUCATION BACKGROUND
2011-2015: Egerton University
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Physics
Second Class (Upper Division)
2006-2009: Mbita High School
K.C.S.E. Certificate
Mean Grade- B+
KEY RESULT AREAS, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
• Quality Control and Analysis- well conversant with physical, chemical and microbiological quality analyses with regards to maintaining both internal, customer, regulatory and statutory requirements, owing to my careful analysis and communication skills, attention to detail, and experience in Quality Management and Food Safety Management Systems.
• Environmental, Health and Safety- a safety champion in the workplace who ensures statutory, regulatory and the organization’s requirements are always complied with owing to my experience in Occupational Safety and Health, and Environmental Management Systems.
• Laboratory management with regards to adhering to and/or improving work procedures, and ensuring comprehensive analyses and safety.
• IMS Internal Audits- able to effectively conduct Integrated Management Systems Internal Audits on Quality Management, Environmental Management, Food Safety Management and Occupational Safety and Health Management Systems and report for continual improvement.
• Written and Verbal Communication Skills- able to speak to and guide a team, do presentations, write and submit reports on a timely manner and seek feedback.
• Good Organizational Skills, Determination and Time Management- owing to my current and previous experiences, I am able to manage the resources, including people, and tasks I am in the hold of with brilliance.
• Team Building and Leadership skills- able to organize, nurture, train and lead a team, and solve problems.
• Computer- Proficient with computer applications, SAP and Internet.
• Honesty and Discretion.
HEMPSTONE OMONDI
Nationality: Kenyan
Languages: English, Swahili
Phone: +254*********
E-mail: ***************@*****.***
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WORK EXPERIENCE
QUALITY ASSURANCE TEAM LEADER at KENAFRIC INDUSTRIES LIMITED- Confectionery Division.
(JAN 2021 - PRESENT)
Key Responsibilities as the Quality Assurance Team Leader:
• Developing and implementing Quality and Food Safety Management Systems including comprehensive documentation.
• Process and product optimization, validation and verification.
• Quality and Food Safety objectives monitoring and review.
• Monitoring of critical control points, GMPs and operational prerequisite programs.
• Implementing Quality and Food Safety policies and standards.
• Verifying retained documented information and ensuring accuracy, reliability and traceability of quality assurance data.
• Effectively integrating operations of the online, chemical, and microbiological laboratory quality controllers, and ensuring informed decision making in case of deviations.
• Allocating daily duties to the Quality Controllers and generating reports for review by the Quality Assurance Manager.
• Organising and leading the Quality Assurance team through Root Cause Analyses and CAPA, including tracking and review of the same.
• Leading the food safety and internal quality and food safety audit teams and ensuring proper documentation.
• Ensuring calibration of laboratory equipment and timely requisition of inventory.
• Implementing internal training on Quality and Food Safety.
• Implementing effective pest control system.
ENVIRONMENTAL, OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY COORDINATOR at MOMBASA MAIZE MILLERS LIMITED NAIROBI- Edible Oil Plant.
(APR 2020 – DEC 2020)
Key Responsibilities as the EOSH Coordinator:
• Developing and implementing the Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety policies.
• Writing and maintaining procedures e.g. PPE, Housekeeping and Waste Management Procedures.
• Maintaining the compliance register and following up on the renewal of statutory and regulatory licenses & permits regarding EOSH.
• Writing, maintaining and updating machine standard operating procedures and work instructions as part of the administrative controls on hazards within the workplace.
• Enforcing the permit to work system.
• Performing inspections and monitoring on housekeeping, PPE usage, safe work procedures and fire safety to ensure sustained safe work environment.
• Conducting investigations on accidents and incidents and maintaining the Accidents/Incidents register.
HEMPSTONE OMONDI
Nationality: Kenyan
Languages: English, Swahili
Phone: +254*********
E-mail: ***************@*****.***
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• Responsible for the optimum operation of the Effluent Treatment Plant, safety and compliance at the Boilers, and proper waste management techniques.
• Implementing the 6S kaizen through weekly monitoring.
• Performing risk assessments and maintaining the risk register.
• Coordinating the Health and Safety Committee and ensuring quarterly internal workplace inspections are done.
• Facilitating external audits e.g. Noise level surveys, Emissions monitoring, Air quality monitoring, Environmental audits, Fire safety audits, Electrical safety audits, and Occupational Health and Safety audits as needed.
• Conducting internal training and awareness on matters environmental and occupational health and safety. Ensuring installation of signage as needed.
• Drafting EOSH budget.
• Maintaining the EOSH documentation i.e. documents and records as needed for the smooth and effective running of the EOSH department.
Achievements
• Developed and implemented the Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety Policies across all plants.
• Managed an overall 6S score of 85%.
• Effectively implemented the PPE and housekeeping procedures.
• Established an active health and safety committee. QUALITY ASSURANCE SUPERVISOR at BIDCO AFRICA LIMITED- Beverage Plant.
(FEB 2018 – MAR 2020)
Key Responsibilities as a Quality Assurance Supervisor:
• Monitoring manufacturing processes to ensure adherence to procedures and requirements specified within SOPs and the HACCP programs, and making quick and strong decisions during operations.
• Preforming physical, and chemical checks and tests such as weight, torque, brix, gas volume and titratable acidity on the CSD, Water and NitroHotfill products, and running the production process to ensure that the quality of the product and its packaging are maintained according to the set specifications.
• Performing quality analyses on the treated and packaged water at the laboratory to ensure their turbidity, TDS and conductivity among other specifications are at standard levels.
• Sampling for and performing microbiological analyses for the treated water, the product at the syrup room, swabs on equipment, post-CIP rinse water, swabs on the machine operators, and samples of the final product(s). Also, performing microbiological analyses during product and CIP validations as needed.
• Ensuring tests and measurements such as analysis through polarised light and dimensional checks on the preforms and closures are done as required in the laboratory.
• Performing sensory evaluation on the final CSD, Water and NHF products during validation of new formulations as needed.
• Ensuring the calibration of the lab equipment by external parties.
• Writing, maintaining and improving quality assurance documentation including SOPs, objectives, quality plan, work instructions, Process flow diagrams, and quality control and inspection records as needed.
HEMPSTONE OMONDI
Nationality: Kenyan
Languages: English, Swahili
Phone: +254*********
E-mail: ***************@*****.***
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• Ensuring that 6-S lean, proper hygiene, food safety requirements and GMPs are properly observed within the factory by performing 6-S, hygiene and PRP inspections.
• Inspecting raw materials and packaging materials according to their set specifications and standards.
• Continuously monitoring Critical Control Points, maintaining them within acceptable limits and ensuring their effectiveness against potential hazards.
• Preparing quality assurance reports.
Key Responsibilities as the Health and Safety Committee Chairperson:
• Organising and chairing the occupational health and safety committee meetings on quarterly basis and ensuring that previously identified gaps are closed.
• Coordinating the Health and Safety Committee to perform the internal annual workplace inspection as required in the Environmental, Occupational, Safety and Health Procedure.
• Ensuring external audits on Environmental and Occupational Safety and Health such as noise level surveys, boiler emissions monitoring, environmental safety, air quality and fire safety are done as required.
• Organising the committee to conduct fire and spill drills.
• Constantly monitoring the status of the fire safety equipment.
• Monitoring the appropriateness of waste collection, segregation and disposal processes.
• Constantly checking and ensuring that documents relating to the Environmental, Health and Safety are well maintained and retained.
• Ensuring that employees are always in their personal protective equipment as needed.
• Ensuring that the relevant work permits are given to employees performing high risk duties.
• Ensuring that 6-S Kaizen is well observed in the factory to help mitigate risks that would arise out of negligence with respect to safety of the environment or the employee.
• Performing risk assessment, updating the risk register, and ensuring the implementation of the Environmental, Occupational, Safety and Health Procedure.
• Coming up with corrections, corrective and preventive actions to safety aspects.
• Performing internal audits as per the internal audit schedule to check on compliance and make recommendations in the spirit of 'kaizen'.
Achievements:
• Developed the entire documentation for the Plastics Department i.e. SOPs, Work Instructions, Quality Control and Inspection Forms, Quality Objectives, Quality Plan, and the HACCP Plan for plastics as a part of the plan of the whole plant.
• Trained on Food Safety Management Systems (ISO 22000:2018), Quality Management Systems (ISO 9001:2015), Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14001:2015), Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems (ISO 45001:2018) and Integrated Management Systems Internal Audits.
• Joined the Occupational Health and Safety committee as the chairperson, Fire Safety committee as a member, Food Safety committee as the secretary and Internal Auditors.
• Managed the laboratory, met targets and objectives in the quality department and gained a huge overall experience.
• Improved the hygiene and orderliness levels in the factory through regular inspections and ensuring the implementation of the 6-S lean technique.
• Ensured timely updating of relevant regulatory and statutory requirements e.g. permits. HEMPSTONE OMONDI
Nationality: Kenyan
Languages: English, Swahili
Phone: +254*********
E-mail: ***************@*****.***
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QUALITY ASSURANCE OFFICER at SANPAC AFRICA LIMITED
(APRIL 2016-FEB 2018)
Key Responsibilities:
• Overseeing the entire production processes of Injection Moulding(including In-Mould injection), Blow Moulding and Extrusion products.
• Performing tests on samples drawn from the production process and having noted the necessary observations, accepting or rejecting the products on basis of the findings from the samples checked.
• Drawing charts and filling in forms during the monitoring process of the productions on a daily basis.
• Ensuring that washing tools and detergents are always available and conducting the entire cleaning process.
• Inspecting raw materials and packaging materials according to specifications and standards.
• Conducting hygiene inspection and ensuring the 5-S work area compliance.
• Identifying non-conformances, ensuring they are well isolated, performing root cause analysis and coming up with appropriate corrections, and corrective and preventive actions.
• Writing work instructions, machines’ check sheets and product specifications as per the customer’s requirements.
• Creating quality and occupational health and safety weekly awareness.
• Performing internal audits on Quality Management Systems as scheduled in the Internal Audit Program.
Achievements:
• Contributed in minimising defects and rejections on the final products and thus achieving a remarkable improvement in the Quality Department as a whole within the first year.
• Trained as a Quality Management Systems Internal Auditor.
• Trained on the Quality Assurance duties, Internal Audits, Kaizen, Occupational Safety and Health, and Quality Management Systems. Also helped in the implementation of ISO 9001:2015 transiting from ISO 9001:2008.
HOBBIES AND INTERESTS
• Diverse reading and solving puzzles.
• Playing the guitar, listening to music and singing.
• Playing soccer.
REFEREES
Ms Winnie Cheruiyot,
Environmental, Health and Safety Manager,
BIDCO AFRICA LIMITED-Beverage Plant
Mr Dickson Muhindi,
Unit Manager- Processing,
EQUATOR BOTTLERS (Coca-Cola)
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