KESHAV GHIMIREY *** Colony Drive

adt7tx@r.postjobfree.com Middletown PA 17057

Cell -717-***-****

Skills:

●Effective team player with excellent interpersonal communication skills

●Experience training peers and subordinates

●Cross-department manufacturing experience, including maintenance, sanitation, and quality assurance in an FSSC 22000 regulated food packaging environment

●Working knowledge of GMPs (current good manufacturing practices)

●Document control experience, including writing, reviewing and implementing new standard operating procedures (SOPs)

●Proficient in Microsoft Office Programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

●Multilingual speaker (English, Nepali, Hindi, Maithili)

Experience:

Quality Assurance Assistant Supervisor, Fresh Express, June 2018 - Present

●Effective coaching, training, and development of QA personnel including QA technicians

●Following and enforcing plant GMP and allergen management protocols

●Supervision of raw material inspection team to ensure compliance to corporate and customer product specifications

●Resolving food safety incidents (FSIs) by proper isolation and disposition of affected product and communicating incidents to both the plant and corporate management

●Oversees plant critical control points (CCPs) by ensuring technicians are properly performing and documented periodic checks of metal detection systems and rinse flume water chemistry

●Participating in plant audits

●Monitoring sanitation effectiveness through visual plant pre-operational inspections, ATP swabbing, and microbial testing such as aerobic plate count (APC) and Listeria sampling

Maintenance Mechanic Fresh Express, December2017- May 2018

Operate CMMS system and demonstrate 100% functionality in order to complete work orders as well as log corrective maintenance issues in the system

Effectively communicate with production personnel and other mechanics to identify problematic areas of concern; provide and receive feedback and/or support through collection and analysis of information

Perform electrical repairs and troubleshoot for the following: PLC Controls, AC & DC motor controls, solid state motor controls, advance circuits and grounding, interpret diagrams and test equipment

Read schematics, drawings, and manuals to establish facts and draw valid conclusions

Support facility maintenance equipment, which includes the following: waste water equipment, compressed air, refrigeration and building safety equipment

Must demonstrate an understanding of the company's objectives including productivity, yields, food safety, quality, customer service and cost goals; daily work activities should support achieving those goals

Perform daily inspections, emergency repairs, and routine adjustments; follow periodic preventive maintenance schedule

Maintain organized documentation, inspection records, etc.

Serve as a resource to other departments in order to resolve mechanical issues and maintain production efficiencies

Provide support to Process Improvement (PI) projects and participate on safety teams

Perform other duties as required or assigned

Fresh Rinse Technician Operator, Fresh Express, November 2015 to March 2017

●Responsible for maintaining the operational readiness of the chemical dosing systems (automatic and manual) include effective shift start-up by mixing chemical batches appropriately to ensure production can begin

●Documenting chemical use including on-site inventory and assisting with bulk deliveries

●Active participation in development and delivery of various training plans to ensure proper execution of system requirements

●Involved in technical troubleshooting and repair activities to ensure proper function of equipment such as PLCs, controls, system reliability, industrial waste controls, and related ancillary systems

●Maintenance of neutralizing system for chemical mixing room and ensuring proper chemical pH

Quality Assurance Technician. Fresh Express, July 2012 - November 2015

●Maintaining operations of critical control points (CCPs) on the production floor by regular periodic checks of metal detectors and Fresh Rinse/chemicals in the wash flume system such as by free chlorine testing, 1x testing of bulk LA and PAA

●Performing pre-operational inspections to release the plant to production following nighty sanitation cycle

●Monitoring sanitation effectiveness through visual inspection, ATP swabbing, and microbial testing such as aerobic plate count (APC) and Listeria sampling

●Inspecting finished product to be released to shipment (pre-shipment inspections)

●Production floor inspections including monitoring and documenting plant temperatures

●Generating quality reports such as raw product quality communication (RPQC) and raw product temperature communication (RPTC)

●Handling and properly reporting food safety incidents (FSIs) at various points in the production process

●Assisting in the training of other QA technicians using Alchemy training system, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and hands-on training

●Enforcing good manufacturing practices (GMPs)

●Assisting sanitation department to improve the cleaning processes and sanitation results

Sanitation Technician, Fresh Express, June 2011 - July 2012

●Working knowledge of the 7 Steps of Sanitation as well as familiarity with performing chemical titrations and documenting sanitation activities in the Master Sanitation Schedule (MSS)

●Document control experience such as writing, reviewing, and implementing new standard operating procedures (SOPs)

●Acting as the subject matter expert to coordinate communication between departments in order to effectively clean and release the facility following nightly sanitation schedule

●Performing pre-operational plant inspections and other sanitation monitoring activities such as environmental swabbing, Listeria sampling, deep cleans (tear downs), and aerobic plate count (APC)

●Acting as an example to implement, communicate, and enforce GMP rules

●Experienced in generating work orders to repair or replace damaged equipment

Sealing Department, Pearson, November 2010 – April 2011

●Sealing books of various sizes while verifying the presence of the seal, overall quality, and correct quantity of books

●Scanning the barcode of the sealer to ensure properly entry of the data into the computer system

●Working the quality control line to ensure that the books were up the standard of quality expected by the customers

Editor, Caritas Nepal, Damak -11 (Jhapa Nepal), 2008 - 2009

●Co-Editor of Youth Friendly Center's monthly newsletter

●Coordinating incoming submissions and editing for final print

Education and Additional Training:

Graduated from citizen Police Academy 2019

●Mechi Multiple Campus, Jhapa Nepal, 2005 – 2008

●Completed three years of the bachelor’s degree program majoring in sociology

●First Aid Basics, AED, CPR, and Bloodborne Pathogens, Fresh Express, 2014

●Radio Program Production and Presentation, Kanchenjunga FM, Nepal, 2009

●Advanced community psychosocial worker, trans- cultural psychosocial org, 2009

Volunteer Activities:

●Youth Forum Member, Lutheran World Service, 2004 - 2009

Volunteer leader for a variety of youth activities and community initiatives in refugee camps

●Volunteer, Multicultural Coalition “Translation of Languages”, 2009 - 2011

Instruction and tutoring in computer classes

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