Food Safety Quality Assurance

RAHUL SINGH

+91-813******* ʌV **************@*****.*** • Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

D.O.B: 01st July 1994

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Dynamic and seasoned Food Safety professional with 8+ years of progressive experience in Food Safety and Quality Management, Regulatory Compliance, Project Management in the food industry. Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, ensure food safety compliance, and drive operational excellence across multiple sites and vendors. CORE COMPETENCIES

• Food Safety & Regulatory Compliance – FSSAI Schedule IV

• FSSAI, ISO, HACCP, BRC, FSSC 22000, ISO 22000, GMP, IFS Standards

• Internal/External Audits & Vendor Management and onboarding

• Supply Chain Quality Assurance – Process and product integrity

• Project Management (CAPEX/OPEX)

• MIS, KPI Dashboards & Root Cause Analysis

• Training & Food Safety Culture Promotion

• SAP, MS Office, Power BI, Workplace Tools

CERTIFICATIONS

• FOSTAC Manufacturing & Warehousing – Advanced – LEVEL 2

• ISO 22000:2018, HACCP & FSSC V5.1 – Foodiesys

• ISO 9001:2015 Internal Auditor – SGS

• Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt (2023) Black Belt (Feb 2025)

• Functional Foods – IIT Kanpur Communication Skills – 2023

• e-PG Program in Public Health Nutrition (Jan 2025) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Nestlé India Ltd. Executive – Supply Chain Quality Assurance (West Branch) Jun 2022 – Present

• Develop and exercise to implement Integrated Management Systems (IMS) policies, Food Safety standards / systems across 3P sites to meet Global Food safety, Quality and regulatory requirement.

• Lead vendor audits, onboarding, and capability building for FSSAI, LM, and statutory compliance with 100% adherence to Quality, Food Safety and Regulatory score.

• Branch representative and SME for leading Global/NIA audits. Achieved Satisfactory rating twice.

• Plan and conduct Quality and Food Safety Audits at Factories, 3P, DCs, CD and suppliers ensuring compliance to Nestle Global standards and guidelines.

• Monitoring and Continuous improvement: Developed and monitored KPI dashboards, led deviation management with 100% compliance

• Supported automation, risk mitigation, project planning, product trials/launch with product specification finalization with strategic approach and stakeholder coordination.

• Training and Development: Develop and impart Food Safety Training program for multifunctional teams across West Region

• Represent Quality Team for strategic inputs in important business decisions in continuous improvement.

• Process Development and Validation: Delivered 40% reduction in customer complaints through improved redressal tools

• Coordinate process validations and trials for new launches in process, storage and distribution to minimize potential risks.

• Manage Quality innovation, improvement and compliance adherence program by integrating new technologies and preventive approaches.

• Incident and recall management: incident investigations reduction for Foods, UHT, Chocolate, Dairy category – with HO, R&D, 3P, Sales and Factory team, identifying RCA and implement CAPA.

• Review and optimize Food Safety and Quality standards providing technical insights.

• Analyzing Market trends in Quality and Food Safety adopting the best practices in Operations.

• Managed CAPEX/OPEX budgeting and planning for food and human safety projects (Quality). Nature Bio Foods Ltd. (LT Group) Quality Executive (FSMS) Aug 2020 – May 2022

• Led FSMS implementation for GMP, HACCP, ISO 45001, IFS, BRC, FSSC, ISO 22000, GMP, FDA and EU

– 5 sites pan India.

• Conduct Risk Assessment on process and facilities, develop HACCP to avoid food safety risks.

• Facilitated audits and compliance for FSSAI, APEDA, EIA – at all sites with 100% implementation

• Oversaw packaging material development, Vendor onboarding and management for private labelling, 3P Manufacturing sites for food safety and statutory compliance

• Delivered CAPA for customer complaints and trained staff on GHP, GMP, GDP, HACCP

• Analyze Customer feedback and drive improvement projects.

• Drive Internal audit at all sites and take actions to close to comply with policies and procedures Avitech Nutrition Pvt. Ltd. Analyst (Wet Chemistry) May 2019 – Jul 2020

• Conducted analysis of R&D samples, standardized chemicals, and ensured GLP/GDP

• Managed instrument calibration, internal audits, and OOS report preparation Imperial Malts Ltd. Quality Executive – Documentation Sep 2018 – Apr 2019

• Conducted IPQC and traceability for organic/conventional malt products

• Supported audits, calibration schedules, and HACCP implementation Daawat Foods Ltd. (LT Group) Quality Executive

Jun 2016 – Dec 2017

• Quality monitoring of rice and wheat products under USFDA, EU, and FSSAI norms

• Worked on fortified product R&D and supported infrastructure upgradation under APEDA EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• M.Sc. in Food Technology – Guru Jambheshwar University (2014–2016) 70.9%

• B.Sc. (Hons) in Food Technology – University of Delhi (2011–2014) 70.31% KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

• 100% FSSAI 3P Audit score across all DCs for 3 consecutive years (Nestlé)

• Led transition of 6 DC projects with 100% compliance on-time and within budget

• Designed and executed Pan-India temperature & humidity monitoring system

• Enabled successful IMS standard implementation across West Branch

• Awarded for digitization of GMP audits and production records

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