Anchal Rajput
Kitchener,Canada
Summary
Results-driven Food Safety Quality Assurance Supervisor with four years of experience ensuring compliance with CFIA, BRCGS, FSEP, and FSQMS standards. Proven expertise in executing internal audits, conducting root cause analysis, and initiating corrective actions, achieving an "A" grade in BRCGS Certification. Skilled in supervising FSQA Technicians and administering HACCP programs while implementing process enhancements that improve product quality and efficiency. Proficient in SAP and SAP-RD to streamline operations.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
HACCP Specialist
Maple leaf foods
Guelph, Ontario
07.2024 - Current
- Create, design, implement, and maintain written HACCP Food Safety and Quality programs according to current MIR, MOP, FSEP, and other applicable legislative requirements.
- Actively review the HACCP Plan, and lead HACCP reassessment activities.
- Lead monthly cross-functional HACCP team meetings.
- Conduct HACCP on-site assessments with designated, trained employees.
- Conduct HACCP validation studies.
- HACCP/QA documentation review (paper and electronic review, and verification).
- Provide HACCP and food safety training, orientation, and guidance to hourly and salaried employees, and visitors.
- Prepare programs and records for CFIA tasks.
- Assist with third-party audits (CVS, HACCP, BRC, FSQMS, or customer) and prepare and coach cross-functional managers before and during audits.
- Monitor for compliance with GMPs through on-floor inspections and audits.
- Support other roles in the FSQA team as required.
- Act as the gatekeeper for SAP-RD, and release all the ECRs and new R&D projects.
- Active involvement in day-to-day tasks to support operations.
- Review all Critical Control Point (CCP) monitoring and verification records to ensure compliance with HACCP critical limits and frequencies, as required by the HACCP plan.
- Monitor corrective action tracker database to ensure continuous improvement activities cited from internal and external audits are acted upon and remain on track.
- Verify that all inbound and outbound products consistently meet our specifications for quality (size, weight, trim, color, etc.). By measuring key metrics and adhering to sampling and testing programs.
Food Safety Quality Assurance Supervisor
Nuts For Cheese
London
02.2023 - 06.2024
- To ascertain the necessary corrective and preventive actions, conduct root cause analyses of noncompliances, process variances, and customer complaints.
- As the leader of ongoing improvement projects at all levels, including upstream with approved suppliers, I lead and support strategic FSQA activities.
- Manage the HACCP Program, conduct annual training, and reassess compliance for food safety.
- Identify and implement process improvements to enhance product quality and efficiency.
- Assist plant teams in meeting the demands of the Private Label (PL) company and internal audits consistently
- Oversee FSQA Technicians, ensuring consistent and effective work aligned with company standards
- Coordinate internal audits, ensuring adherence to customer, regulatory, and food safety requirements
- Maintains regulatory compliance with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) of the FDA, the BRC, and the PCP (Preventive Controls) of the CFIA
- This includes, but is not limited to, following SOPs, prerequisite programs, policies, and other guidelines; performing recalls and mock recalls
- In charge of planning and organizing the internal audit calendar, as well as carrying out and coordinating internal audits with the organization's other internal auditors to ensure we are fulfilling all customer, regulatory, and food safety requirements (CFIA, FDA, BRC, gluten-free, kosher, organic, vegan, etc.).
- Give site operation leads, and members of the FSQA team, the training, resources, and guidance they need to address food safety and quality-related concerns
- Collaborate closely with colleagues nationwide across FSQA, Production, and Procurement to guarantee weekly fulfillment and delivery runs well
- Provide functional support to crisis team including backing up FSQA Manager as recall site lead if required
- Responsible for actions about pathogen test programs, non-conformance scenarios, etc
- That involve holds and releases
- Make sure that all FSQA initiatives are carried out efficiently to comply with all legal requirements, business and customer food safety strategies, and food quality standards (CFIA, Health Canada, FDA, etc.)
- Take part in the creation of cross-functional SOPs and make sure that facility SOPs and associated paperwork are communicated, stored, and formatted correctly by manufacturing excellence standards
- Working with a cross-functional team to conduct monthly GMP, internal, and external audits and finding areas for improvement
- In charge of carrying out yearly process validations and verifications for laundry, metal detectors, cleaning and sanitation, and product pH
HACCP/Quality Assurance Coordinator
Nuts for cheese
02.2022 - 01.2023
- Coordinating ATP with QA personnel to confirm sanitary procedures; maintaining internal food and raw material requirements; and keeping track of trends and reviews
- Responsible for Reviewing Customer complaints, Pest control reports, label approval, record verification and updating the QMS, HACCP plan, SOP's and PRPs accordingly
- Executes activities about pre-requisite programs and operation pre-requisite programs, as well as record review and on-site verifications for CCP operators
- Review all paperwork from the Plant, including CCP records and US Pre-shipment reviews, as well as QA Technician Task Lists and swab results etc
- Identifies trends related to pre-operational and sanitation performance, through sanitation scorecards and rewash logs and communicates trends to management during monthly meetings
- Establish guidelines and monitor the processes to guarantee food safety throughout the entire process, from receiving to production to packaging to shipment
- Work closely with the QA technician, and EMP/Sanitation team to ensure the SSOP, ATP and EMP procedures are implemented properly
- Monitors sanitation effectiveness and conducts microbiological trend analysis
- Assist with third-party audits, including implementing corrective actions for non-conformances identified
- Keep an updated food safety deviation log to make sure preventive actions are implemented fully
- Completes responsibilities about pre-requisite programs and operation pre-requisite programs, as well as record reviews and on-site verifications for CCP operators
- In charge of providing new and current workers with orientation and trainings pertaining to food safety
- Working closely with the marketing and sales team to launch new and review packaging labels' regulatory requirements accordingly
- Participating in New Product Development Meetings and assisting the team with Final Specifications of new products
Pre-Op Quality Assurance Technician / Document control coordinator
Grand River Foods
03.2021 - 01.2022
- Knowledge of and ensure compliance with CFIA/GFSI & Health & Safety regulations, company policies, and standard operating procedures regarding food safety programs relating to pre-operational and sanitation activities
- Worked Closely with CFIA during monthly Pre-op audit and assisting all the CVS tasks
- Helping the Quality team during SQF audit by providing all the requested Documents
- Assists with the development, implementation, maintenance, and verification of the sanitation manual and preoperational activities
- Ensure documentation and resolution of deviations originating from equipment tear down, sanitation, and equipment re-assembly as it relates to pre-operational and sanitation activities
- Note poor premises and equipment conditions and issue work orders for repairs
- Conducts ATP, Protein, and Allergen swabbing and sampling as applicable to pre-operational inspection and approval
- Conducting and maintaining EMP Program to fulfil the regulatory Requirements and updating the program whenever necessary
- Identifies trends related to pre-operational and sanitation performance, through sanitation scorecards and rewash logs, and communicating trends to management
- Maintains the environmental monitoring, including record completion and trending of results
- Performs various Offline and online Quality tasks during operation and conducts Profiling
Education
Graduate Certificate - Project Management
Conestoga College
Kitchener, ON12.2020
Graduate Certificate - Operations Leadership in Food Manufacturing
Conestoga College
Cambridge, ON04.2020
Bachelor's Degree - Food Science And Technology
D.A.V Collage
India07.2018
Skills
- SAP proficiency
Certification
- HACCP International
- Global Standard for Food Safety Issue 9: Site Training
- Food Fraud and Food Defense
- BRCGS Internal Auditor
- Six Sigma- White belt
- Verification and Validation
- Root Cause Analysis
Timeline
HACCP Specialist
Maple leaf foods
07.2024 - Current
Food Safety Quality Assurance Supervisor
Nuts For Cheese
02.2023 - 06.2024
HACCP/Quality Assurance Coordinator
Nuts for cheese
02.2022 - 01.2023
Pre-Op Quality Assurance Technician / Document control coordinator
Grand River Foods
03.2021 - 01.2022
Graduate Certificate - Project Management
Conestoga College
Graduate Certificate - Operations Leadership in Food Manufacturing
Conestoga College
Bachelor's Degree - Food Science And Technology
D.A.V Collage