Haresh Bavadiya

Supervision of Quality Assurance/Control, Sanitation, receiving raw materials and Import products of facility, which generates over $90 million CAD a year Sales Revenue. Managing IN HOUSE WATER TREATMENT PLANT (900 Sq. Feet) with help of maintenance team. Supervision of direct reports (2 Production Leads). Manage and provide leadership and direction in areas of training, development, maintenance of facility (60000 Sq.-foot). Management of sanitation crew involving 31 employees. Responsibility for development and delivery of policies and procedures through documentation and training of employees in areas of Food Safety, HACCP, GMP and SOP programs with using various QMS systems. Responsible for environmental and sanitation programs for facility for over 60000 Sq. Foot. Interacted with suppliers to manage alterations in packaging material specifications, ensuring seamless production processes and achieving complete customer satisfaction.

ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Improve efficiency of the water treatment plant by switching supplier and using just enough concentrate of chemicals resulting in cost savings of $20,000/year CAD
• Successfully Implanted 5S strategy for year of 2023-2024 at Ontario pride eggs which projected cost savings of $30,000 / year CAD.

Collaborated with the Brewing and Quality departments to ensure liquid availability, enabling a daily production volume of 1.6 billion Litres yearly worth $110 million CAD yearly in Sales Revenue. Led a team of 35 production technicians with overseeing daily start-ups, changeovers, and sanitation for a bottle line and two can lines. Ensured proper packaging usage to prevent holds and material loss, safeguarding the yearly production budget. Investigated productivity issues, breakdowns, and safety incidents, coordinating solutions with Maintenance and Management. Collaborated across departments, optimizing production workflows for an 80,500 sq. Ft. Facility. Managed scheduling of preventative maintenance during downtimes for production machines.

ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Metal detector implantation for bottles missing crowner at packaging. Preventing the distribution of improperly sealed bottles reduces the likelihood of product recalls or returns, saving the company $30,000/ year CAD of customer reimbursement (CHARGEBACKS).
• By strategically planning and implementing preventative maintenance activities during scheduled downtimes, successfully mitigated the risk of unforeseen machine failures, leading to a notable 5% decrease in production disruptions caused by unexpected breakdowns which helped save $40,000 / year CAD.

Oversaw preventive maintenance, calibration, and troubleshooting for analytical instruments including HPLC, Auto titrator, Rapid T, density meter, pH meter, Sodium Meter, Analyzer, and Lab devices. Managed food safety policies, conducted thorough investigations, implementing effective corrective actions, and establishing preventive measures. Led audits and traceability exercises for compliance. Trained and coached a team of 8 Quality Assurance technicians, overseeing daily operations.

ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Revised, updated all the recipes (in QMS-INTELEX) working with R&D department and worked with Quality manager over 6 months to setup new QMS (VICINITY), which helped in saving Quality and Brewing department labor cost of $40,000 / year CAD.
• Successfully implanted a method of analysis and SOP Written for Caffeine, benzoate, and other preservative to produce a best quality beer using HPLC-Empower 3 as per new customer requirement which generated $2.5 million / year CAD.

Precisely operated lab instruments for microbiological and chemical tests, ensuring food safety and quality compliance. Conducted air and water system tests, detecting contaminants for a secure environment. Vigilantly monitored Critical Control Points for consumer safety and regulations. Led thorough microbiological assessments for new products and beer production stages. Verified lot codes, labels, and specifications before batch release, upholding top-notch quality. Contributed to sensory evaluation, assessing beer at all stages with refined expertise.

ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Additional costs saving generated by the amount of $60,000 / year CAD by identifying the bed yeast quality by microbiology before start fermentation which may have led to batch failure (bed taste) during fermentation process.

Conducted thorough quality control examinations, employing techniques such as 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, HPLC, DEPTH, and various Mass spectrometry methods including ESI & APCI, as well as IR spectroscopy. Collaborated with R&D leadership to support research and advancement initiatives for both novel product creation and product enhancement. Assisted R&D team to create rapid dissolution tablet formulation for existing products.