Mankirat Kaur
Kitchener,ON
Summary
Talented kitchen leader offers over two years of experience preparing and serving diverse foods. Motivates employees to exceed customer expectations in high-volume settings while maintaining strong quality and cost controls. Service-oriented with good multitasking, safety management, and decision-making skills.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Food Service Supervisor
Trinity Village Care Center
07.2022 - 12.2023
- Ensured compliance with health department regulations, maintaining a clean and safe kitchen environment for staff and customers.
- Contributes to keeping the dietary department clean and safe
- Offers Cook aid in preparation and serving of meals
- Closely monitored food safety procedures ensuring consistent adherence to HACCP guidelines, preventing foodborne illnesses.
- The right way to store, date, and label food
- Streamlined order processing and improved overall service flow with effective communication between kitchen and front-of-house teams.
- Skilled in menu planning, inventory management, and ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations
- Strong communicator focused on customer satisfaction, demonstrated through effective conflict resolution and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Ensured compliance with health department regulations, maintaining a consistently clean and safe kitchen environment for staff and customers alike
Quality Assurance Technician
Conestoga College
01.2023 - 08.2023
- Strong understanding and working experience in a food production context with HACCP, GFSI, SQF, food law
- Quality Assurance programs, including process controls, training, and supplier management
- Environmental samples from RTE locations are being collected for microbiological testing.
- Ensures that the current Quality Control Plan is followed and that any deviations are discovered and notified to the operations
- Continuously improves quality standards and specifications to satisfy corporate and customer needs.
- Regular inspections and testing of raw materials, ingredients, and completed goods to discover any contamination, faults, or deviations from quality standards, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points(HACCP)
- Perform daily monitoring and verification activities as defined in the FSMS Program, and issue corrective measures for deviations
- Conduct microbiological and analytical sampling of the product and the surroundings.
- Verify different HACCP and FSMS-related operations.
- Demonstrated respect, friendliness, and willingness to help wherever needed
Food Safety Specialist
Tim Horton
02.2022 - 09.2022
- Utilizing cash registers, taking payments, and creating sales invoices are all chores that need to be done
- Work as a crew member and in addition to that I did baking food
- Encourages an exciting and fun work environment while motivating team members to meet goals
- Conducts internal audits on a weekly basis to ensure compliance with food safety standards
- Swabbing in zones and collecting samples for microbial testing, and professional
- Plans, executes, evaluates, and accurately documents audit reports.
Produce Associate
Walmart
09.2021 - 03.2022
- By giving customers what they needed, I was able to increase their pleasure and learn about customerservice while working in a fast-paced retail setting
- I also worked in the backroom to keep inventories offresh items.
Nutritional Consultant
Venkateshwara Hospital
09.2019 - 08.2021
- Monitor and assess customers' nutritional needs based on medical history and recommend dietary changes
- Analyzing and interpreting the clients' health history
- Providing regular guidance to customers regarding healthy eating habits and problems
- Provide consumers with daily health tips to encourage healthy eating and aid them in making dietary adjustments
- Assisting in creating customer diet charts depending on their health, BMI, and nutritional needs.
Education
Postgraduate - Food Safety and Quality Assurance
Conestoga College
Kitchener, ON08.2023
Postgraduate - Food and Nutrition Service Management
Georgian College
Barrie, ON08.2023
Bachelors - Home Science
Delhi University
Delhi, India 08.2019
Skills
- TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Leadership and Management: - Team Building and Motivation Staff Training and Development, Scheduling and Shift
- Management
- Food Safety and Hygiene: HACCP Compliance, Food Handling and Storage, Health, and Safety Regulation
- Operations and Planning: Menu Planning and Development, Inventory Management, Budgeting and Cost Control
- Team Collaboration: Vendor Relations and Negotiation, Cross-Functional Coordination, Quality Control
- Technical Proficiency: Point of Sale (POS) Systems, Microsoft Office Suite, Inventory Management Software
- Adaptability: Ability to Thrive in Fast-Paced Environments, Flexibility in Handling Changing Circumstances, Quick
- Problem-Solving Skills
- Quality Assurance: Ensuring High Standards of Food Quality, Implementing and Maintaining Quality Control
- Processes, Continuous Improvement in Service and Product Quality
- Interpersonal Skills: Building Positive Relationships with Team Members, Collaborating with Cross-Functional Team
- Resolving Team Conflicts Effectively
Certification
Food Safety Handler
Timeline
Quality Assurance Technician
Conestoga College
01.2023 - 08.2023
Food Service Supervisor
Trinity Village Care Center
07.2022 - 12.2023
Food Safety Specialist
Tim Horton
02.2022 - 09.2022
Produce Associate
Walmart
09.2021 - 03.2022
Nutritional Consultant
Venkateshwara Hospital
09.2019 - 08.2021
Postgraduate - Food Safety and Quality Assurance
Conestoga College
Postgraduate - Food and Nutrition Service Management
Georgian College
Bachelors - Home Science
Delhi University
Food Safety Handler
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