Experienced Production Manager having nine years of experience in large-scale food processing plant, food service and retail, handling 400 to 500 employees including Production Managers, Shift Managers and lobor efficiently by mentoring and giving them right direction successfully. By using education experience of Food Science and Technology having good grip on Food Safety, Food Quality, Food Research & Development and Good Manufacturing Practices, having good communication skills to deal professionally with plant head, other Plant Management or Retail Store Management.
• Manage all Production, Production Managers and Labor
• Improvement and development of production process for the purpose of yield enhancement, wastage reduction and quality and / or safety improvement
• Section wise product cost control
• Organize all the activities to establish and implement HACCP System, to ensure consumer safety
• Guide the value stream to ensure managers are engaged and high performing with a focus on problem solving and team work according to business nature
• Ensure effective compliance of company polices and standards
• Continuous product improvement by discovering better operational standards and ingredients
• Work closely with production managers and other department management to plan work, set targets and make sure the finished product meet quality standards
• Monitoring production schedules and adjusting them if problem occurs
• Monitoring orders, setting standards and estimating timescales
• Managing additional role of Plant Head on request
• Plan, direct and evaluate the operations of retail store
• Manage staff and assign duties
• Study market research and trends to determine consumer demand, potential sales volumes and effect of competitors’ operations on sales
• Determine merchandise and services to be sold, and implement price and credit policies
• Source and negotiate with vendors when necessary to procure merchandise for resale
• Plan budgets, authorize expenditures, and monitor revenues
• Address staffing requirements, including the hiring, development and retention of staff
Developing and implementation of FSSC 22000 standards at Store, Production area and Branches
Managing all Quality Assurance and Quality Control activates and ensuring all the activates and process complying with local legal authorities standards as well as Jalal Sons standards
Submit daily, weekly and monthly QA, QC reports to HOD and discuss improvement points with whole team
Reduction of wastage of food and non-food based raw material in store and warehouse by cooperating with the whole team
Training of Food Handlers and Food Safety team on general SOPs, GMP, Labelling Standards, Section Division and other standards
Dealing with all suppliers, keeping their record and accepting rejecting their products on based of Quality Standards
Manage internal and external audits
Developing system and documentation for Halal Certification and ISO 220002005
Feedback quality problems to the production team and find a solution to improve quality level
Visit vicinity/Location of raw material supplier
Providing Consultancy to Private Food Business about Punjab Food Authority SOPs Rules and Regulations
Daily routine detail inspections of Food Premises (Restaurants, Hotels, Food Industries etc.) in different towns of Lahore
Milk raids at different entering points of Lahore
Sampling of different brands of Milk, Oil, Ghee, Water and other food items
On spot testing of food materials
Special Raids under supervision of Worthy Director General Punjab Food Authority, Minister Food Punjab, Director Vigilance PFA Lahore, Director General Operations Centeral PFA Lahore, Deputy Director Operations PFA Lahore with Food Safety Teams of Lahore and Sheikhupura.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Working as a Quality Assurance Officer in Gourmet Foods Lahore (June2016 – Onwards).
Inspection of raw materials.
Process inspection
Feedback quality problems to the production team and find a solution to improve quality level.
Enforce food safety.
Corrective / preventive actions against customer complaints
Conducting Internal compliance Audits / Inspections and submit reports along with suggested corrective actions.
Reviews documentation before is present to QA Manager.
Implements ongoing quality improvement processes working with interdepartmental teams.
Review product and process non-conformance and recommend remedial actions.
Visit vicinity / Location of raw material supplier.
Conduct retention sampling and trade sampling and suggest corrective action if any.
Internal Audit of Shops.