Quality Assurance Team Leader
Current• Lead, coordinate, maintain and control the HACCP system, SOPs (Standard Operating Procedure) and GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) of the company.• Develop / monitor company policies and procedures and recommend improvements.• Organize, prepare and improve and the various annual, monthly and weekly training courses on quality assurance and food safety for employees.• Ensure compliance with QMAFF (Quebec Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food) and CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency).• Perform internal audits.• Coordinate product quality control / assurance with supervisors and plant operators.• Identify the problem, the root cause, corrective actions and preventive measures to avoid the occurrence of deviations; check efficiency.• Interact with production teams when performing factory tests.• Staff management. I directly manage a team of 2 quality assurance technicians and a sanitation technician.• Manage purchasing and budgets for quality assurance and sanitation operations.• Supervise the various tasks of the physico-chemical, microbiological and sensory analysis laboratory.• Support the director of the quality assurance department in continuous improvement and manage the department in his absence.Achievements :• Reassess HACCP systems and the quality management program and improve the various standard operating procedures (SOPs).• Among the SOPs that I improved them, the SOP of the water change on the production line from source water to distilled water and vice versa where I managed to save the company an hour of production for each shift.