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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Spearhead knowledge transfer initiatives for quality milk and milk product production, focusing on enhancing product shelf life and overall quality.Conduct training sessions for operators, supervisors, and managers to elevate quality standards and improve production efficiency.Innovate new milk and milk product formulations, leveraging existing resources to create customized products.Regularly review and update procedures to align with advancements in the dairy processing field.Analyze sources of flavor, cultures, and additives, recommending optimal international options.Establish production standards, consistently achieving targets within set time and cost parameters.Develop new products, including Extended Shelf-Life Milk, UHT, cheese, flavored yogurt, ice cream, and child-flavored milk beverages, incorporating natural and identical flavors.Collaborate with vendors to implement FINO line from Tetra Pak for UHT milk packing, mentoring the procurement team for milk quality improvement.Ensure end-to-end quality systems improvement and implementation.Developed and implemented performance improvement strategies, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.Collaborate with top management to create plans, reviewing and liaising with machinery suppliers for upcoming greenfield milk processing projects, including detailed project reports and feasibility studies.

Mumbai Area, India

Oversaw the day-to-day operations, ensuring adherence to process SOPs and maintaining efficient laboratory functioning, handling an extensive daily volume of 8 lac (800,000) liters of various dairy products, including pouch milk, buttermilk, curd, paneer, and ice cream.Liaison and Compliance:Collaborated with Export Inspection Agency officials for export consignments to EU & Non-EU countries, meeting stringent Export Inspection Council Requirements.Conducted audits to ensure compliance with legal requirements and FSMS (Food Safety Management System) standards, achieving certification under FSSC 22000 V 5.1.Quality Control and Process Improvement:Reassessed quality control measures at a systemic level, proactively identifying and addressing non-conformances. Adapted procedures to mitigate issues, resulting in improved deficiencies.Conducted supplier audits, providing suggestions for improvements with a focus on cost optimization.Raw Milk Procurement and Regulatory Compliance:Implemented strategies for the quality improvement of raw milk procurement. Stayed updated with regulatory changes (FSSAI/PCB) and adopted new gazette notifications, ensuring compliance within the existing system.Led the FSSAI certification process for newly launched products.Complaint Management and Manufacturing Oversight:Minimized customer complaints through process and system improvements. Oversaw manufacturing process improvements and ensured the quality of traditional sweets in the Contract Manufacturing Unit.Supported quality control assessments on the manufacturing floor and introduction of new products and process improvements.

Hyderabad Area, India

Responsible for administrative and functional activity of the laboratory handling Milk, Value added products including curd, yoghurt, lassi, sterilized flavored milk, paneer, frozen desserts, ice cream, & ice candiesQuality improvements in aseptic products by improving raw milk quality standards with good practices in procurements, processing facilities and packing environments.Preparing OPEX and CAPEX budgets for the laboratory and suggest for upgradation of laboratory.Optimizing manpower utilization at plant and chilling centers, goal setting, training, and updating management on KPI quarterly statusCommunicating with vendor for any change as desired by the processing for any change or development of new packing materials or additivesResponsible for Food certifications compliances such as FSSAI, AGMARK and FSMS.Team leader for ISO-22000:2005, updating top management for any changes with respect to food safety, hygiene, process line requirement.Implementation of 55, Kaizen and SGA for cost control and quality improvement along with production teamAttending customer complaints and doing the RCA and CAPA along with the team for its closure

Kolkata

Responsible for the daily production of milk, curd, lassi, paneer, ice cream, ghee, and white butter as per the guidelines and company normsSet up standards for receiving raw materials from vendors and raw milk procurement section. Visit vendor plant supplying packaging materials and other raw materials for verification.Development of new products and conduct experiments with new additives and change in process parameters.Monthly presentation for recovery and develop report for top management and follow-up for minimizing the milk total solid and packaging material losses.To visit and train staff at grass route level for collection of good quality raw material, train about hygienic practice at the collection point and maintain the quality till reception at dairies.To coordinate and plan for conversion of skimmed milk to SMP for other dairies, to attain the quality of the finished product and to guide in the process for attaining maximum yield and good quality finished product.Attending market complaint/ institutional complaints and to carryout root cause analysis to eliminate the loopholes.Development and implementation of guidelines for processing and quality parameters on approval from corporate HOD.

Delhi, India

To coordinate between Mother Dairy & 3rd Party Packing station for smooth functioning &ensuring the processing, packing and dispatch of poly-pack milk for Mother Dairy as per the guidelines by stringent monitoring of quality & processing parameters. Follow up action plans for quality and processing improvements.Monitoring the availability of raw milk, in case of raw milk shortage, butter and SMP arrangement from Mother Dairy and Dairy Federations, stock monitoring and reporting for packaging materials.To monitor on the consumption of water, electricity, furnace oil, LDPE film etc. and report on the per unit production cost.To monitor dispatch activities with coordinating with logistic & sales for receipt of demand and timely dispatch of vehicles and crate accounting.Monitor and assist in additions/changes in the quality inspection systems to ensure their implementation as guided by Corporate Quality Assurance.To monitor quality management standards (ISO & HACCP) through audits and verify quality system functioning at the allotted plants as per a schedule.Investigate reasons for quality complaints based on market feedback and ensure corrective and preventive action.Acting as a reliever for Managers at the Central vendor development team.

Dankuni, Kolkata

Managing the milk and milk products laboratory and was processing as a third party unit for AMUL, kaira District cooperative milk producers union ltd., kolkata.

Barddhaman, West Bengal

Working as a dairy technologist for the procurement of raw milk in Barddhaman district, improvement in the milk quality, infrastructure development and farmers training on clean milk production.

Kurukshetra, Haryana, India

Responsible for the smooth operation and workforce management of the shift and maximize the production of skimmed milk powder, butter and ghee.

Msc., Dairy Chemistry

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