About

An enthusiast on matters food safety, quality, safety and standards. Experienced production team lead in the dairy industry as well as the fruits and vegetables industries.

Skills

  • Quality control and quality assurance
    8
  • incident investigation-root cause analysis
    7
  • Total Quality Management
    8
  • HACCP
    10
  • Good manufacturing practices
    10
  • ISO 22000
    8
  • root cause analysis
    7

Experience

Peninah Wanjiru

Work experience
  • January, 2023 - October, 2023
  • Fulltime
  • Ensure general cleaning and ozonation/ fumigation are effectively done as scheduled.
  • Monitoring all quality CCPs (Critical Control Points) and keep regular records of the same as scheduled. Including milk storage temperatures, homogenization pressures, clarification temperatures, pasteurization temperatures, sterilization temperatures, packing temperatures and their equivalent timings where applicable
  • Verify CIP (Cleaning in Place) effectiveness across all process lines
  • Verify chlorination dosage in all footbaths
  • Ensure all process steps meets the quality expectations and standards as per the regulatory and Bio in-house requirements
  • Timely and proper documentation of all quality related utilities/ processes/parameters as per the laid down standard operating procedures
  • Qualitative monitoring of all production processes to ensure compliance of the final products/outputs
  • Ensuring Work Instructions, procedures and records are in-place, are well followed by the production staff and well documented
  • Reporting identified critical compliance risks and recommendations to the Quality Assurance Head and Quality Manager

Peninah Wanjiru

Work experience
  • January, 2022 - January, 2023
  • Fulltime
  • raw milk analysis
  • monitoring raw milk pasteurization and homogenization
  • monitoring packing of fresh milk (3days shelf life) and long-life milk (3 months and 6 months shelf life)
  • overseeing date coding and labeling of sour milk, fresh milk and yoghurt
  • monitoring pasteurized milk in silos and communicating to the in-charge in case of any fluctuations in quality parameters
  • ensuring cleanliness of both personnel and production floor
  • ascertaining cleanness of product lines, product pumps and tanks using litmus paper
  • conducting quality checks on market return products and comparing with retention samples

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