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Ripudaman Singh

Truganina,VIC

Summary

Experienced and enthusiastic Food Technologist with a demonstrated history of working in the Food & Dairy Industry. Skilled in New Product Development, Vendor relationship management and Quality management system. My goal is to land a challenging position in a company that will allow me to develop quickly while utilising my technical, managerial, interpersonal, and communication skills. In exchange, I would work to consistently improve these talents for the benefit of both the organisation and myself, in an effort to be a valuable resource to the team.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Food Technologist

Kyvalley Dairy Group
06.2022 - Current
  • Actively involved and lead the new product and existing product trails
  • Provide technical support to production and sales team
  • Actively involve in HACCP planning and risk assessments
  • Develop new product process and procedures (SOP'S), including selecting ingredients, formulation of the product, safety checks and shelf-life studies and upscaling the formulation
  • Develop new procedures for production and product design (product change management system), with improvements as needed and developing testing protocols across all lines to be followed by QA
  • Conducting internal audits on the QMS system and standard procedures involving identifying gaps in the system, checking relevant documentations, and implementing corrective actions
  • Maintain internal documents including safety data sheets, plant and lab equipment calibration records on system, pest control documents
  • Conducting equipment calibration and troubleshooting including FOSS FT1 and FT3 milkoscans
  • Actively handle the Hold and Release process for any non-conforming product
  • Approved supplier Management - Validation of vendor assurance system involving supplier screening, food fraud, raw material testing and screening, maintaining supplier certification information and product specifications
  • Responsible for issuing the certificate for analysis for all the products being manufactured in plant, to all customers
  • Handling customer complaints related to consumer, food service and stakeholder complaints and conducting trend analysis for customer complaints
  • Sending corrective action report or NCRs to customers and actively taking follow up of the same
  • Conducting GMP audits and safety walks and reporting any non-conformances to higher management
  • Provide training and support to the quality assurance team, and HACCP team on systems, policies, procedures, and core processes related to new products, where applicable
  • Review artwork to ensure it is compliant to legislation, creating finished product specifications.

Quality Assurance officer

GCMMF, AMUL, INDIA
08.2016 - 12.2021
  • Monitored quality and production aspects of Milk (700K Litres /day), Yoghurt (40K Kg/day), Buttermilk (60K L/day), Ice cream, Ice candies, Stick ice creams
  • Commencement of new plants, Launch of fresh products in new market
  • Key responsibilities
  • Monitored quality of the incoming raw material, packing material, raw ingredients and maintaining the legal standards of final products being manufactured in plant
  • Developed different frozen stick variety premium condensed milk ice candies
  • Active member of troubleshooting team and help them in quality related issues as quickly as possible and ensured that the production process run smoothly
  • Conducted new products trails and tested new products in pilot plant and laboratory in conjunction with other relevant stakeholders including process engineers, flavour experts, and procurement specialists to resolve any problems
  • Assisted in the development of various standards including food manufacturing, packaging and delivery, safety and sanitary and waste management standards that confirm to government regulations
  • Participated in Plant Hygiene-Housekeeping &Warehouse Depot Audits
  • Reporting to the higher authority for any anomalies found in the manufacturing process
  • Outlined the raw material and final product specification as per the legal and company standards
  • Worked closely within the plant operations to assist key Production and Quality, Research & Development staff when assessing and developing new technical/process capabilities
  • Attended the customer complaints for product quality and packaging issues and actively resolved them by assisting the production and quality team
  • Achievements
  • Standardized the process of Probiotic sugar free ice cream and nutraceutical ice cream
  • Successfully started new plant in Punjab, India region and launched fresh milk products in the market under AMUL brand

Education

M.Tech - Food Science and Technology

RMIT University
Melbourne, VIC
07.2023

M.Tech - Dairy Technology

National Dairy Research Institute, India
07.2016

B.Tech - Dairy Technology

National Dairy Research Institute, India
06.2014

Skills

  • Certified internal auditor
  • New product development
  • Physical, chemical, and microbial analysis of milk and milk products
  • Root cause analysis and investigations
  • Hygiene and housekeeping audits of food manufacturing plants
  • Lab equipment operations and calibrations
  • Good manufacturing practice
  • Good hygiene practice
  • Active Listening and Learning
  • Able to work as individual or as a team
  • MS office, excel
  • Good communication and writing skills

Certification

  • Internal Auditor Training - ISO 19011:2018

Timeline

Food Technologist

Kyvalley Dairy Group
06.2022 - Current

Quality Assurance officer

GCMMF, AMUL, INDIA
08.2016 - 12.2021

M.Tech - Food Science and Technology

RMIT University

M.Tech - Dairy Technology

National Dairy Research Institute, India

B.Tech - Dairy Technology

National Dairy Research Institute, India

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