Brussels Metropolitan Area
Supplier Quality Development for Dairy products used for the production of babyfood. Training suppliers in food safety and requirements in the babyfood industry. Auditing dairy suppliers to high quallity standards for the most sensitive consumers. Creating and verification of standards ensuring food safety and compliance to regulations. Developing KPIs on quality with suppliers to ensure product quality. Driving CAPA projects together with suppliers to improve processes aiming on customer satisfaction.
- Lead and conducted internal audits for all cocoa & chocolate manufacturing sites globally to ensure compliance with internal & external quality expectations. - Defined global procedures and quality expectations to set internal standards with incorporating regulatory and customer requirements. - Developed and evaluating quality systems to assist in the audit process with elaborating risk assessments, guidelines and work instructions. - Supported regional and local quality directors in the management and preparation of internal and external audits. - Trained of internal auditors and QA managers globally for auditing suppliers in several food and non-food categories. - Introduced quality processing expectations and auditing systems for suppliers. - Creation of specifications, audit questionnaires, checklists for suppliers and customers. - Participated in teams to drive continuous improvement projects, follow-up of outstanding corrective actions and non-conformances from previous audits for external and internal manufacturers. - Harmonisation and evaluation of safety systems, introducing quality procedures, coordinating actions to resolve major quality issues such as microbiological and foreign body contamination. - Technical evaluation of validation studies in heat processes to ensure legal and customer demands.
- Developed management tools to audit suppliers and internal departments in several food categories. - Established risk assessments to eliminate and reduce hazards for personnel, the environment and in the process. - Validation of critical processes and assessing scientific knowledge to discuss technological advances in production.
Operational work in the production process of detergents and bleaching substances.
Vocational education: Chemikant at Degussa AG Marl (now: Evonik). Included theoretical and practical education in chemistry, physics, biology, process engineering and industrial applications.