Lesedi Lesejane

RFG Ready Meals Gauteng-Manufacturer of chilled ready meals (family meals, Italian range,

Deli Snacks, Global meals and supplies Plant Powered Protein lines chilled and frozen). Raw material: variety of ambient, chilled and frozen raw material. Local and imported, from dry ingredients like starch, H50 flour, OO flour,

Spices, Wines, Oil, Milk, Cream, Prawns, Tuna, Beef, Pork, Chicken, Herbs, Vegetables and different cheese types.

Customer: Woolworths

• Monitoring and managing of QC monitors and their respective duties
• Verifying completed QC and production records and ensuring that corrective action is implemented for all raised nonconformance reported in QC records
• Food safety training (Induction, quality awareness, foreign object exclusion, cleaning SOP, allergen management, CCP, receiving procedure, traceability procedure, Listeria management and other factory SOPs)
• Maintain quality control of products and cleanliness
• Upgrading and maintaining documentation for designated product categories on Shop ware PMI online system and technical system
• Troubleshooting on miscellaneous technical issues in plant
• Taste panel and addressing issues pertaining to particular lines
• Ensuring that all received raw material have COA, micro sampling as per Raw material micro schedule and ensuring that raw material intake specifications are compiled for all raw material. Raising NCR for all supplier non-conformances, follow ups and trending supplier NCR.
• Maintain and upgrade traceability and highlighting deviations from agreed system
• Conduct traceability studies requested by raw material suppliers, traceability on raw material and packaging requested during audits, monthly traceability study and biannual WW mock recall and annual RSPO traceability
• Initiate remedial, corrective and preventative action when required and for internal and external audits
• Ensure that Woolworths samples are sent as per WW sample schedule
• Investigate customer complaints, RTV and Woolworths feedback on weekly samples
• Product process audits on relevant lines and problem solving
• Monitor weekly deep cleaning and ensure environmental swabs are done as per micro schedule
• Ensure adherence to allergen management and DNA species handling/segregation
• Review micro results, investigate and complete raised micro-NCR
• Conduct trials on new raw material and alternative raw material and compiling reports
• Loading WW product specification on WW FPI system
• Conduct monthly GMP & Foreign object audits, glass & hard plastic audits and compiling quarterly supplier NCR report
• Take part in factory trials
• Raising NCR for non-conformances and closing out audit findings (Internal systems audit, NRCS, WW IBL PPC, WW Hygiene audit, RSPO audit, FSSC audit)
• Site pest control officer and overseeing hygiene department with 1 Hygiene supervisor
• Ensuring that all measuring devices/equipment are calibrated and in good working order and updating measuring devices register
• Providing information for management review and food safety for areas of responsibility
• CCP Verification and validation, updating HACCP flows for designated lines and part of VACCP & TACCP review

Responsible for the entire Cake and Frozen department & Christmas line. 2nd stint responsible for the Bread and Frozen department

• Conduct scheduled mock recalls
• Supervising 8 Quality Controllers and their respective duties
• Train all staff on quality awareness, personnel and factory hygiene, foreign object exclusion, allergen exclusion, glass breakage, CCP points, cleaning practices, mock recalls and induction
• Ensure that all manufacturing and processing standards are up to date, issued and displayed
• Investigate any issues pertaining to assigned lines
• Take part in daily taste panels and address any issues pertaining to particular lines and organizing taste panels for factory trials and determining product shelf life for new products
• Perform daily administration of quality/process control documents, instituting corrective action as required
• Maintain and upgrade traceability system in factory and highlight any deviations from agreed system
• Ensure that Woolworths QC samples are collected and send according to Woolworths QC schedule
• Investigate customer complaints, RTV and Woolworths feedback on weekly QC samples
• Communicate all complaints to QC monitors and respective Supervisors and Managers via Q-pulse, investigation report and weekly QC meetings
• Undertake any trial requested by Woolworths and new product trial runs with NPD
• Up-grading and maintaining documentation for particular lines and HACCP reviews on all new products
• Process audits on relevant lines as required in problem-solving process and compiling report
• Verifying final Artwork brief for packaging and signing off
• Loading product specification onto Woolworths FPI System
• Trending customer complaints, foreign objects, daily over and under massing
• Collecting products and taking swabs for microbial testing
• Review microbiology results on weekly basis and follow up on out of specification results
• Compiling weekly quality report
• Communicate concerns and action plans to relevant factory personnel and monitor their input in carrying out corrective action
• Conduct audits according to internal audit schedule that covers factory’s ISO 22000 PRPs, SOPs and Woolworths Code Of Practice
• Maintain cleaning standards as per Woolworths code of practice
• Ensure that all employees, visitors and contractors are suitably attired with correct protective gear
• Maintain pest sighting log in production and packing departments and take corrective action as required
• Ordering of technical/quality consumable
• Act on QA manager’s behalf in absentia

BRM Brands- manufacturer of sauces, marinated Pork, Beef, Lamb ribs, Roasts, Pulled range and Poultry products and supplies retails (WW, Pick n Pay, and Spar), restaurants and food services. Final product is either frozen or chilled. BRM Brands uses liquid and dry ingredients like spices, herbs, preservatives and flavours. Packaging used is shrink bags, vacuum bags, sleeve, boxes and labels.

• Dealt with specifications for raw material, in process specification, final product specification and packaging specification
• Requesting raw material and packaging specifications from suppliers and ensuring that all specifications have required information and signed off and saved
• Compiling in-process specifications and product information sheets for all BRM final products.
• Compiling QAS for Woolworths final products and 4P for new products
• Loading product specification on Woolworths Pathfinder and approved QAS on Woolworths TQM
• Conducting organoleptic shelf-life evaluation, sending final product for shelf-life micro testing and nutritional information for new products
• Ensuring that all new products have raw material specifications, packaging specifications, QAS/PIS, shelf life (Microbiology and Organoleptic) evaluation, Nutritional information and HACCP process flow
• Ensuring that Daily sensory evaluation is conducted and requesting CAR for out of specification product
• Conducting factory trials, compiling factory trial reports and ensuring that new products are done according to specification
• Conducting process verifications, raising CAR for findings and look for ways to improve process
• Conducting internal Pest control audits and PRP audits for BRM Mostyn Park and BRM Honeydew as per Internal audit schedule
• Training production and QA staff on new products
• Supplier visits and compiling supplier visit reports
• Part of interview panel for junior Quality positions
• Adhoc projects

Vector Logistics- Stores and distributes ambient products [sauces, dry and liquid ingredients, packaging (sleeves, labels)], chilled products (chicken) and frozen products (frozen vegetables, red meat, sea food, chicken).

• Assisted with internal and external audits to confirm compliance with applicable laws and regulations (monthly GDP audits and transport audits)
• Ensure that monthly food safety meetings and relevant appointments (food safety and recall team) are done
• Ensure compliance to Food Safety, Customer Requirements (YUM, Burger King, Nando's, McCain, Woolworths, I&J, Pick n Pay, Nature Garden etc.), and R638, ZA Approval, PPECB
• Ensure that annual Management review, HACCP review, biannual Internal YUM audit and annual ISO 22000 internal compliance audit is conducted
• Ensure that Batch profiles, product withdrawals are submitted on time and internal Mock recalls are done as per schedule and as per customer requirements
• Represent company during internal and external audits
• Implemented improvement initiatives and developed compliance testing program to monitor and identify gaps in new and existing practices.
• Communicate with outsourced service providers (Waste management, Cleaning, Pest control
• Collaborated with internal and external stakeholders, auditors and legal counsel to confirm compliance with applicable laws and regulations (SABS and Aspirata auditors)
• Conduct adhoc Sweeper inspections
• Conduct internal ISO 22000 system compliance audit and YUM internal audits at other Vector Logistics regions
• Training staff on food safety (GDP, Food security, Glass & hard plastic, Receiving & loading)
• Managed practical action plans to respond to audit discoveries and ensured timely submission

• Refer to RCL Foods Consumer -2nd stint

• Followed programme for interns