Noko Sophy Mosehlana

1. Regulatory Compliance

Ensuring adherence to Good

Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Good

Agricultural and Collection Practices (GACP), and Good Distribution Practices (GDP).

• Maintaining compliance with local

health authorities and cannabis-specific regulations.

• Preparing for and managing regulatory

inspections.

2. Quality Control & Testing Oversight

• Overseeing laboratory testing for potency (THC, CBD levels), contaminants (pesticides, heavy metals, mold, bacteria), and other safety parameters.

Ensuring correct sampling, testing, and

release of raw materials and finished products.

3. Documentation & Record Keeping

Managing Standard Operating

Procedures (SOPs), batch records, deviation reports, and change controls.

• Maintaining proper documentation to

ensure traceability from cultivation to final product.

4. Auditing & Continuous Improvement

• Conducting internal audits and supplier

audits to ensure quality standards.

• Identifying non-conformities and

implementing corrective and preventive actions (CAPAS).

• Training employees on quality and

regulatory requirements.

5. Product Safety & Risk Management

• Investigating customer complaints,

adverse events, and product recalls.

Conducting risk assessments to ensure

patient safety.

• Conducted daily inspections of meat products to ensure compliance with food safety, hygiene, and export standards.
• Monitored cold chain processes, temperature control, and storage to maintain product quality and freshness.
• Verified product labeling, packaging, and export documentation in line with internal and external compliance requirements.
• Assisted in preparing for internal and external audits, ensuring full adherence to PPECB, DAFF, and export regulations.
• Identified and reported non-conformances, recommending corrective actions and continuous improvement measures.
• Worked closely with operations and logistics teams to maintain high service delivery standards.
• Promoted accountability and teamwork to meet production and inspection targets within a high-pressure environment.

Initiate the validation of lab equipment and monitoring there off (arranging monthly and annual calibration).
• Arranging for samples to be sent to external labs for verification.
Ensure that tests used are up to date and
properly managed.
• Troubleshoot equipment malfunctions and engage with relevant service providers.
• Daily analysis of raw materials and final products, capture and reporting of results.
• Manage the availability of consumables for the Laboratory.
• Record and compile weekly and monthly laboratory reports.
• Manage waste storage and collection.
Health and Safety
• Issuing required PPE to production personnel
• Issuing safety permits to production personnel.
• Monitor, report and make
recommendations on the requirements applicable to permit to work systems in a working environment

•Determined the failure rate in vacuum packed beef primal in terms of pack integrity using the Ishikawa and Pareto models and ascertained the cost implications thereof.

• Determined the metal threshold for beef.
•Formulated a low budget beef patty from
brief to a market sample and conducted sensory evaluations for this product.
• Conducted an experiment on tallow on behalf of a farm.
•Planned dispatch activity based on customer orders and truck availability, arranged for all logistics based on veterinary and quality regulations and standards, and ensured that controls were in place to minimize pilferage, enabled stock control and satisfied logistics requirements and regulations.
•Identified a department which was losing
productivity and aided it into increased productivity using 6 Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen and Kanban principles.
• Drew a blueprint of a department to determine manning levels and task adequacy.
• Worked on the dynamics of stock control and stock movements and production reporting and accountability.