
Ziad Mostafa Mahmoud
Central Quality Assurance and Food safety Head at الضحي للصناعات الغذائيه
6th of October, Giza, EgyptWork Experience
Quality Control and labs operation ManagerFull Time
Green Hope ( Canning and Food Industry )
Nov 2024 - Present -7 months
Egypt , Monufya
- Job Details:. 1-Develop and implement strategies for improving Quality and laboratory performance, meeting production goals, and achieving quality standards. 2-Oversee and manage the budget for lab operations and QC activities, ensuring cost-effective resource allocation and the minimization of waste. 3-Leading and motivating the QC and lab teams, fostering a culture of quality, accountability, and continuous improvement. 3-Develop and Implement QC Procedures. 4-Monitor Product Quality and controlling process violation. 5-Ensure compliance with internal quality standards, as well as external regulatory standards (e.g., ISO, FDA, BRC,USDA,NFSA,FSSC). 6-Identify any quality issues and initiate corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) to resolve problems and prevent future occurrences. 7-Oversee inspection and testing of materials, components, and finished products, ensuring that all results are documented and analyzed. 8-Oversee the daily operations of the laboratory, including equipment maintenance, inventory management, and ensuring proper storage and handling of materials. 9-Investigate any deviations in quality or lab processes, identifying root causes and implementing corrective actions to resolve issues. 10-Collaborate with R&D, production, and other departments to improve product design, testing methods, and production processes to enhance overall quality. 11-Ensure that the final products meet customer expectations by performing ongoing testing, reviewing production processes, and managing customer returns related to quality issues.
Central Quality Assurance and Food safety HeadFull Time
الضحي للصناعات الغذائيه
Oct 2022 - Present -2 yrs, 8 months
Egypt , Sharqia
- Job Details:• Drives corporate food safety strategy at the project level to mitigate food safety risk through Implementation of the field level risk based food safety preventive controls program. • Make sure that the site is compatible with the standards of NFSA, ISO9001 and ISO22000. • Lead the group to be complied with the NFSA standard and included the group in a White list. • Preparing annual plan of internal and external analysis to the raw materials and final products. • Developing and improving the quality control performance from receiving of raw materials till producing the final products for assuring the final products met and complied with the specifications and achieved the customer satisfactions. • Developing instructions and rules in the area of food safety within the operating company. • Oversees the implementation of the requirements, policies, procedures, programs and training components of the food safety system. • Leading product recall communications, regulatory inspections and for interaction with vendors on issues related to food safety. • Lead the Food safety team and ensure HACCP system and the needed preventive controls. • Drive the verification and validation program. • Support tracking and communicating the quality assurance, quality control and Food Safety Key Performance Indicators and working with project team stakeholders to seek continuous improvement in KPIs. • Improving and developing the food safety culture. • Reviewing, updating and sending the results of the KPI’S on monthly basis. • Develop, review the site documentation and the SOP’s. • Responsible for Organizing and preparing the Annual CAPEX and OPEX budget. • Responsible for participating in the new projects related to new lines installation and also in case of projects Related to any modification in the infrastructures for adding my inputs from the view of quality and food safety. • Sharing the inputs and the insight of the food safety program with the R&D team in the new products innovation projects.
Quality Assurance HeadFull Time
Rich Bake ( Bakeries )
Aug 2018 - Sep 2022 -4 yrs, 1 month
Egypt , Monufya
- Job Details:• Make sure that the site is compatible with the SQMS, YUM, BRC, NFSA, ISO9001 and ISO22000. • Ensures action plans are in place and follow up on agreed on CAPAs is performed. • Sending the results of the KPI’S on monthly basis. • Develop, reviewing the site documentation and the SOP’s. • Responsible for Organizing and preparing the CAPEX and OPEX. • Responsible For participating in the new projects related to new lines installation and also in case of projects related to any modification in the infrastructures for adding my inputs from the view Of quality and food safety. • Lead the Food safety team and program to ensure HACCP system and the needed preventive controls. • Creating and Releasing the PRs for the needed items by using the Oracle system. • Lead external suppliers’ qualification process. • Manages all critical quality issues (complaints, recall, etc.) according to quality agreement. • Review and process of GMP auditing and documentation. • Follow-up action plan developed from internal and external oversight. • Integrated Pest Management Task Leader and Managing the Pests Control Contractor. • Ensures product safety, regulatory compliance with company standards as stated in the QA manual. • Drives continuous improvement efforts in product quality /performance and process optimization. • Provides leadership in coaching, education and training of management staff and Plant employees for quality assurance and food safety. • Ensures that proper sanitation procedures are utilized and that adequate sanitation Tests are performed and provides troubleshooting efforts in the event of sanitation system failure.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Food processing
Cairo University (CU)Jan 2010
Bachelor's Degree in Food processing
Cairo University (CU)Jan 2006 - Jan 2010 - 4 yr
Achievements
1.Successful Qualifying and including Eldoha groups in a White list and complied with the NFSA standard in july2023. 2.Led Kaizen Project in Eldoha group and succeed to save more than 1,000,000 Egyptian pound. 3.Qualifying Eldoha groups to be complied with the standard of FSSC v6. 4. Succeeded to reduce the customer complains percentage by 80%. 5.Supporting marketing team in opening new markets including B2B & B2C markets. 6.Leading the organization by setting of strategic plan contains the improvement and development of the business by using the tools of total quality management and also the methodology of lean six sigma for development and saving costs% and supporting to eliminate and reduce the waste%. 7.Developing and improving instruction in the area of food safety within the operating company. 8.Supporting projects team and sharing Fs insights and recommendations during the startup of the new Rice plant in Mansoura city, and leading the process of the food safety management
Skills
Languages
Arabic
FluentEnglish
Advanced
Training & Certifications
ISO22000:2018 lead Auditor
Acerta·2021SQMS standard
Macdonalds·2019FSSC standard
SGS·2019BRC
SGS·2018ISO9001
Intertech·2018ISO 22000
Intertech·2018Food defense
SGS·2017