Mammen Thomas
Palmerston North,MWT
Summary
Environmental professional with 8+ years’ experience in site inspections, resource consent monitoring, environmental audits, farm inspections and sustainability certifications. Skilled in environmental management processes, regulatory compliance, data reporting, and working across multiple sites to improve environmental performance.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Consents Monitoring Officer
Horizons Regional Council
10.2021 - Current
- Conduct compliance monitoring of resource consents under the Resource Management Act, including site inspections, environmental sampling, and data reporting.
- Ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and take appropriate enforcement action when required including field inspection and evidence collection.
- Evaluating the data and determining compliance with requirements of the consents.
- Manage environmental incidents and coordinate with internal teams and external stakeholders to ensure timely resolution.
- Utilize Microsoft tools for environmental monitoring, reporting, and data analysis.
- Handling the complaints and concern from member of public with regard to the environmental issue.
- Working as a Pollution Response Duty Officer, undertaking on 24 hour on-call duties on scheduled roster.
- Developed comprehensive reports summarizing findings from environmental monitoring activities for stakeholder review.
Quality Lead and Compliance Officer
Kaiaponi Farms
02.2021 - 10.2021
- Carried out assessments and annual audits for producers and the packhouse, ensuring adherence to BRC, GAP, and other sustainability-focused quality assurance programmes.
- Led and monitored compliance with export market requirements, integrating environmental and sustainability principles into quality systems.
- Coordinated and executed fruit maturity tests, microbial swab testing, pressure tests, and pest identification as part of environmental monitoring programmes.
- Performed quality analysis of fruit in the packhouse to meet market and regulatory standards.
- Maintained accurate documentation and verification of records, supporting transparent reporting for sustainability and compliance audits.
- Supervised export and reject grades, ensuring continuous improvement in product quality and process efficiency.
- Achieved pest identification badges, enhancing biosecurity and monitoring capabilities.
- Planned and scheduled audits across multiple sites, managing stakeholder communications and onsite inspections to ensure corrective actions were implemented and verified.
Phytosanitary/Crop Inspector
AsureQuality
11.2019 - 01.2021
- Contracted by AsureQuality for two consecutive seasons, successfully delivering phytosanitary audits and inspections in line with MPI protocols.
- Achieved MPI approval for disease inspection and conducted inspections for diseases, weeds, and nematodes on behalf of MPI across more than 200 vegetable farms.
- Carried out phytosanitary audits among the growers of various seed companies in New Zealand.
- Farm inspections based on the standard requirement.
- Experience in extensive travel and working with the rural regions.
- Conducted Plant Varietal Rights (harvesting and measuring) for breeders.
- Contract role for two consecutive summer seasons
- Maintained up-to-date inspection and audit records for improved reporting and analysis.
Lead Auditor / Agricultural Inspector
INDOCERT, India
07.2015 - 01.2019
- Conducted numerous inspection by evaluating and assessing the management system, product traceability, biodiversity management and conservation, food safety, health and safety of workforce, working conditions and workers’ rights, natural resource conservation by onsite verifications, interviews, document reviews, etc.
- National and international experience by conducting more than 240 audits among the farms, factories and other traders.
- Worked as an expert in auditing service notably in the interpretations of standards, policies and protocols.
- Expertise in quality assurance, organic and other sustainable certification program including GAP.
- Inspections conducted for Organic (NPOP, NOP & EU), Rainforest Alliance, Trustea, UTZ, Castor Code and UEBT standards.
- Awareness on HACCP and experience in conducting internal and external audits.
- Verified the process flow and standard operating procedures in primary food industries to ensure protection of integrity and safety of the product.
- Knowledge on the quality compliance requirement of processing centres, purchase requirement, quantity procured from suppliers, transaction certificates, traceability, labelling requirement and stock verification.
- ISO 22000:2005 FSMS Lead Auditor, Certified in 2014
Education
Master of Management - Agribusiness
Lincoln University
07.2020
Bachelors - Horticulture
Tamil Nadu Agriculture University
07.2015
Certification
- ISO 22000:2005 FSMS Lead Auditor, certification (2014)
- Inspector Workshop (NZTA)
- Basic Investigative Skills
- RPAS drone course
- Comprehensive First Aid
- National Emergency Management Agency- Intermediate
- Entry Level Light Four Wheel Drive
- Principle and Trends in Wastewater Treatment
Timeline
Consents Monitoring Officer
Horizons Regional Council
10.2021 - Current
Quality Lead and Compliance Officer
Kaiaponi Farms
02.2021 - 10.2021
Phytosanitary/Crop Inspector
AsureQuality
11.2019 - 01.2021
Lead Auditor / Agricultural Inspector
INDOCERT, India
07.2015 - 01.2019
Bachelors - Horticulture
Tamil Nadu Agriculture University
Master of Management - Agribusiness
Lincoln University