Praveen Kumar Dasari

Food Safety and Quality:

• Ensure CCPs and other quality checks and filter checks are carried out timely and are recorded.
• Ensure packing and intermediate product traceability paper work are completed accurately.
• Enter NCPs, pest sightings, bag and tag, packaging materials/raw material issues, metal detector investigations in data base(Beacon).
• Assist in signing off production records and associated documentation reviews (routine paper works and SOPs).
• Follow allergen, glass/hard plastic, metal procedures.
• Complete routine brittle material and GMP checks and inspection.
• Ensure all slurry certificate of analysis (COA) are with in specifications and recorded.
• Identify and rectify and/or report if lab blend analysis is not within standards and quality specifications.
• Record lab test related traceability information.
• Carry out Marmite technical lab cleanings to the required standard.
• Ensure HACCP procedures are followed.

Production:

• Plan and schedule yeast tanker and raw materials(i.e., crumbly yeast)
• Conduct yeast slurry analysis and prepare recipes
• Complete marmite intermediate product drum sample analysis as per procedure to record Water activity, pH, Salt, Moisture and Viscosity. Record them in the SAP database and generate blends.
• Conduct lab blend analysis (temperature, viscosity, moisture, salt, aW and pH). Ensure vitamins are added to the blends and Sensory analysis is passed for packing.
• Print required traceability paperwork as per production schedule for both packing and yeast extract plant.
• Assist in planning routine maintenance and shutdown tasks along with Team leader
• Ensure required quantities of raw materials stock and non stock items are maintained. Order chemicals and consumables.
• Generate payment advises for slurry deliveries. Print labels and send out COA to vendors for bulk product.
• Ensure lab equipment are calibrated in preparing blend standards and other lab checks and validations.
• Assist R&D to ensure effective introduction of new products and processes.
• Participate in training programs as required, including refresher trainings.

• Organizing and planning work schedule for staff
• Plan, formulate and implement purchasing policies and marketing policies
• Stock control and ordering the consumable products
• Keeping records of the financial transactions for the higher management
• Thorough healthy and safety, security checks, enforcement and ensuring compliance
• Selection, supervising and evaluating the staff
• Ordering the machinery, equipment and supplies for operation.

• Manage and monitor seed processing
• Collect and analyze production data of seed processing and quality control to identify areas for improvement of various attributes likes of quality, size and purity
• Identify key factors in field production to optimize seed processing objectives
• Timely compliance with process documentation, including established process metrics, data tracking and entry into company databases
• Coordinate the inventory and order of the seed in storeroom
• Coordinate the purchase of the necessary materials for the processing of seeds.

• Operating and maintaining seed conditioning equipment including a gravity separator, a fanning mill and an optical sorter
• Operate and maintain seed treating equipment
• Packaging seeds as required by customer sales orders and making sure it is properly labelled and maintain shipping documents
• Sampling of incoming and outgoing products for the sake of lab testing to ensure quality.