Anthony Gali

Experience

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  شركة المراعي

  Jan 2012 - Oct 2013

  Hygiene Team Manager

  • Oversee the Hygiene/ Sanitation team and ensure that their performance complies with the cleaning standards of Almarai and SASO.• Maintain the hygiene and sanitation standards throughout the factory.• Manage and implement the usage of dry and wet cleaning equipment and safe usage of chemicals and ensuring all the hygiene operatives all wearing complete personal protective equipment (PPE).• Implementing strict adherence to Food Safety Work Authorization System and Food Safety Protocols.• Implementation of training of all the hygiene operatives to complete task according to Standard Sanitation Operating Procedures and ensure that these are carried out to the required standards.• Checking the inventory of chemicals, cleaning tools, equipment and manpower requirements on regular basis and proving accurate records to the Site Quality Assurance Manager.• Escalating hygiene issues to the immediate supervisor and implementing proper corrective action.• Developing training programs, when any new chemical or equipment is being used and make the hygiene staff understand the safe usage of the chemicals and protective equipment during the operation.• Check the food contact surfaces and equipment after the cleaning (Pre-Operative Hygiene checks) and inform the hygiene team leader to clean the surface if the cleaning was found un-satisfactory.• Collecting Hygiene Swabs to check the effectiveness of the cleaning program.• Collect data from the Laboratory on Swab results and focus of equipment or food contact surfaces, which fail to comply with the company’s requirement and communicate to hygiene team to emphasize on the areas during the regular Hygiene team meetings. Show less

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  One Harvest

  Oct 2013 - Jul 2015

  Hygiene Team Leader

  • Managing the daily Hygiene and GMP requirements in the plant.• Management of costs, manpower requirement and also overtime control in the team.• Training new staff on chemical safety and handling, chemical usage and disposal and also team safety via classroom and hands on training modules.• Liaising with chemical suppliers regarding improving the hygiene levels in the plant and also controlling the Listeria on food contact surfaces.• Developing Hygiene technical SOP’s and daily check sheets and training the team to make them understand the requirements.• Assist technical team with WQA, COLES, BRC audits as well as internal audits.• Ensuring all the records are maintained properly and audit the records on monthly basis to identify any backlogs in the records and train the team against it.• Adhering to the safety requirement of the plant and reporting any OHS incidents to the line manager as well as site HR manager to resolve issues and prevent future occurrences.Technical Expertise:• Trained in cleaning fresh cuts (salad) machines which include K6 slicer, Diversicut Tureeti, NON salad baths and spinner and ISHIDA multi head packing machines.• Trained in Cleaning Beetroot processing equipment from G’s UK.• Trained in Cleaning retort equipment from STERIFLOWAchievement:• Designed hygiene SOP’s for the new Beetroot production project and trained team on hygiene and GMP of the new equipment for beetroot processing.• Coordinated and assisted technical team with hygiene manuals for the WQA, BRC audit, and assisted in commissioning of the new project.• Improved the team structure by identifying key players in the team and uprising them to improve their contribution thus improving the productivity of the team by 60%.• Improved the Training matrix and developed new training programs for the team to improve accuracy of cleaning and thus reducing non-compliance to 95% in internal and external audits.• 100% compliance to hygiene team in the WQA audits. Show less

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  Teys Australia

  Jul 2015 - Dec 2015

  Cleaning Manager

  • Ensure that the cleaning of the plant is efficiently carried out each evening to pre-operational and bacteriological standards and tasks are undertaken in accordance with the QA program. • Liaise with the QA Manager, Plant Manager, Contractor ad AQIS staff on cleaning and hygiene issues, identify deficiencies and implement remedial action. • Analyse testing results, communicate them to staff and contractors and recommend measures to overcome deficiencies. • Ensure material and chemical wastage is absolutely minimized. • Maintain productive relationships with suppliers and contractors and recommend improvements to them and senior management. • Ensure plant surrounds are maintained in a clean and tidy condition. • Ensure OHS rules are followed by the staff and conduct regular safety audits and checks employees PPE’s and chemical awareness training is conducted with all the staff. Show less

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  Perfection Fresh Australia

  Dec 2016 - Jul 2019

  • Conduct export compliance checks on fresh produce as per importing countries (China, Korea and Japan) protocols and NPPO (International Plant protection convention) requirements.• To safe guard and protection the Australian Quarantine and bio security requirements by auditing the premises of export for any prohibited pest risk. • Ensuring the treatment and validation of treatment of fresh produce is conducted as per importing countries protocol.• Conduct label, flow path, quality, hygiene and quarantine requirements as per departmental guidelines. • Validate the vapour heat treatment process and calibration of probes.• Complete departmental paperwork and inspect the final product to be issued a phytosanitary certificate and export permit by DAWR.• Check the treatment records and supporting paperwork to be documented and uploaded on department hub.• Ensure the daily hygiene and pest control checks are conducted to ensure export compliance as per phytosanitary requirements. Show less • QA support function for regional sites: Brisbane, Bundaberg, Gatton• Train, manage and undertake QA assessments against specifications• Manage and update customer and supplier specifications• Communicate compliance across the business supply chain where required• Training and monitoring the Site QC staff to ensure quality of product produced on site• Training and monitoring GMP, HACCP and QA to drive continuous improvement.• Provide support to the category team as required• Improve Supplier feedback process• Support Category team and Quality Manager on supplier site visits• Maintain and update the Quality System procedures, forms and records• Monitor production to ensure compliance with all product safety and quality standards• Carry out sampling and testing assessments as per Quality Systems• Conduct internal audits for sites and growers as required by the Quality Systems• Complete timely investigations and responses for customers and suppliers• Contact Suppliers as required to manage Approved Supplier Program• Business reporting and trending for quality aspects• Coordinating and managing third-party quality contractors• Support weekend and public holiday QA requirements• Supporting any QA/business projects and initiatives Show less

  • Supply/Export Technical and Compliance manager

    Jan 2018 - Jul 2019

  • Quality Assurance Coordinator

    Dec 2016 - Dec 2017
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  Kraft Heinz

  Jul 2019 - now

  • Responsible for maintaining site critical standards of cleaning & sanitation, environmental microbial swabbing program and pest control.• Ensure site follows the periodic cleaning and sanitation schedule as required.• Monitoring of environmental swabbing including pathogen swabs schedule and monitoring the ATP swabs for non-compliances and ensue corrective actions during any breaches of critical limits.• Regular communication via monthly performance review to core FSQ and operations team of the site performance to ensure all cleaning tasks are managed and preventive actions during any micro detection.• Conducting regular GEMBA walks ensuring the site follows the Q-RMP (internal standards), SQF and 5s rules and reporting any findings during daily, weekly and monthly review to respective team.• Review the SOWI (Sanitation operators work instruction) regularly to ensure its current and up to date with regards to safety, chemistry and ways of working.• Train staff of basic chemical safety and basic CIP operations to ensure staff understands the process and safety regulations. Conduct regular CIP validations and verification across the beverage line CIP systems to ensure compliance to requirements.• Liaise with chemical supplier partner (ECOLAB) to conduct regular SOWI audits and chemical dispensing system verification to ensure compliance.• Maintain site chemical register and ensure the chemical storage levels are maintained.• Ensure regular pest control visits are getting conducted by pest control service provider and pest sighting register is maintained and reported.• Conducting monthly review of the site pest control service reports and corrective actions taken if any spike in pest activity is detected.Achievements:• Successfully completed Lean six sigma Green belt project with DMAIC model frame work to reduce excess labor usage. Project saving projections was at $38,500 USD saving per year in one production unit. Show less

  • ANZ Sanitation Lead

    May 2021 - now

  • Food Safety and Quality Specialist

    Jul 2019 - now