Erlea Velerdas

Experience

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  Seafare Products

  Apr 2002 - Jun 2002

  Laboratory Technician

  Técnico de calidad durante producción

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  General Mills

  Nov 2007 - now

  Food Safety & Quality as Designed (Lead):o Subject matter expert for FSQ throughout the product development process through commercialization, connecting to CORE FSQ, R&D, Supply Chain and the Business Team.o Ensures development of clear and well written specifications considering Consumer First Design and manufacturing plant capability.o Lead Product Turnover process.o Lead Quality Health Check process to assess Quality as Designedo Champion Consumer First HMM, Renovation and Innovation to ensure manufacturing capability is considered.Food Safety & Quality as Manufactured (Support):o Represent and support Plant FSQ when collaborating with Supply Chain, R&D and the Business team.o Review and approve plant trials requested by R&D. Secure trial budgets and resources for FSQ driven initiatives.o Represent plant concerns during project and product planning.o Support the Plant FSQ team during root cause analysis for critical incidents.Food Safety & Quality as Consumed (Lead):o First point of contact for consumer services in dealing with complaints, assisting the plant with root cause analysis and response back to the consumer.o Monitor product performance in the market through consumer response analysis and identify opportunities for product improvement.o Coordination of Food Safety & Quality Critical Incident responses.o Coordinate Regulatory issues in the Market to support Brand protection. Show less * Interface with Engineering and Operations to ensure transfer to Production of new products are in accordance with approved data.* Support the Quality Inspectors to ensure that products and processes comply with the relevant requirements of the quality management system.* Conduct audits, including closing out audit findings, creating audits finding reports and determine proper corrective and preventive actions.* Determines quality improvement parameters. Identifying statistical methods relevant to manufacturing processes.* Establishes statistical confidence by identifying sample size and acceptable error, determining levels of confidence.* Analyzes data by normal distribution, and process capability analysis tests.* Prepares reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data, making recommendations.* Root cause analysis and implementation of corrective action for process related concerns.* Create company quality documentation, such as quality manuals, quality procedures, etc. * Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed. Show less

  • Food Safety & Quality Product Manager EU

    Sept 2018 - now

  • Quality Engineer

    Oct 2012 - Sept 2018

  • ITQ Shared Service

    Apr 2011 - Oct 2012

  • Quality Assurance Assistant

    Nov 2007 - Apr 2011