technical and Operations Manager

• Laboratory/ Quality Management • Production Management • GMP/GLP Management • Research and Development • Technical support/ sales/ marketing • QA/QC Management

• Indispensible knowledge of research, product development, QC/QA, ISO series, GMP/GLP and laboratory management
• Good appreciation of administrative functions adheres to laid out procedures guided by principles and professional ethics.
• Excellent analytical, decision making and problem solving skills
• Highly experienced in scale analysis
• Process developments and improvements projects
• Assist in conducting training, audits, inspections in TQM, SHE, GMP
• Development of products, packaging and product rebranding i.e. Philgood
• Management of all operations and assets
• QMS, cGMP internal and supplier auditing and coordination
• Development of cost effective production process and implementation
• Designing raw materials and products specifications
• Perform trials on production processes, research, regional and global developmental projects
• Stability studies and registration of products
• Ensuring proper SOP’s management and documentation review
• Stability studies and registration of products
• Development of new products, analytical methods and manufacturing processes, their validation and documentation.
• Providing consultative support on quality related issues and reformulations of pesticides and specialty chemicals
• Manufacturing of R and D trail batches and production pilot batches
• Data quality reviewing and study reports writing.
• Calibration of lab instruments, equipment and validation of process and analytical test methods
• Generation, updating and reviewing of quality assurance documents
• Ensuring cGMP compliance in all processes and documentation
• Water quality management of boiler, process and cooling waters
• Metal treatment chemicals analysis
• Development and launching of new products including raw materials and processed chemicals.Market research and development
• Advising the Procured Chemicals Division (PCD) on market developments and sell of raw materials
• Conducting Health and safety awareness training to internal and external customers and factory employees
• Assist with technical support to customers on product knowledge handling and applications.
• Providing technical back up to other departments
• Implementation and documentation of ISO 9001:2000 QMS
• Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and Enterprise Resource Planning using SAGE 200

BSc (Hons) Chemical Technology (2.1 class) 2003-2006 Midlands State University
3 A-levels - Hatfield High School, Harare
8 O-levels including Maths and English- Highfield High school, Harare

Instrumentation

• Experience in the use and trouble shooting of UV-VIS (Shimadzu), FTIR (Shimadzu), HPLC, AAS, GC/GLC, melting point apparatus, Refactometers, Viscometers, pH and conductivity meters, Impact testers, moisture analysers, X-ray Fluorescence analysers, Flash point testers, Mass Spectrometry
Achievements

• Member of the Household and Personal Product Industry Team (HAPPI).
• Produced Sodium TriPolyPhosphate (STTP) using Novel methodology for import substitution
• Synthesized an alizarin assistant for use in banking and textile industry.
• Synthesized biodiesel from waste vegetable oil and process optimization