Taniya Kapoor
Ludhiana, Punjab
Summary
Food Safety Professional certified with FSSC 22000 Lead auditor and FOSTAC certification in advanced manufacturing and catering.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
HYGIENE EXECUTIVE
Radisson Blu Hotel
Ludhiana
09.2022 - Current
- ROLES& RESPONSIBILITIES
- Conducted comprehensive inspections of hotel outlets and cafeteria to ensure compliance with statutory law and international standards in food safety.
- Monitor health and hygiene standards of staff working in the production and service areas.
- Coordinate with kitchen stewarding in developing and maintaining standard cleaning and disinfecting procedures.
- Handles any food complaints and necessary root cause analysis for the same.
- Provides technical advice on product labeling issues to accommodate FSSAI labeling/menu labeling and allergens regulation.
- Coordinating with the engineering department to implement preventive and corrective maintenance.
- Ensure that all food and beverage employees have adequate knowledge on food safety by conducting regular trainings and workshops.
- Maintain and verify standards in all work areas, food stores, receiving, and disposable areas to adhere at all times to hygiene standards.
- Responsible for maintenance of records related to the hotel's hygiene programs, FSSAI, and ISO standards.
- Quality check during receiving of goods for food hygiene and vendor product quality to ensure the properties criteria is met.
- Vendor audits are conducted regularly to evaluate their production/storage in terms of hygiene.
- Ensuring a robust pest control program is incorporated along with the housekeeping and stewarding department.
- Responsible for creating an incident report of any food safety-related incident on the property.
- Implemented food safety management system policies and procedures.
- Collaboration with cross-functional departments to maintain food safety and hygiene standards.
- Expert in implementing ISO 22000:2018 and FSSAI guidelines on a daily basis.
- Overseeing ISO 45001:2018 (Occupational Health and Safety) implementation.
HYGIENE OFFICER
Vasantha Bhavan Hotel Pvt. Ltd
Chennai
02.2022 - 05.2022
- Maintain and verify standards in all work areas, food stores, receiving, and dispatch to adhere at all times to hygiene standards.
- Conducted comprehensive inspections of the central kitchen, food stores, and dispatch area, ensuring compliance with food safety standards.
- Ensure that all employees have adequate knowledge of food safety by conducting regular trainings.
- Responsible for maintenance of records related to the hotel's hygiene programs of 14 branches along with central kitchen.
- Quality check during receiving of goods for food hygiene and vendor product quality to ensure the properties criteria is met.
- Collaboration with cross-functional departments to maintain food safety and hygiene standards.
- Portable water tests on a daily basis to ensure the cooking water is safe to use.
- Daily hygiene checks of food transport vehicles.
- Daily temperature checks and record maintenance of food that is dispatched.
- Scheduling and maintenance of pest control records.
CAREER ADVISOR CUM ASST. PROFESSOR
Dr. M.G.R. Educational & Research Institute
Chennai
01.2021 - 03.2022
- Lesson plan development, Online classes, Online exam conduct and evaluation, seminars and workshops
Education
Master of Science - Food Technology & Management
M.O.P. Vaishnav College For Women
Chennai01-2020
Bachelor of Science - B.Sc. Food Science & Management
M.O.P. Vaishnav College For Women
Chennai01-2018
HSC (Biology With Maths Stream) - 84%
D.A.V. Higher Secondary School
Chennai01-2015
Internships & Trainings -
INTERNSHIPS
Skills
- ISO 22000: 2018 Implementation
- FSSAI Compliance and HACCP
- Hygiene audits & Internal Audits
- Team training of food safety
- ISO 45001:2018 Compliance
- Brand standard auditing
- Vendor hygiene audits
- Menu labelling compliance
- External audits for certification
- Microbiological analysis of food and water testing
- Supply chain quality checks
- Cold storage management
- FIFO Implementation
- Record verification and maintenance
- Third party laboratory liason
- Pest control planning
- Risk assessment & Root cause analysis
- External audits management
Certification
- FSSC 22000 Version 6 Lead Auditor Training Course based on ISO 22000:2018 Certified by CQI and IRCA from DNV , 2024
- Food safety supervisor - FOSTAC - Food safety Training and Certificate on Manufacturing and catering
SOFT SKILLS
Leadership skills
- Communication
- Able to work collaboratively as part of a team as well as individually
- Problem solving
- Able to multitask and manage time effectively
- Eye for detail
- Adaptability
Languages
Punjabi
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Proficient (C2)
C2
Tamil
Advanced (C1)
C1
Accomplishments
- Certificate awarded in recognition and acknowledgement of the outstanding performance during the year 2022-2023 at Radisson Blu Hotel, Ludhiana
Timeline
HYGIENE EXECUTIVE
Radisson Blu Hotel
09.2022 - Current
HYGIENE OFFICER
Vasantha Bhavan Hotel Pvt. Ltd
02.2022 - 05.2022
CAREER ADVISOR CUM ASST. PROFESSOR
Dr. M.G.R. Educational & Research Institute
01.2021 - 03.2022
Master of Science - Food Technology & Management
M.O.P. Vaishnav College For Women
Bachelor of Science - B.Sc. Food Science & Management
M.O.P. Vaishnav College For Women
HSC (Biology With Maths Stream) - 84%
D.A.V. Higher Secondary School
Internships & Trainings -
INTERNSHIPS
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