Anouk Guilmineau

Quality Assurance Plant Manager — Niagara Bottling, Louisville, KY (Oct 2018–Jan 2026) SQF Practitioner, HACCP Coordinator and Food Safety Program Coordinator for a six-line water and CSD facility — a consolidated role covering food safety, packaging quality, product quality and sanitation. Primary plant liaison for all third-party audits, and quality contact for brand customers including Aquafina, Dasani, Talking Rain, Member's Mark and Kirkland, where requirements diverge by customer. Commissioned six production lines from the ground up and built the QA lab from scratch; the framework was adopted across new Niagara sites. First pilot site for the network-wide Ignition paperless QA rollout. Owned the sanitation and microbiological programs end to end, prerequisite and GMP reviews, and root cause investigation and CAPA for every deviation and customer complaint. Managed QA budgeting, purchasing and lab inventory. Built the plant QA dashboard consolidating shift accountability, missed checks, OOS tracking and KPI impact. Authored a QA handbook simplifying SOPs for operators, adopted as a standard reference across all Niagara sites. Drove plant QA culture through weekly plant-led regional calls for cross-site best-practice sharing, monthly QA leadership meetings, weekly pre-shift QA topics, and floor engagement programs — QA Derby, QA Reindeer Run, QA Niagara Rumble — to move the plant from compliance to ownership.

SQF Practitioner SQF Internal Auditor PCQI — Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (FSPCA) HACCP Certified IBWA Certified Plant Operator (CPO) FSPCA Intentional Adulteration: Conducting Vulnerability Assessments Food Defense Plan Preparation and Reanalysis Identification and Explanation of Mitigation Strategies FDA Food Defense Purdue Better Process Control School Six Sigma B.S. Food Science and Industry, Minor in Marketing — Kansas State University, 2025, Magna Cum Laude Languages: English and French (fluent)