Brenda Wangechi Maina
Food And Process Engineer
Nairobi,30
Summary
A goal-oriented professional with excellent problem-solving skills reputed for faithfulness, reliability, adaptability, with swift capacity to learn and apply new skills. Detail-oriented individual with exceptional communication and project management skills with proven ability to efficiently handle multiple tasks effectively in fast-paced environments. Recognized for taking proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues, with focus on optimizing processes for sustainability and efficiency summarily committed to leveraging these qualities to drive team success and contribute to organizational growth.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Safety and Sustainability Information Analyst
Brookside Dairy Limited
Nairobi, Nairobi
12.2024 - Current
- Conducted thorough research and reading on industry and company standards, benchmarks, and best practices to inform future strategies and initiatives around sustainability.
- Analyzed data to identify root causes of problems and recommended corrective actions thereby challenging the team to always trouble shoot not just report.
- Supported decision-making processes for better business outcomes with timely and relevant insights especially by keeping abreast of information relevant to the dairy industry and promptly relaying it via relevant channels.
- Organized information by studying, analyzing, interpreting and classifying data for ease of implementation, traceability, retrieval, tracking documentation growth and posterity in preserving it.
- Ensured compliance with all applicable regulations through meticulous record keeping and adherence to established protocols.
- Revamped the library, pioneered the library email to ease information dissemination and came up with a Read-to-Lead challenge to encourage a reading culture among staff members.
Technical Support Engineer
Brookside Dairy Limited
Nairobi, Nairobi Province
07.2024 - 11.2024
- A food and process engineer has to understand milk, milk products and all processes involved in value addition through to waste generated from operations.
- Demonstrated expertise in product knowledge and problem-solving abilities.
- Actively took part in planned preventive maintenance of major milk processing equipment including pasteurizer, sterilizer and filmatic Lala machines.
- Conducted troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and repair of daily equipment technical failures, implementing preventive measures for future occurrences
- Brought one of the machines (IMA 1) that had lay dormant for a long while back to production state.
- Earned recognition from management for consistently delivering exceptional service quality.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop solutions for recurring technical problems.
Management Trainee
Patmos Montessori School
01.2023 - 06.2024
- Fresh from school, an apprenticeship opportunity to work in a nearby school was welcome with a quest to bring permanent positive change through innovative solutions.
- Digitized the accounting system.
- Advised on how to improve the physical infrastructure sustainably using knowledge of structural engineering and environmental engineering
- Advised the management on how to reduce loans while increasing the income streams for the institution leveraging on knowledge from units such as management for engineers and operations research.
- Optimized the use of available resources for greater profitability.
- Store and record keeping.
- Brand management
- Enhancing staff and client experience needless to say that there was a marked growth both in quality of services delivery and student population from about 350 to about 500.
Engineer Trainee
Numerical Machining Complex Limited
Nairobi, Nairobi Province
07.2021 - 10.2021
- Learning and operating the vast tools used in all the workshops including lathes, presses, welding and metal fabrication tools, plasma cutting machines, CNC machines, HMC machines, laboratory equipment for testing the quality of inputs, kilns, induction furnaces, cupola furnaces, overhead cranes and forklifts among others.
- Designed the units to be produced using Inventor drawing software
- Learnt how to operate the CNC machines from formulating the product to the point of producing units such as gears, train brake pads, shafts, and couplings
- Took part in the entire value chain at the foundry including making the pattern molds, melting metal in the furnaces, operating the (Disamatic) molding machine that holds the mold blocks and ensures the formation of steel or cast-iron products
- Advising the human resource manager on how to engage the attaches and interns more effectively as well as other recommendations to the company having observed, interacted with the staff at various levels, and experienced the facility in totality.
Education
Master of Science - Food And Process Engineering
05.2023 - Current
I'm currently exploring majors on thermal process Engineering, food industry waste management, effluent treatment, product innovation, theory of flow and porous media to understand the engineering properties of food in order to create best designs of process and auxiliary machines to deliver a wide array of products.
Bachelor of Science in Environmental and Biosystems Engineering -
09.2015 - 12.2022
Classification: Second upper division
The course was divided into five main thematic areas namely Farm power and machinery, Food and process engineering, Structural Engineering, Irrigation and drainage engineering, and Environmental engineering.
As a 4th year student, the passion to translate knowledge into real-life applications propelled the innovation of an automated watering system that used locally available resources and technology to ensure 24-hour circulation which at the time was expensive to farmers as they had to purchase powerful pumps while the final year design project was the first of its kind in the country being automated, off the grid anaerobic digester designed to solve the problem of organic waste in urban markets while reducing greenhouse gases, generating electricity, organic fertilizer and biogas. Was an active member of Christian Union Society all through holding various leadership positions of service.
Skills
Problem-Solving
undefinedSecondaryeducation
Naivasha Girls High School, KCSE, A plain
Primary school education
St Peters Elite Gilgil School, KCPE, A plain
Affiliations
- Institution of Engineers of Kenya, IEK
- Engineers Board of Kenya, EBK
- Kenya Society of Environmental Agricultural and Biological Engineers, KESEBAE
- National Environment Management Authority
Key competencies and skills
- Pioneering and innovative
- Knack for engineering, science, and machinery
- A love and a keen interest in agriculture
- Aptitude for leadership and service
- Proactive and flexible to tackle challenges on the job
- Team player
- Eloquent and passionate communicator
Certifications and courses
- First aid at work, August 2019
- Occupational Safety and health, September 2019
- Certificate in Business Management 1 & 2 - European Business University, Luxembourg, January 2022
- Certificate of Attendance in Kingdom/Christian Ministries - The Joshua Generation Trust - Kingdom Academy, July 2022
Personal interests and hobbies
- Research and writing
- An avid reader
- Working with machines
- Animal husbandry
- Culinary art
References
- Eng. Collins Young, Senior Superintending Engineer, Foundry, Numerical Machining Complex Limited, 0719460148, collinsyoung2000@gmail.com
- Prof. Duncan Mbuge, Chairman - Department of Environmental and Biosystems Engineering, The University of Nairobi, 0725949093, duncan.mbuge@uonbi.ac.ke
Timeline
Safety and Sustainability Information Analyst - Brookside Dairy Limited
12.2024 - Current
Technical Support Engineer - Brookside Dairy Limited
07.2024 - 11.2024
The University of Nairobi - Master of Science, Food And Process Engineering
05.2023 - Current
Management Trainee - Patmos Montessori School
01.2023 - 06.2024
Engineer Trainee - Numerical Machining Complex Limited
07.2021 - 10.2021
The University of Nairobi - Bachelor of Science in Environmental and Biosystems Engineering,
09.2015 - 12.2022
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