Gulnara Beimusheva

The shift supervisor at Raimbek Agro plant
Gulnara Beimusheva

“RAIMBEK PEOPLE” 

Series of interviews with Raimbek employees dedicated the 25th anniversary of the company.

“I AM PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE QUALITY OF MILK”  

Gulnara Beimusheva is the shift supervisor at Raimbek Agro plant. She was one of the first staff members of the new plant. Quality of milk branded as “Ainalayin” and “Miloko” depends on her.   

-  Gulnara, how did you start your work at Raimbek Agro? 

- I graduated from Semipalatinsk technological institute with the specialization “technologist of dairy products industry”, worked in various enterprises. In 2001 I learnt that the new dairy plant was about to open in our village (Otegen Batyr village, Almaty region), just two blocks away from my home. I was very, very surprised that this was happening so close, in our Zhetysu… and of course I went there. My education met the requirements, and I needed work… such a concourse of circumstances. I was told that the plant was being built and was about to open. And at the stage of installation works I was recruited to Raimbek Agro plant. I had the experience, that’s why I was invited to work as a shift supervisor.  

When construction works were completed production lines and tanks were installed, and I had to master in them. Washing equipment, receiving the first batches of milk, carrying out sterilization and achieving industrial sterility. I was so glad, for I started doing what I knew! I worked! I did my job!

- And for today, what are your everyday responsibilities?

- My responsibilities are control over order, work organization and quality product manufacturing. We take over shift while the workshop is at the stage of production. Our shift takes up the baton from the previous one: product, equipment in process, positions in all workshops, sanitary state, and we carry out comparative check of tangible assets. We get the production plan, proceed milk pasteurization and pack-filling. Certainly, we examine the ready products for standard compliance. And the staff members’ discipline, and the sanitary sphere, and maintenance of equipment also concern me. At the moment I have18 people subordinate to me. Generally speaking, they all are kids (smiles). Our current operator is almost 10 years younger than my children!

Newbies come. You teach them, require strictly: work carefully, this is equipment, you should be careful with it! Here’s the plant, here are workshops, we should have a careful attitude to them, we have come here to WORK! Raimbek gave us work, it is worth much! That’s why if you come here, you should work conscientiously.

- When you started working after the university, did you work on a simpler equipment?

- On a different, soviet equipment, of course. When I first came to production, technologies were different. But in a due time we studied well, I still have enough knowledge. Nowadays technical part and electronic stuffing are completely new. But I perfectly know from where and where to goes milk I am responsible for (laughs)!  

I remember my first batch of milk we produced. A car came from a farm. We accepted 4 tons of farm milk, normalized it and manufactured our first milk, 2772 packs. Why was this difference? Well, it was the first equipment, it was purely new, we trialed it, were getting used to it. Sometimes the flow got stuck and milk was spilled.

When we produced our first milk we took it to incubator of the microbiological laboratory. We incubated it for 5 days. It was on December 26, 2001. And we examined its sterility only after holidays in January. I remember we then opened the whole batch, all 2772 packs. And poured it out to the drainage. It was a pity to do so, but we had to, we had to! We examined it, and there was a hundred percent sterility! And by January 15 product manufacture churned out. 

- Is it interesting for you to work here?

- It is! It is interesting, because our products are manufactured in Kazakhstan! In the early 90-s I had a feeling that everything was getting ruined and collapsed. There was no production. Now we’ve got the Kazakhstani products, even after such a downfall! Production increases, equipment gets new, Raimbek invests more money. And we are standing at the cradle of the plant, could that be not interesting?  

- You are good expert. Have the competitors tried to entice you away?

- No, this workshop has always held me! Of course, there was some tension in relations with the management, anything happened. I am often being complained at for being strict. People get used to my temper. There are complaints for high requirements (smiles) frankly speaking. I can not remain indifferent! My husband jokes at me, for he was from the communist family, his parents were teachers… I need to pass on the shift perfectly. In sanitary aspects, and in fulfilling the plan, and in avoiding emergency incidents. And the equipment should work in a right way, and people should not find themselves in any dangerous situations. There should be neither problems nor reproofs: the quota should be met, and there should be no problems.

I always say that I am responsible for one forth of the quality of Raimbek Agro products – we work in four shifts, and I am a master in one of them!

- And do you like your products yourself?

- Of course! I always buy “Aynalayin”, it’s a rule. And now we have started manufacturing kefir, we develop this manufacture, and I am sure we shall develop it as well. No problem, whether it is kefir, dairy production or fermented milk production – I know it all. Our kefir is good, tasty. We like it very much. We are offered it in our canteen and we try it. The whole plant (laughs) consumes it!

 

 

  

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