Independent Business Owner at Reinhart Consulting LLC - Buffalo Grove, Illinois, United States
Craig Reinhart is a Process Technical Specialist with 47 plus years of project management and process engineering experience in the food and beverage industry. He is currently a consultant in liquid food processing and food safety through Reinhart Consulting LLC.Craig earned a BSE in Chemical Engineering from The University of Michigan. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a FSPCA Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI) for human foods. He is a member of Institute for Thermal Processing Specialists (IFTPS), American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), International Society of Automation (ISA), Project Management Institute (PMI) and GMA's Process and Emerging Technologies Committee (PETCo). Craig was a member of the NFPA 43L Ad-Hoc Committee which wrote Validation Guidelines for Automated Control of Food Processing Systems Used for the Processing and Packaging of Preserved Foods (GMA Bulletin 43-L). Craig performed various roles during his 18+ years with Tetra Pak Inc. including Senior Process Technical Specialist, Sr. Process Engineer, Project Manager, Process Engineering Manager US. He was Quality Driver and Food Safety Lead for Tetra Pak in US and Canada, supplying regulatory and quality assurance support within Tetra Pak. Prior to joining Tetra Pak in 2001, Craig was with Cherry–Burrell Process Equipment for 18 years in various engineering, project management, product management and engineering management roles.Craig's key experience is the process engineering and project management of projects for low and high acid aseptic and ESL process lines in the United States. He is recognized as a technical liaison between processors, regulatory agencies and process authorities on system implementation projects.