Main tasks• Performing all lab testing (as per previous positions).• Scheduling, planning, organising laboratory workflow and overseeing laboratory daily operations.• Assigning tasks.• Monitoring and evaluating staff progress (e.g., training records, performance reviews).• Recruitment of new staff.• Training management (i.e., new staff training plan/records, training for new methods/new equipment/updated SOP).• Rosters.• Ensuring lab testing supports the production timeline.• Management of laboratory toxic waste disposal.• Purchase ordering and stocks management. • Ensuring all Laboratory SOPs are up to date and adhered to by all staff.• SDS's management.• Budget management.• Lab-related audits.• Record keeping and data entering.• Management of WWTP testing and liaison with WWTP consultant.• Management of all laboratory equipment (i.e. adhering to service / PM schedule of all lab equipment, calibrations, repairs).• Inspecting the condition and function of equipment, troubleshooting when required (including liaison with relevant technical)• Management of external calibrations and analysis.• Management of “Interwinery” analysis, results submission, and review of reports. • Designing long-term plans (e.g., new lab design, research and implementation of new lab equipment and methods, current testing re-evaluation/improvement). OHS & Regulatory Compliance• Ensuring compliance with all OHS and Company policies and procedures• Ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of staff by following safe systems of work.

Main Tasks• Undertaking analysis of wine and other beverages (as per previous position).• Management and prioritisation of own workload in line with production directives.• Conducting routine analysis to schedule, ensuring all activities are completed within a reasonable timeframe. • Accurately operating and maintaining all laboratory equipment. • Preparation of customer samples. • Support of junior staff. • Preparation of analytical based reports.• Frequent revision of laboratory practices and procedures under consultation with lab manager andproduction team. • Ensuring the work environment is kept hygienic and clean.

Main tasks• Quality Control analysis of wine (from grapes harvest to finished bottled wine), cider and RTD beverages at different stages of production : grapes/apple juice, ferments, post-centrifuge, post-Omnia (floatation seperation system), blending stage, post cross-flow filtration, pre-bottling and post-packaging.• Continuous clear and organised record keeping and documentation of QA/test analysis and calibrations.• Preparation of laboratory reagents and standards.• General laboratory housekeeping.• Troubleshooting, calibration and maintenance of laboratory facilities and instrumentation.Key analysis:• Gases monitoring (CO2/DO2).• Determination of alcohol content by NIR spectroscopy.• Reading of specific gravity, baume, brix and temperature using density meter. • Determination of pH/TA using Ti-Touch automated titrator.• Determination of Free and Total sulphur by aspiration method, • Determination of malic acid, acetic acid, YANS, Free and Total sulphur, Glucose-Fructose-Sucrose using Photometric discrete analyser (enzymatic, colorimetric analysis).• Measurement of bitterness (IBU) and colour by spectrophotometry.• Determination of sorbic acid by spectrophotometry.• Microbiology testing (pre- and post-packaging).• Filterability, heat stability and cold/protein stability of wine.• Copper fining trials for wine and cider.• Grape must, juice and ferments monitoring (pectin stability, bentonite trials, fermentation tracking, etc.)• Yeast culture monitoring (total and budding cells count, % Viability, etc).• Wastewater treatment sampling, analysis (COD, pH, EC, Temp, % dry matter, settling volume, ammonia, phosphate) and report.• Determination of % dry matter using a moisture analyser.

Propagation, potting, pruning, grading (olive trees)

- Brewing Operations (semi- and fully-automated plants): wort dry hopping, wort centrifugation, green beer filtration (candles), bulk beer transfer, yeast harvesting/dumping/bleeding - SCADA brewing software- Tanks, lines and equipment CIP/SIP- Continuous clear and organised record keeping and documentation of production and equipment maintenance- Ensuring that safety within the workplace is a priority and all OH&S Policies are adhered to and following SOPs - Effective communication with Brewery coordinator and staffs.

Casual/Seasonal position (harvest)• Bulk liquid/wine transfers (<100L up to 275,000L using e.g. volumetric/mono pumps, flowmeter, gas fitting, 2 to 4” lines, etc.) • Cellar operations: tanks CIP and sanitization, grapes crushing, must jetting and pressing, wine clarification (racking off lees), wine filtration (cross flow), wine heating/cooling (heat exchanger), chemicals additions, donging (SO2 adds), laboratory assistance, etc.

Propagation, potting, pruning, grading (olive trees); bottling line (olive oil)

Collaborative Assistant Research Fellow within the Membran and Ions Transport group of research - Department of Physiology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Otago.Key tasks:- Cell culture- Stable and transient tranfection of plasmid DNA- PCR, (sub)-cloning, plasmid DNA purification, RNA isolation- Electrophoresis - agarose gel, Western-Blot, SDS-Page, etc

Travel around New Zealand and Australia, improving my english and getting different kind of work and life experiences.

Research engineer in fermentation, protein purification and drying technologiesManager of the drying technologies department (including spray drying ; freeze drying ; drying - coating - spheronization in fluidised bed ; jetcutter technology)Assistant teacher for chemical engineering practical classes at Institut Meurice

Pharmaceutical researches in therapeutic vaccines for allergiesKey tasks:- Protein purification (chromatography, tangential flow filtration, filtration, etc)- BCA Protein/peptid assay, Sugar assay by Orcinol, SDS-PAGE, Western-Blot, HPLC, etc- Scaling-up of the manufacturing process from laboratory to industrial scale - GLP / GMP