Gabriela Marina Menghi Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

• HACCP Management: Complete and maintain all relevant HACCP documentation up to date with product launches, new processes and new equipment. Ensure cross site compatibility where appropriate. Define procedures to control the risks within the Quality Management System. Carry out HACCP Food Safety Reviews, HACCP audits and CCP validations.• Allergen Management: Manage the site Allergen Risk Assessments, maintaining them up to date with product launches, new processes and new equipment. Co-ordinate with HACCP Risk Assessment. Define procedures to control the risks within the Quality Management System. Organise and complete allergen cleaning validation. • Complete and maintain Brand Integrity, Vegan, Vegetarian and Organic Risk Assessments. Define procedures to control the risks within the Quality Management System.• Conduct internal audits (GMP and Hygiene Audits) and assist external audits (BRC, Retailer and third-party audits). • Management of recipes, factory paperwork and reference sheets. Provide technical support on the development of new products. • Nutritional: coordinate nutritional annual schedule. Track results, coordinate process audits following any out of specification result and optimise processes where possible.• Shelf-life: coordinate shelf-life annual schedule. Track results and communicate results to Company Microbiologist and Technical Manager.

London, United Kingdom

• Coordinate the development of new products from concept approval to launch ensuring consistency, Food Safety, Quality and Legislative requirements are achieved.• Plan and execute factory trials in association with Production, Technical, Procurement and Engineering Departments.• Monitor yields during factory trials, optimize and improve factory processes.• Ensure all factory trial products are sent for shelf-life, nutritional, organoleptic, cooking instruction and transit trial.• Provide relevant data from trials to Commercial and Specifications Departments.• Generate relevant paperwork to ensure products are manufactured according to standards agreed with customer.• Generate relevant quality attribute sheets as required by customers.• Lead process development, pre production and launch meetings with departments from across the business.• Manage pre production trials, support production on launches attended by the retailers and monitor products after launched.

London, United Kingdom

• Managed and prepared food production samples for daily microbiological testing, weekly and monthly pathogen testing.• Logged, labelled and prepared raw material, swabs and water samples for microbiological testing. • Logged and trended microbiological results and management of retesting.• Involved on daily taste panels.• Performed cooking and cooling validations using data loggers.

Croácia

I was member of a research project in the Laboratory of Technology and Analysis of Wine, analysing phenolic compounds in fruit wines.

Argentina

I was member of the Wine Production Quality Laboratory. - Controlling wine fermentation : alcohol, sugars, acidity, pH and sulphur dioxide;- Controlling quality at bottling: measurement of the fill point, vacuum, SO2, CO2, O2, test for presence of foreign elements in the bottles, chemical analysis of wine at the start of the bottling and control of wine labels.- Controlling grape harvest: search of optimal grape maturity.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Food Engineering

Activities and Societies: Fluxo: Engineering Junior Enterprise at UFRJ

English As A Second Language