Ana Chaves

Quality and Food Safety Auditor @ Coca-Cola Services

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

About

As an Integrated MSc Bioengineering from Oporto University I have been working in the Quality Assurance area for the Food Industry since 2014.

Experience

  • Senior Manager- Global Quality and Food Safety Auditor @ Coca-Cola Services at The Coca-Cola Company
    Sep 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • Global Supplier Quality Specialist at Barry Callebaut Group
    Jun 2021 - Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Nestlé (Euskirchen, Germany)
    • Quality Assistant Manager
      Nov 2019 - May 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Quality Manager Back-up. Responsible for Consumer Complaint Management and SAP superuser. Continuous support of the daily operations of the quality assurance department at Nestlé Purina in activities such as grading of finished products, training of operators and other workers on key quality aspects and food safety, project support and management of changes. Member of Focus Improvement and Quality Pillars for factory TPM system and KPI reporting.

    • Quality Assurance Expert
      May 2016 - Nov 2019 · 3 yrs 7 mos

      Responsible for HACCP and Food Safety. Continuous support of the daily operations of the quality assurance department at Nestlé Purina in activities such as release and grading of finished products, raw material intake, training of operators and other workers on key quality aspects and line asset intensity improvement, project support and management of changes. Member of Focus Improvement and Quality Pillars for factory TPM system and KPI reporting.

    • Quality Specialist
      Jul 2015 - May 2016 · 11 mos

      Support of the daily operations of the Quality Management department at Nestlé Purina in activities such as raw material intake, release and grading of finished products among others. Lead for external complaint system to Raw Material Suppliers. Design and Implementation of new laboratory instructions and maintenance of laboratory good practices.

  • Erasmus Research Project at University of Ulm
    Mar 2013 - Aug 2013 · 6 mos

    Colaboration with the Organic Chemestry III laboratory from the University of Ulm where a project was developed under the theme: Aptamer assited protein polymerization. During the research project several new laboratory techniques were learned such as fluorescent anisotropy measurements to estimate interaction constants, protein conjugation reactions as well as protein characterization and protein modeling. A new sense of team work and dedication towards a project was also acquired.

  • Trainee at Imperial - Produtos Alimentares S.A
    Jan 2012 - Feb 2012 · 2 mos

    Fisical and chemical analysis of raw material, final product and water. Control and collection of raw material and other at arrival- following the inspection plan. Quality control regular activities.