Mohamed Gamal

Food safety manager at Medina Foodservice

• Great Britain (UK)
• My current job since October 2018

Company scope: Wholesale and meat processing
Key Responsibilities:
- Management of day to day food safety and technical operations; design, implementing and maintenance
of HACCP based food safety management system policies and procedures to ensure compliance with
regulatory, customer and third party (SALSA) requirements
- Document control, record keeping and due diligence
- Attaining SALSA accreditation and achieving and maintaining approvals to supply customers, e.g.
Sodexo and COOP
- Point of contact for regulatory authorities, customer quality queries and certification body
- Development of PRPs, GMPs and SSOPs and ensure enforcing of company's hygiene standard
- Planning and independently carrying out of internal audits, analysis and trending of findings and
resolution of non-conformances and follow up of corrective and preventive action
- Raw material and finished product control, supplier approval and assurance, specification, labelling and
traceability control and shelf life validation.
- Product and environment sampling plans, analysis of results and determination of corrective actions
- Providing technical guidance and support to other departments in technical issues, communicating
company's policies and values, conducting training needs analysis (TNA) and carrying out training
programs

Quality Auditor at Allied Bakeries

• Great Britain (UK)
• November 2017 to February 2018

Ensure operational adherence to food safety and quality procedures and HACCP plans, including
monitoring and verification of CCPs
- Carry out scheduled internal audit activities and ensure completion of actions for any non-conformance
raised
- Finished product organoleptic and quality assessments against the set specifications
- Label verification in accordance with UK national regulations and customer requirements, e.g. Tesco,
Sainsbury and Coop
- Carry out in house calibration of metal detectors, weighing scales and probe thermometers

Quality Assurance Manager (QA Manager) at Supreme Foods

• United Arab Emirates - Dubai
• October 2015 to May 2017

Management of day to day operation of technical department and managing technical team staff
Management design, implementing, maintenance and continuous improvement of HACCP based food
safety and quality management system to ensure and improve product, process and environmental safety
and quality and comply with regulatory and customer requirements
Review, update and ensure effective implementation of the written quality assurance policies, procedures
and programs using legislative, industry, customer and third party (BRC, ISO 2200) requirements, best
practice and recommendations.
Recording, storing and retrieval of records to demonstrate product quality and consistency and due
diligence
Development and monitoring of quality key performance indicators (KPI's)
Point of contact for regulatory authorities, customer quality queries and certification body
Liaise with customers and statutory bodies during factory visits and audits providing information required
and implementing corrective action where necessary and the compilation of response reports
Maintaining status of third party certifications; ISO 22000 and BRC promotion to AA grade
Maintaining the status as approved supplier to high profile customers, e.g. YUM! Brands, Burger King
Customer satisfaction and complaint management, investigation, correction, follow up and trend analysis
Development of PRPs, GMPs and SSOPs and ensure that factory hygiene and food safety regulations
are enforced through developing of personal hygiene, cleaning and sanitation procedures and instruction cards (CIC), cleaning validation, verification and post cleaning swabs.
Contamination and environment control, e.g. allergen and microbial control and cold chain maintenance and pest control
Planning and independent carrying out of GMPs, environment and personal hygiene, glass and brittle, site security and management system internal audits, investigation, analysis and trending of findings and
developing and follow up of corrective and preventive actions
- Conducting required risk assessments, e.g. area zoning assessment and fraud vulnerability assessments
using VACCP and TACCP tools and devising mitigation strategies
- Assessment and evaluation, site audit, approval, and performance review of current and new suppliers
and maintaining approved suppliers list
- Conducting raw material risk assessment, development, review and approval of specifications & defining goods in checks and acceptance and rejection criteria
Developing of in house finished product specifications and carrying out quality assessment and
organoleptic evaluation and shelf life validation studies
Label design, verification and approval in accordance with regulatory and customer requirements
Developing internal traceability coding system, tractability cards and carrying out traceability testing and
mock recalls
- Development of product and environment sampling plans and analysis results and trends and
determination of corrective and preventative measures as required and response to customer out of
specification reports.
- Management of technical Staff including recruitment, training and development, performance and
attendance monitoring, counselling and disciplining
Update technical data on customer portals and company's system (SAP), hold/release system
Developing annual budget; assessing needs and potential financial saving of technical department
Provide technical guidance and support to other departments, developing awareness, understanding and
resolutions of technical issues, communicating company's policies and values, conducting training needs analysis(TNA), developing and carrying out training programs
Development of crisis management and emergency preparedness procedures; gap analysis, protective
measures and testing the system
Contribute to new products development projects and adjusting operational and technical needs
Reporting to senior management; developing reports on the set technical objectives and discussing
trends

HACCP Consultant at CHILTERN TMC

• United Arab Emirates - Dubai
• August 2014 to October 2015

Provide technical consults and assist clients to implement and achieve HACCP certification as per Dubai
food code and Municipality requirements.
 Carrying out gap analysis, development of PRPs, HACCP Manual and relevant documents and
records
- Provide basic and intermediate food safety and food hygiene training for client's staff
 Developing training materials, trainees evaluation and training exit criteria
 Approved trainer by Dubai Municipality

Meat inspector

• Egypt
• July 2010 to December 2010

: council abattoir

• to

quality systems.
Areas of competence:
* Regulatory compliance and due diligence; of particular GCC,
EU and UK legislations and regulations
* Food Safety and Quality Management Systems;
o Development, implementing, review and auditing of Food Safety
quality management system policies, procedures, programs, work
instructions and records; of particular BRC, ISO 22000, SALSA,
HACCP and VACCP and customer standards, e.g. Yum! Brands,
Burger King and Sodexo
- PRPs, GMPs and SSOPs
- Contamination and environment control; cleaning and sanitation,
environment and personal hygiene
- Customer satisfaction and complaint management
- Raw material control and supplier assurance, assessment, approval
and review
- Product traceability, labeling, specification, quality assessment and
shelf life validation
- Equipment and process validation and verification
- Technical support and staff training
- Product and environment sampling Programs
- Internal audit, non-conformance and corrective actions
- Food fraud vulnerability assessment and mitigation strategies
- Incident management and emergency preparedness
- Document control, record keeping and due diligence
- Regulatory, customer and certification audits
Contact:
Mhmd.Gmal@Ymail.com
+447378481324
Skype: M.GAMAL787
LinkedIn: Mohamed Gamal