Senior Hygiene & Quality Officer

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with UAE food safety regulations, HACCP, GMP, GHP, and company quality standards.
• Conduct hygiene and quality inspections across kitchens, stores, food transport, and service areas.
• Monitor food receiving, storage, preparation, cooking, holding, temperature control, labeling, and expiry management.
• Ensure proper cleaning, sanitation, pest control, personal hygiene, waste handling, and chemical management.
• Conduct internal audits, identify non-conformities, and ensure timely corrective and preventive actions.
• Investigate food complaints, hygiene incidents, and product quality issues.
• Maintain HACCP records, inspection reports, temperature logs, audit records, and corrective action trackers.
• Conduct food safety and hygiene training for catering staff.
• Support municipality, client, certification, and external audits.
• Coordinate with Operations, Kitchen, Stores, Procurement, Transport, and Maintenance on hygiene and quality matters.
• Prepare periodic quality and hygiene reports and support continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years experience same position (senior hygiene and quality management) HQSC or HQSE.
• Preferable Arabic speaking
• Preferable from same background of catering business.
• Fluent in English and computer knowledge.
• References will be mandatory.