Snacks Food Industry in Dubai, UAE is seeking experienced Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC) professionals to support food safety, product quality, hygiene, and manufacturing compliance within the gourmet snacks and food production industry in Dubai, UAE.
This opportunity is suitable for candidates with hands-on experience in food manufacturing, particularly those familiar with quality control procedures, food safety management systems, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and production quality monitoring. Candidates should be capable of working in a fast-paced manufacturing environment while maintaining consistent product quality and compliance with applicable food safety requirements.
The position is based in Jebel Ali, Dubai, and requires candidates to have a valid UAE driving licence and their own car. Applicants must also be willing to work rotating day and night shifts.
Job Responsibilities
- Monitor food manufacturing and processing activities to ensure compliance with established quality standards, food safety procedures, and company requirements.
- Conduct routine quality inspections of raw materials, ingredients, packaging materials, work-in-progress products, and finished gourmet snack products.
- Verify the quality, appearance, texture, weight, flavour, packaging integrity, and labelling of products against approved specifications.
- Monitor critical stages of food production, including ingredient handling, preparation, processing, packing, storage, and dispatch.
- Support the implementation, monitoring, and verification of food safety management systems, including HACCP-based procedures and applicable GMP requirements.
- Ensure production personnel follow hygiene practices, sanitation procedures, allergen controls, and safe food-handling requirements.
- Conduct routine inspections of production areas, food-contact surfaces, equipment, utensils, and storage facilities to identify potential food safety and quality risks.
- Assist in monitoring cleaning and sanitation activities and verify that production areas meet the required hygiene standards before operations begin.
- Identify product defects, deviations from specifications, contamination risks, and non-conformities during manufacturing and packaging operations.
- Report quality issues to the relevant production and quality management teams and support corrective and preventive actions.
- Maintain accurate quality assurance and quality control records, including inspection reports, production checks, hygiene monitoring records, and non-conformance reports.
- Assist with internal audits, customer inspections, regulatory inspections, and food safety system assessments.
- Monitor product storage conditions, stock rotation, shelf-life controls, and traceability documentation.
- Support product sampling, routine quality testing, and retention sample management, where applicable.
- Coordinate with production, warehouse, maintenance, and supply chain teams to resolve quality-related issues.
- Help maintain consistent product quality across manufacturing batches and ensure that products meet approved food safety and quality specifications.
- Follow company policies, occupational safety requirements, and established quality management procedures while working rotating shifts.
Job Qualifications
- Relevant experience in Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Food Safety, or quality inspection within the food manufacturing industry.
- Previous exposure to food processing, packaged food production, snack manufacturing, or similar food production environments is preferred.
- Good understanding of food safety principles, hygiene management, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and HACCP-based food safety controls.
- Knowledge of raw material inspection, in-process quality monitoring, finished product inspection, packaging checks, and quality documentation.
- Ability to identify product defects, food safety hazards, process deviations, and non-conformities.
- Familiarity with food safety management systems and quality assurance procedures used in food manufacturing facilities.
- Good documentation, communication, observation, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently and coordinate effectively with production and quality teams.
- Willingness to work rotating shifts, including day and night shifts.
- A valid UAE driving licence and access to a personal car are mandatory requirements.
- Candidates must be able to work at the manufacturing facility in Jebel Ali, Dubai, UAE.
Preferred Certifications
Candidates with relevant food safety and quality management training may have an advantage. Useful qualifications include:
- HACCP certification.
- Food Safety and Hygiene training.
- ISO 22000 Food Safety Management Systems training.
- GMP training for food manufacturing.
- Internal Auditor training for ISO 22000 or other relevant food safety management standards.
Jebel Ali, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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