A growing healthy meal preparation and meal plan company in Dubai is seeking a Food Safety Officer to maintain high standards of food safety, hygiene, and quality across its production operations.
Industry: Food & Beverage / Meal Preparation & Healthy Food Production
Company Type: Healthy Meal Plan & Meal Preparation Company
Location: Dubai, UAE
Job Type: Full-time
The role will have a particular focus on meat and fish processing, raw material handling, sanitation, and contamination prevention. The successful candidate will work closely with production teams and report directly to the Operations Manager, ensuring that food safety procedures are consistently implemented and followed.
This is a hands-on position suited to a food safety professional with practical experience in meat or poultry processing and a strong understanding of food safety inspections, microbiological testing, and corrective action management.
Job Responsibilities
Food Safety Compliance and Monitoring
- Conduct routine food safety inspections across production areas, food preparation sections, and processing operations.
- Monitor compliance with HACCP requirements, food safety procedures, hygiene standards, and applicable regulatory requirements.
- Verify cleaning and sanitation practices, personal hygiene, equipment cleanliness, and food handling procedures.
- Monitor raw meat and fish handling, processing, storage, and preparation activities to prevent cross-contamination.
- Coordinate food safety testing, environmental swabbing, and microbiological analysis.
- Maintain accurate food safety records, inspection reports, monitoring logs, and compliance documentation.
- Identify unsafe practices and immediately stop, report, or escalate activities that may compromise food safety.
Incident Management and Corrective Actions
- Identify potential food safety hazards and operational risks within production processes.
- Investigate failed inspections, food safety incidents, hygiene concerns, and non-conformities.
- Coordinate corrective and preventive actions with production teams.
- Follow up on identified issues and verify that corrective actions have been effectively implemented.
- Monitor recurring food safety issues and recommend improvements to prevent future incidents.
- Work closely with the Operations Manager and production personnel to strengthen food safety practices.
Job Qualifications
- HACCP Level 4 certification is mandatory.
- Practical food safety experience in meat or poultry processing and production environments.
- Strong knowledge of raw meat handling, sanitation procedures, hygiene controls, and cross-contamination prevention.
- Experience conducting food safety inspections and monitoring production hygiene standards.
- Familiarity with environmental swabbing, microbiological testing, and corrective action procedures.
- Good understanding of HACCP principles and food safety management systems.
- Strong attention to detail, organisational skills, and the ability to maintain accurate documentation.
- Confident communication skills, with the ability to identify food safety concerns and work effectively with production teams.
- Good written and spoken English.
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