A PremiumGourmet Food company in Dubai is seeking a Quality Assurance Coordinator to support quality assurance and food safety operations across its processing and production areas. The role involves implementing food safety controls, conducting routine inspections, monitoring production activities, verifying product quality, and ensuring compliance with established food safety standards and procedures.
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Industry: Food Manufacturing / Food Processing
Experience: 1–2 Years
The successful candidate will work closely with production teams to maintain product quality, identify potential food safety risks, and ensure that manufacturing processes meet HACCP, GMP, and GHP requirements. Candidates with experience in meat processing or other food manufacturing operations will have an advantage.
Job Responsibilities
Quality Assurance & Food Safety Operations
- Conduct daily HACCP monitoring and verification checks to ensure compliance with established food safety plans.
- Inspect incoming raw materials, ingredients, and packaging materials to verify their quality and suitability for production.
- Monitor food processing and manufacturing activities to ensure adherence to approved procedures and quality standards.
- Collect product samples and perform routine quality assessments, inspections, and evaluations.
- Verify product formulations, recipes, specifications, and processing parameters against approved standards.
- Ensure proper product identification, batch coding, labelling, traceability, and storage conditions.
- Monitor critical control points (CCPs) and operational prerequisite programmes (OPRPs), where applicable.
- Identify potential food safety hazards and promptly report deviations to the concerned departments.
Quality Control & Compliance
- Implement product hold and release procedures in coordination with production supervisors and section heads.
- Identify, document, and report non-conforming raw materials, work-in-progress products, and finished products.
- Ensure appropriate segregation and handling of rejected, quarantined, or non-conforming products.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date quality control records, inspection reports, monitoring sheets, and food safety documentation.
- Monitor compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Good Hygiene Practices (GHP), and personal hygiene requirements.
- Verify that production activities comply with approved SOPs, product specifications, and food safety requirements.
- Assist in investigating quality deviations, customer complaints, and process-related non-conformities.
- Support corrective and preventive action (CAPA) implementation and follow up on identified quality issues.
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives aimed at enhancing product quality and operational efficiency.
Hygiene, Sanitation & Monitoring
- Monitor cleaning and sanitation activities across processing areas and production equipment.
- Verify the effectiveness of cleaning procedures and ensure compliance with established sanitation schedules.
- Conduct routine hygiene inspections of production areas, equipment, utensils, and employee practices.
- Ensure appropriate product sampling procedures are followed and properly documented.
- Operate, verify, and maintain quality monitoring instruments such as thermometers, weighing scales, and other measuring devices.
- Monitor temperature controls and other relevant processing and storage conditions.
- Support internal food safety audits, inspections, and other compliance-related activities.
Job Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Food Technology, Food Science, Microbiology, Biotechnology, Agricultural Sciences, or a related scientific discipline.
- 1–2 years of experience in Quality Assurance or Quality Control within the food manufacturing or food processing industry.
- Experience in meat processing, poultry processing, or other food manufacturing operations will be an advantage.
- Good understanding of HACCP principles, food safety management systems, GMP, and GHP.
- Familiarity with raw material inspection, in-process quality monitoring, product sampling, and finished product evaluation.
- Knowledge of product specifications, batch traceability, coding, storage requirements, and non-conformance management.
- Ability to maintain accurate quality records and prepare inspection and monitoring reports.
- Good observation, analytical, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to coordinate effectively with production and other operational teams.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to maintaining food safety and product quality standards.
Recommended Certifications
Candidates with the following certifications will have an added advantage:
- HACCP Level 3 or Level 4
- ISO 22000 Food Safety Management System
- FSSC 22000 Awareness or Internal Auditor
- GMP and Food Hygiene Training
- Food Safety Internal Auditor Training
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