A meal plan and cloud kitchen company in Mussafah, Abu Dhabi, is looking for a Quality Control & Hygiene Officer to support its food safety, quality assurance, and hygiene management operations.
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
Industry: Food & Beverage / Meal Preparation / Cloud Kitchen
Monthly Salary: AED 2,500 – 4,500
Experience: 2–3 Years
Employment Type: Full-time
The successful candidate will be responsible for monitoring food safety and hygiene practices across kitchen and food production operations, ensuring compliance with HACCP principles, ISO 22000 requirements, and applicable UAE food safety regulations.
The role involves conducting routine kitchen inspections, monitoring sanitation practices, maintaining food safety documentation, coordinating microbiological testing, supporting audits, and ensuring that employees consistently follow established food safety procedures.
The candidate will also work closely with the Head Chef, kitchen staff, and management to identify hygiene-related risks, investigate complaints, implement corrective actions, and continuously improve food safety standards.
Important: This position is open to male candidates only due to operational requirements, as QC duties may occasionally involve night shifts.
Job Responsibilities
Food Safety & Hygiene Monitoring
- Assist in implementing, maintaining, and monitoring food safety policies, procedures, and hygiene standards across all kitchen, food preparation, storage, and production areas.
- Conduct daily kitchen inspections and routine hygiene walk-throughs to verify compliance with established food safety requirements.
- Monitor food handling, preparation, cooking, cooling, reheating, storage, and distribution practices to ensure safe food production.
- Verify compliance with HACCP requirements, ISO 22000 food safety management principles, and applicable Abu Dhabi and UAE food safety regulations.
- Monitor critical control points (CCPs), operational hygiene controls, and relevant food safety parameters.
- Check food storage temperatures, chiller and freezer conditions, product labelling, date coding, shelf-life controls, and stock rotation practices.
- Ensure proper segregation of raw and cooked foods, allergen management, cross-contamination prevention, and safe food handling practices.
- Monitor personal hygiene, protective clothing, handwashing practices, and employee compliance with food safety procedures.
Quality Control & Kitchen Inspections
- Perform regular inspections of food production areas, preparation stations, equipment, utensils, storage facilities, and food-contact surfaces.
- Monitor cleaning and sanitation activities to ensure that established cleaning schedules and procedures are properly followed.
- Identify hygiene gaps, unsafe food handling practices, contamination risks, and deviations from approved procedures.
- Report non-conformities to the concerned departments and follow up on corrective and preventive actions.
- Assist in investigating food quality and hygiene complaints, including suspected food poisoning incidents, and coordinate appropriate follow-up actions.
- Monitor product handling and quality practices to ensure consistency and compliance with internal standards.
- Maintain records of inspection findings, hygiene observations, and corrective actions.
Documentation, Audits & Compliance
- Prepare, maintain, review, and update food safety documentation, hygiene records, inspection checklists, and monitoring logs.
- Maintain accurate records of temperature monitoring, cleaning schedules, sanitation activities, pest control, personal hygiene, and food safety inspections.
- Support internal and external food safety audits by preparing relevant documentation and ensuring operational audit readiness.
- Assist in conducting food safety risk assessments and identifying areas requiring improvement.
- Maintain proper filing systems and ensure that all food safety records are accurate, complete, and readily accessible.
- Prepare periodic hygiene and quality reports and communicate significant findings to management.
- Participate in hygiene committee meetings, prepare meeting minutes, and monitor the completion of assigned action points.
Microbiological Testing & Supplier Monitoring
- Coordinate food, water, surface, and environmental microbiological sampling with approved third-party laboratories, as required.
- Follow up on laboratory testing schedules, sample collection, test results, and corrective actions arising from unsatisfactory findings.
- Assist in coordinating hygiene-related testing and ensure timely communication of results to management.
- Monitor supplier hygiene and food safety compliance and assist with supplier evaluations and audits when required.
- Support stock control and distribution of hygiene-related materials, cleaning supplies, and food safety equipment.
Staff Training & Continuous Improvement
- Assist in delivering basic food hygiene training and refresher sessions to kitchen and food production employees, where appropriately certified.
- Ensure food handlers receive relevant hygiene guidance and follow established food safety practices.
- Maintain employee food safety training records and ensure that documentation is regularly updated.
- Promote awareness of food safety, personal hygiene, sanitation, and contamination prevention among employees.
- Monitor waste management practices and ensure proper disposal procedures are followed.
- Work with kitchen and management teams to identify recurring hygiene issues and recommend improvements.
- Perform additional food safety, quality, and hygiene-related duties assigned by the Head Chef or General Manager.
Job Qualifications
- A bachelor’s degree or diploma in Food Science, Food Technology, Microbiology, Food Safety, Food Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 2–3 years of relevant experience in food safety, quality control, hygiene management, or quality assurance within the food service, hospitality, restaurant, catering, or food manufacturing industry.
- Candidates with previous experience in cloud kitchens, central kitchens, meal preparation facilities, catering operations, or food delivery businesses will have an advantage.
- Basic to good working knowledge of HACCP principles and food safety management systems.
- Understanding of ISO 22000 requirements and food safety management practices.
- Familiarity with UAE food safety regulations and applicable Abu Dhabi food control requirements.
- Practical knowledge of kitchen hygiene inspections, food handling procedures, sanitation, and cleaning verification.
- Understanding of temperature monitoring, food storage controls, stock rotation, shelf-life management, and cross-contamination prevention.
- Knowledge of food safety documentation, including temperature logs, cleaning records, inspection checklists, and corrective action reports.
- Familiarity with food microbiological testing, environmental monitoring, and coordination with external testing laboratories.
- Ability to identify food safety hazards, investigate hygiene-related non-conformities, and recommend corrective and preventive measures.
- Good reporting, documentation, and organisational skills.
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to independently conduct routine hygiene inspections.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to coordinate effectively with chefs, kitchen employees, suppliers, and management.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Word, Excel, and Outlook.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced food production environment and manage multiple hygiene-related responsibilities.
- Flexibility to work occasional night shifts when required.
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