A hospitality and food service organization in Dubai is seeking a Food Safety Officer to support food safety, hygiene, sanitation, and regulatory compliance across multiple operational areas. This position is suitable for professionals with experience in hotel, catering, food manufacturing, restaurant, or food service operations.
The Food Safety Officer will play an important role in maintaining safe food handling practices from receiving and storage through preparation, production, service, and sanitation. The position also involves routine inspections, HACCP monitoring, food safety documentation, employee hygiene checks, and support for regulatory and certification requirements.
Job Responsibilities
- Implement and monitor food safety procedures throughout daily food and beverage operations.
- Conduct routine inspections of kitchens, food preparation areas, storage facilities, receiving areas, service outlets, and sanitation facilities.
- Verify that food handlers follow approved hygiene and safe food handling procedures.
- Monitor food receiving activities and check incoming food products for quality, packaging condition, expiry dates, labeling, and temperature compliance.
- Ensure appropriate storage practices are followed for chilled, frozen, dry, and ready-to-eat food products.
- Monitor refrigerator and freezer temperatures and review temperature records for compliance.
- Check food preparation and production activities to identify potential contamination and food safety risks.
- Monitor cooking, cooling, reheating, holding, and serving controls where applicable.
- Verify implementation of HACCP procedures and ensure critical food safety controls are properly monitored.
- Maintain and review CCP and OPRP monitoring records.
- Investigate deviations from established food safety limits and ensure corrective actions are documented and followed up.
- Conduct scheduled hygiene inspections and prepare reports highlighting observations and non-conformities.
- Monitor cleaning and disinfection procedures in kitchens, food production areas, equipment, utensils, and food contact surfaces.
- Verify that sanitation schedules are completed according to established procedures.
- Monitor employee personal hygiene, including handwashing, protective clothing, grooming, and hygienic food handling practices.
- Check the validity and availability of required occupational health cards for food handlers.
- Support food safety awareness and hygiene training for kitchen, catering, stewarding, and F&B employees.
- Monitor pest control activities and follow up on observations requiring corrective action.
- Inspect external food outlets, food trucks, catering locations, and temporary food service areas.
- Support food hygiene and safety controls during exhibitions, events, and large-scale catering activities.
- Review food safety records and ensure documentation is maintained accurately and systematically.
- Assist with internal audits and inspections related to HACCP and food safety management systems.
- Support compliance with applicable Dubai Municipality food safety requirements.
- Assist in maintaining documentation related to ISO 22000:2018 and Green Globe requirements.
- Follow up with operational departments on outstanding food safety observations and corrective actions.
- Escalate serious food safety risks, repeated violations, or potential regulatory concerns to management.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of food safety practices across hospitality and food service operations.
Job Qualifications
- Minimum 2 years of professional experience in food safety, food hygiene, quality assurance, or a related function.
- Diploma or bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Food Technology, Microbiology, Biotechnology, Life Sciences, or a related field.
- Practical understanding of HACCP principles and food safety controls.
- Previous experience in a 5-star hotel, hospitality organization, catering operation, food manufacturing company, or food service environment.
- Level 3 Food Hygiene & Safety training.
- HACCP ISO 22000 training.training certification.
- Knowledge of food hygiene inspection procedures and food safety documentation.
- Understanding of CCP and OPRP monitoring.
- Familiarity with food temperature control, sanitation, personal hygiene, food storage, and contamination prevention.
- Knowledge of applicable UAE food safety requirements, particularly those relevant to Dubai operations.
- Ability to identify food safety hazards and recommend appropriate corrective actions.
- Good documentation and reporting skills.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Microsoft Word and Excel.
- Good communication skills and the ability to coordinate with kitchen, F&B, catering, purchasing, production, and operations teams.
- Strong attention to detail and a practical approach to food safety monitoring.
Food Safety Areas Covered
The Food Safety Officer may be involved in monitoring several stages of the food operation, including:
Food Receiving:
Checking supplier deliveries, product condition, temperatures, packaging integrity, dates, and hygiene conditions.
Food Storage:
Monitoring chilled, frozen, and dry storage conditions, temperature controls, stock rotation, labeling, and segregation.
Food Preparation:
Checking hygienic food handling, cross-contamination controls, personal hygiene, equipment sanitation, and preparation practices.
Food Production:
Monitoring cooking, cooling, reheating, hot holding, cold holding, and other applicable food safety controls.
Food Service:
Inspecting buffet areas, service outlets, food display conditions, holding temperatures, utensils, and food handling practices.
Cleaning & Sanitation:
Verifying cleaning schedules, sanitation procedures, chemical use, equipment hygiene, and food-contact surface cleanliness.
Documentation:
Maintaining HACCP records, inspection reports, temperature records, CCP/OPRP monitoring documents, corrective action records, and other food safety documentation.
Food Safety Compliance
The position requires practical knowledge of food safety management systems and regulatory compliance. The Food Safety Officer will support the implementation and maintenance of procedures associated with:
- HACCP
- ISO 22000:2018
- Food hygiene and sanitation
- CCP monitoring
- OPRP controls
- Personal hygiene
- Temperature control
- Cleaning and disinfection
- Food receiving and storage
- Corrective and preventive actions
- Dubai Municipality food safety requirements
- Green Globe-related documentation and practices
Job Details
Job Title: Food Safety Officer
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Industry: Hospitality / Food Service / Catering