A leading catering company in Abu Dhabi is hiring a Senior Hygiene & Quality Officer to ensure compliance with UAE food safety regulations, HACCP, GMP, GHP, and company quality standards, conduct hygiene and quality inspections across kitchens, stores, food transport, and service areas, and drive continuous improvement across all food safety and quality processes.
About This Catering Opportunity
Industry Focus: Catering operations spanning kitchens, stores, food transport, and service areas
Compliance Scope: UAE food safety regulations, HACCP, GMP, and GHP standards
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE — a major hub for institutional and commercial catering
Audit Exposure: Supports municipality, client, certification, and external audits
Career Impact & Growth Opportunity
Senior-Level Ownership: Lead hygiene and quality inspections, audits, and corrective action tracking
Cross-Departmental Reach: Coordinate with Operations, Kitchen, Stores, Procurement, Transport, and Maintenance
Training Responsibility: Deliver food safety and hygiene training to catering staff
Career Growth: Build a senior food safety career within one of the UAE’s active catering markets
Position Overview
This Senior Hygiene & Quality Officer role is responsible for ensuring compliance with UAE food safety regulations, HACCP, GMP, GHP, and company quality standards across catering operations. You will conduct hygiene and quality inspections across kitchens, stores, food transport, and service areas, monitor food receiving, storage, preparation, cooking, holding, temperature control, labeling, and expiry management, and lead internal audits, corrective actions, and staff training to maintain the highest food safety standards.
Why This Role Matters: As Senior Hygiene & Quality Officer, you protect public health by ensuring rigorous food safety and hygiene standards across the full catering supply chain, lead internal audits and corrective action processes that keep operations compliant with municipality and client requirements, deliver hands-on food safety training that builds a culture of quality across catering teams, work cross-functionally with Kitchen, Stores, Procurement, Transport, and Maintenance departments, and take on a senior role with real ownership over hygiene and quality outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Compliance & Quality Inspections
- Ensure compliance with UAE food safety regulations, HACCP, GMP, GHP, and company quality standards
- Conduct hygiene and quality inspections across kitchens, stores, food transport, and service areas
- Monitor food receiving, storage, preparation, cooking, holding, temperature control, labeling, and expiry management
- Ensure proper cleaning, sanitation, pest control, personal hygiene, waste handling, and chemical management
Audits & Corrective Actions
- Conduct internal audits, identify non-conformities, and ensure timely corrective and preventive actions
- Investigate food complaints, hygiene incidents, and product quality issues
- Maintain HACCP records, inspection reports, temperature logs, audit records, and corrective action trackers
- Support municipality, client, certification, and external audits
Training & Cross-Functional Coordination
- Conduct food safety and hygiene training for catering staff
- Coordinate with Operations, Kitchen, Stores, Procurement, Transport, and Maintenance on hygiene and quality matters
- Prepare periodic quality and hygiene reports for management review
- Support continuous improvement initiatives across food safety processes
Qualifications & Requirements
Experience Requirements
- Minimum five years’ experience in the same position (Senior Hygiene and Quality Management), HQSC or HQSE
- Background from the catering business is preferable
Language & Communication Requirements
- Fluent in English, both spoken and written
- Arabic speaking is preferable
- Computer literacy required for reporting and documentation
Other Requirements
- References will be mandatory
About the Catering Industry in Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi’s catering sector serves a wide range of institutional, corporate, and commercial clients, making rigorous hygiene and quality management essential to protecting public health and meeting municipality and client standards. This role sits at the center of that mission, ensuring every stage of the food supply chain — from receiving to service — meets HACCP, GMP, and GHP requirements.
Career Excellence: Lead hygiene and quality standards for a growing catering operation in the UAE capital.
Who Should Apply?
- HQSC/HQSE Professionals: With 5+ years in senior hygiene and quality management roles
- Catering Industry Specialists: With hands-on kitchen, stores, and food transport hygiene experience
- HACCP/GMP/GHP Auditors: Comfortable leading internal and external food safety audits
- Arabic-English Bilingual Candidates: Seeking senior food safety roles in Abu Dhabi
- Food Safety Trainers: Experienced in delivering hygiene training to catering teams
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