Hygiene Officer
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Role Overview
The Hygiene Officer supports food-safety, hygiene, and sanitation standards across restaurants and related food operations.
The role conducts inspections, maintains records, trains employees, and follows up corrective actions under the Group Executive Chef.
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Company Description
M Management Company is a Dubai-based hospitality group founded in 2014 and operating food and beverage venues across the UAE.
Role Overview
The Hygiene Officer supports food-safety, hygiene, and sanitation standards across restaurants and related food operations.
The role conducts inspections, maintains records, trains employees, and follows up corrective actions under the Group Executive Chef.
Compliance and Audits
- Monitor food-safety policies, HACCP procedures, municipality requirements, and UAE regulations.
- Conduct routine, scheduled, and unannounced inspections across food-operation areas.
- Prepare reports with findings, risk levels, corrective actions, owners, and deadlines.
- Support regulatory, third-party, certification, and client inspections.
- Escalate serious, repeated, or overdue non-compliance and recommend preventive measures.
Food Safety Systems
- Support HACCP implementation, verification, and continuous improvement.
- Review critical control point records, temperature logs, receiving documents, and cleaning schedules.
- Maintain accurate, complete, traceable, and retained food-safety records.
- Participate in traceability exercises, product withdrawals, and recalls.
Operations and Training
- Inspect receiving, storage, stock rotation, product condition, supplier status, and batch traceability.
- Verify cleaning, disinfection, pest control, equipment, and facility standards.
- Deliver food-safety, hygiene, allergen-awareness, cleaning, sanitation, and induction training.
- Assist with food-safety incident investigations, evidence collection, root-cause analysis, and corrective action plans.
- Prepare reports, track open actions, analyse recurring issues, and participate in food-safety meetings.
Qualifications and Experience
- Recognised HACCP training or certification is required.
- Two to four years of relevant food-safety or hygiene experience is required, preferably in hospitality food operations.
- Experience with audits, training, corrective actions, and HACCP documentation is required.
- Knowledge of food microbiology, contamination, temperature control, allergens, sanitation, pest control, and traceability is required.
- Familiarity with Dubai and UAE food-safety requirements is required.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, email, and digital record-keeping systems is required.
- Good written and spoken English is required.
Preferred Qualifications
- A diploma or bachelor's degree in a relevant food-safety, environmental health, microbiology, or hospitality field is preferred.
- Additional food-safety, internal auditing, allergen-awareness training, or languages are advantageous.
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