Food Quality Manager

Buscotrabajo Santa fe; Dubai; On-site; AED 279,000 - 424,000; Full time

Job summary

Buscotrabajo Santa fe is seeking a Food Quality Manager to lead the organization’s quality assurance, food safety, and regulatory compliance efforts across production, packaging, storage, and distribution. The role requires strong leadership to advance HACCP, ISO 22000, GMP, and supplier quality while driving continuous improvement.

The candidate will establish product specifications, manage audits, monitor CCPs, perform CAPA, and collaborate with procurement, production, and R&D to ensure

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Food Science, Food Technology, or related field.
• Significant experience in food quality assurance, safety, and manufacturing.
• Strong knowledge of HACCP, GMP, ISO 22000 and QA principles.
• Experience with audits, CAPA, root cause analysis, and regulatory inspections.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage food quality assurance and safety programs.
• Develop and improve quality management systems and procedures.
• Oversee specification development, testing, and QC criteria.
• Monitor CCPs, sanitation, allergen controls, and process controls.
• Lead internal, supplier, and regulatory audits and CAPA.
• Prepare for inspections and close audit findings promptly.
• Support product releases, recalls, and traceability systems.

Skills

Quality management

Food safety

Auditing

CAPA

HACCP

GMP

ISO 22000

Regulatory compliance

Leadership

Cross-functional coordination

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in Food Science or related field

Tools

QMS software

ERP systems

Laboratory software

Job description

Role Description A Food Quality Manager is responsible for leading and managing food quality assurance, food safety, quality control, regulatory compliance, auditing, supplier quality, and continuous improvement activities across food production, processing, packaging, storage, and distribution operations. The role ensures that products consistently meet internal quality standards, customer specifications, food safety requirements, and applicable regulatory standards while promoting a strong culture of food safety and quality throughout the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the organization's food quality assurance and food safety programs.
• Develop, implement, maintain, and continuously improve food quality management systems.
• Establish product specifications, quality standards, inspection procedures, testing requirements, and quality-control criteria.
• Oversee quality-control activities from raw material receiving through production, packaging, storage, and distribution.
• Monitor raw materials, ingredients, packaging materials, work-in-progress, and finished products for compliance with approved specifications.
• Implement and maintain HACCP, GMP, ISO 22000, prerequisite programs, and other applicable food safety systems.
• Monitor critical control points (CCPs), food safety hazards, sanitation programs, allergen controls, temperature controls, and process-control measures.
• Lead routine quality inspections, product sampling, laboratory testing, process verification, and product evaluations.
• Review microbiological, chemical, physical, sensory, and other laboratory test results and take appropriate action when deviations are identified.
• Investigate customer complaints, product defects, food safety incidents, non-conformities, and quality deviations.
• Conduct root cause analysis and lead corrective and preventive action (CAPA) programs.
• Manage internal, supplier, customer, certification, and regulatory audits.
• Prepare for regulatory inspections and ensure timely closure of audit findings and non-conformities.
• Oversee product release, product hold, rejection, rework, withdrawal, and recall processes where applicable.
• Establish and maintain effective product traceability, batch control, recall, and withdrawal systems.
• Monitor supplier quality and conduct supplier evaluations, audits, approvals, and performance reviews.
• Work closely with procurement to ensure raw materials, ingredients, packaging, and suppliers meet quality and food safety requirements.
• Coordinate with production, warehouse, logistics, maintenance, R&D, procurement, and operations teams to resolve quality and food safety issues.
• Develop, review, and maintain quality procedures, work instructions, specifications, inspection forms, and food safety documentation.
• Maintain accurate records of inspections, testing, audits, non-conformities, corrective actions, complaints, and quality performance.
• Prepare quality reports, dashboards, KPIs, trend analyses, management reports, and performance reviews.
• Monitor quality and food safety trends and identify recurring issues, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Lead quality and food safety training programs for production, warehouse, logistics, and other employees.
• Promote employee awareness of food hygiene, sanitation, GMP, HACCP, allergen management, and food safety requirements.
• Support new product development, product trials, process validation, shelf-life studies, and product approval activities.
• Ensure effective sanitation, pest control, personal hygiene, waste management, environmental monitoring, and cleaning verification programs.
• Review and approve quality-related documentation, specifications, testing requirements, and supplier documentation where authorized.
• Support customer audits, certification audits, regulatory reviews, and quality-management assessments.
• Ensure food quality and safety processes comply with applicable laws, regulations, customer requirements, certification standards, and company policies.
• Manage and develop food quality, quality-control, food safety, and laboratory personnel.
• Establish quality objectives, departmental KPIs, performance targets, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Manage quality-related budgets, laboratory costs, testing programs, training requirements, and quality resources where applicable.
• Maintain current knowledge of food safety regulations, industry standards, emerging food safety risks, food technologies, and quality-management practices.
• Identify opportunities to reduce product defects, waste, complaints, contamination risks, and quality-related costs.
• Promote a strong organizational culture focused on food safety, product quality, compliance, customer satisfaction, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of food safety performance, product consistency, supplier quality, regulatory compliance, operational efficiency, customer satisfaction, and overall quality-management effectiveness.

Professional, responsible, proactive, analytical, decisive, detail-oriented, and results-focused. Strong commitment to food safety, quality excellence, regulatory compliance, customer satisfaction, supplier performance, risk management, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

Qualifications Bachelor's or Master's degree in Food Science, Food Technology, Food Safety, Microbiology, Chemistry, or a related field. Significant experience in food quality assurance, food safety, quality control, food manufacturing, food processing, or a related industry is preferred. Strong knowledge of HACCP, GMP, ISO 22000, food safety management systems, quality assurance, and quality-control principles. Strong understanding of food hygiene, sanitation, allergen management, contamination prevention, traceability, product testing, and food safety risk management. Good knowledge of applicable food safety regulations, certification requirements, customer specifications, and industry standards. Strong experience with internal and external audits, supplier audits, regulatory inspections, CAPA, root cause analysis, and non-conformity management. Strong leadership, team-management, coaching, training, communication, and cross-functional coordination skills. Excellent analytical, investigative, problem-solving, decision-making, and risk-management abilities. Strong attention to detail and commitment to food safety, product quality, and regulatory compliance. Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Word, Power Point, and Outlook. Familiarity with Quality Management Systems (QMS), ERP systems, laboratory systems, traceability platforms, and food-production software is advantageous. Relevant certifications such as HACCP, ISO 22000, Internal Auditor, Lead Auditor, Food Safety, Quality Management, or equivalent qualifications are advantageous. Experience managing quality teams, laboratory personnel, suppliers, audits, food safety programs, and quality-improvement projects is preferred. Strong knowledge of quality documentation, specifications, laboratory testing, inspection procedures, food safety verification, and regulatory reporting. Ability to manage multiple audits, investigations, suppliers, quality incidents, corrective actions, projects, and compliance deadlines. Ability to work effectively with senior management, production teams, suppliers, auditors, regulators, customers, and cross-functional departments. Strong understanding of quality KPIs, trend analysis, risk assessment, continuous improvement, and quality-cost management. Professional, responsible, proactive, analytical, decisive, detail-oriented, and results-focused. Strong commitment to food safety, quality excellence, regulatory compliance, customer satisfaction, supplier performance, risk management, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.