Sr. Manager QHSE - South Region

ICS Foods & Hospitality Services; Chennai District; On-site; INR 500,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

ICS Foods & Hospitality Services is seeking a QHSE professional to implement hygiene, safety and environmental policies in a commercial kitchen setting in Chennai. Knowledge of FSSAI guidelines and QHSE legal compliances is essential.

The role requires RCA & CAPA reporting, HACCP principles, incident investigations and liaison with Food Department and FSSAI Officers. Proficiency with Word, Excel and PowerPoint is required.

Qualifications

• Must implement hygiene, safety and environmental policies and procedures.
• Knowledge of FSSAI guidelines and QHSE compliance requirements.
• Familiarity with safe work practices, PPE, manual lifting and slip, trip & fall risks.
• Awareness of PRPs, OPRPs, GHP and GMP and licensing procedures for kitchens.
• Proficient in corrective actions (RCA/CAPA) and food traceability procedures.
• Experience in incident investigation and food recall procedures (mock drills).
• Knowledge of HACCP concepts and CCP, CP and HACCP decision trees.
• Ability to liaise with Food Department and FSSAI officers.
• Good documentation skills and knowledge of audits and checklists.
• Proficiency with MS Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Responsibilities

• Implement and monitor all hygiene, safety and environmental policies in the kitchen.
• Ensure compliance with FSSAI guidelines and QHSE legal requirements.
• Apply safe work practices, PPE usage and hazard controls in daily operations.
• Maintain awareness of PRPs, OPRPs, GHP & GMP for food safety.
• Take corrective actions for any food incident; manage traceability and recalls as required.
• Prepare RCA and CAPA reports; participate in audits and closure of action items.
• Oversee license application procedures with FSSAI where needed.
• Maintain CP & CCP references and apply HACCP decision trees.
• Support HACCP principles and early hazard prevention measures.
• Coordinate with multiple functions for process implementation and improvements.
• Liaise with Food Department and Food Safety Officers as required.
• Maintain good relationships and communication with teams; strong documentation discipline.
• Utilize Word, Excel and PowerPoint for reporting and presentations.

Skills

FSSAI guidelines knowledge

QHSE legal compliances

Safe work practices

PPE and manual handling awareness

PRPs/OPRPs awareness

GHP & GMP awareness

HACCP principles awareness

RCA & CAPA reporting

Food safety incident handling

Food safety audits & checklists

Fire safety knowledge

Vendor audits awareness

Record keeping for food disposal

Team coordination across functions

Communication with Food Department & F

Computers (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Education

B.Tech in Food Technology

M.Tech in Food Technology

Tools

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Able to Implement all Hygiene, safety and environmental Policies and procedures.
• Knowledge of FSSAI guidelines. QHSE Legal Compliances.
• Knowledge of Safe Work Practices, PPE, Manual Lifting, Slip trip and Fall,
• Awareness of PRPs, OPRPs, GHP & GMP. Candidate is aware of food safety compliances required for commercial kitchen.
• Corrective actions need to be taken in case of food incident. awareness about food traceability and food recall or food recall mock procedure.
• Has worked and prepared the RCA & CAPA Report
• Has worked and aware of FSSAI license application procedure.
• Must aware about CP & CCP. HACCP decision tree.
• Aware about the preliminary steps & principles of HACCP
• control measures to use to prevent all the types of hazards in the food.
• Knowledge about incident/ accident/ Near Miss/ Unsafe Act/ Unsafe Action/ First aid process.
• QHSE audit procedure and checklists.
• Different type of fire class & fire extinguishers used in different class of fire, Assembly Area, etc.
• Vendor Audits Checklists and Procedure awareness.
• Food and Oil Disposal and segregation record maintenance Procedure.
• Team Player, Coordinate with multiple functions for Process Implementations.
• Liasoning with Food Department and Food Safety Officers.
• Good Relationship and communication skills.
• Knowledge of Computers specially Word, Excel and Power point is must.

Preferred candidate profile

B- Tech in Food Technology or M-Tech in Food Technology