Food Safety Officer

HealthCare Dynamics Gen. Trading Company W.L.L; Kuwait City; On-site; KWD 3,000 - 15,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the healthcare sector is seeking a Food Safety Auditor to ensure compliance with food safety regulations and internal standards. The role involves conducting audits, preparing reports, and collaborating with various teams to enhance quality assurance practices. Ideal candidates will have strong analytical skills and attention to detail, with a focus on improving supplier quality and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Ability to communicate confidently in English.
• Methodical and thorough approach to audits.

Responsibilities

• Conduct food safety audits following the audit plan and standards.
• Prepare reports and recommend actions based on audit findings.
• Monitor compliance with quality and regulatory requirements.

Skills

Attention to detail

Data analysis

Communication

Job description

Responsible for executing food safety audit programs and ensuring that audit plans are delivered as required by the business, supporting compliance with food safety regulations and Gastronomica requirements.

The below Key Performance Areas include but are not limited to:

• Professionally conduct food safety audits following the audit plan and Gastronomica standards.
• Use various audits and reporting tools to conduct audits effectively.
• Execute the audit plan and respond to additional audit requirements as directed by the line manager.
• Work with outsourced audit service provider/s to ensure all parties are consistent and aligned.
• Prepare reports and deal with inquiries to highlight risks and trends and recommend actions. Support the Audit Manager-Quality Assurance to ensure that audit tools are aligned to internal and regulatory requirements and make recommendations as needed.
• Maintain food safety audit standards, protocols, audit data, and store lists.
• Any other duties to support QA function as required by the Audit Manager-Quality Assurance.
• Conduct audits and follow up by coaching.
• Aid the development and implementation of Quality Assurance standards.
• Work with Supply Chain to improve Supplier quality issues.
• Assist in the training of employees, on quality and regulatory requirements.
• Work with external contractors for effective service delivery (e.g. pest control)
• Monitor compliance with quality and regulatory requirements.
• Ensures appropriate Risk Assessments are conducted and audited at regular intervals and that immediate or potential risks are escalated to Senior Management through an Incident Management Process. Recommend improvements to audit programs as required.
• Ensure effective follow-up on audit action plans is conducted. Provide recommendations for acceptance or refusal of all assigned suppliers.
• Evaluate new facility and equipment design, plans, and installations and recommend improvements from an auditor perspective, while keeping abreast of new findings and practices related to food safety and regulatory compliance of ingredients, finished foods, and potential contaminants. Recommend best practices to rectify observed processes during audits.
• Ability to communicate confidently in English Attention to detail, methodical and thorough approach to audit Able to collect and analyze data, evaluate information, and draw conclusions.