Leading Hospitality & Food Service Company looking to hire a Food Safety Audit Executive!
We are looking for a passionate food safety professional with strong auditing skills and hands-on experience in Quick Service Restaurants to ensure the highest standards of food safety, hygiene, and compliance across our outlets.
Responsibilities
1. Internal Audits & Compliance
- Conduct routine, scheduled, and surprise food safety audits at outlets to assess compliance with food safety and hygiene standards.
- Verify adherence to HACCP, FSSAI, GMP, GHP, and company-specific food safety guidelines.
- Ensure proper storage, handling, preparation, and serving of food items as per approved SOPs.
- Check the effective implementation of pest control, sanitation, housekeeping, and personal hygiene practices.
- Monitor food safety practices across Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) outlets, ensuring compliance with operational and food safety requirements.
- Identify food safety risks and recommend practical corrective actions to outlet teams.
1. Documentation & Reporting
- Maintain detailed audit reports highlighting non-compliances, observations, risks, and areas for improvement.
- Ensure corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) are implemented effectively by outlet teams.
- Follow up on non-conformities and track closure within defined timelines.
- Escalate critical food safety violations and recurring non-compliances to relevant stakeholders.
- Maintain proper documentation and records related to audits, inspections, and compliance.
1. Training & Awareness
- Conduct food safety and hygiene training sessions for outlet teams and food handlers.
- Educate employees on personal hygiene, safe food handling, housekeeping chemical awareness and usage, and critical control points.
- Reinforce best practices related to personal hygiene, equipment cleaning and sanitization, food storage, temperature control, and safe food handling.
- Support outlet teams in improving food safety awareness and maintaining consistent compliance in a fast-paced QSR setting.
1. Complaint Investigation & Risk Mitigation
- Investigate food safety complaints, incidents, and customer-related concerns to identify root causes.
- Conduct outlet-level investigations and review relevant food handling, storage, and preparation practices.
- Ensure proper retention, identification, storage, and handling of food samples for validation and investigation purposes.
- Recommend corrective and preventive measures to minimize food safety risks and prevent recurrence.
- Coordinate with operations and outlet teams to implement effective risk-mitigation measures.
Key Skills & Competencies
- Strong knowledge of food safety regulations and standards, including FSSAI, HACCP, GMP, and GHP.
- Understanding of food safety requirements and operational practices within Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs).
- Experience in food safety auditing, outlet inspections, quality assurance, or compliance.
- Good auditing, documentation, reporting, and analytical skills.
- Strong attention to detail and problem-solving abilities.
- Effective communication, interpersonal, and training skills.
- Ability to work independently and conduct routine and surprise audits across multiple outlets.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced restaurant environment and coordinate with cross-functional teams.
Qualification & Experience
- Bachelor's/Master's degree in Food Technology, Microbiology, Food Science, or a related field.
- HACCP, FSSAI, or other relevant food safety certification is preferred.
- 6 months–2 years of experience in food safety audits, quality assurance, compliance, or food safety operations.
- Experience working with or auditing Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs), restaurants, food outlets, or food service operations will be an added advantage.
- Candidates with practical experience in outlet audits, food safety inspections, hygiene monitoring, and training of restaurant teams are preferred.
Pay: ₹25,000.00 - ₹35,000.00 per month
Work Location: In person
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