Hygiene Supervisor

What you'll be doing:

• Support the Executive Chef in implementing and maintaining food safety, hygiene, and sanitation policies and procedures.

• Monitor food handling, preparation, cooking, cooling, storage, display, and service practices to ensure compliance with established standards.

• Conduct daily hygiene inspections of kitchens, production and preparation areas, storage rooms, bars, buffets, service counters, receiving areas, and related operational locations.

• Check refrigerators, freezers, chillers, food storage areas, preparation surfaces, utensils, equipment, and cleaning facilities for cleanliness and safe operating conditions.

• Monitor food and equipment temperatures, food labelling, date marking, stock rotation, segregation of raw and cooked food, and prevention of cross-contamination.

• Verify employee compliance with personal hygiene, handwashing, grooming, uniform, and protective equipment requirements.

• Identify and document hygiene gaps, unsafe practices, expired products, pest-related concerns, equipment issues, and other non-compliance.

• Report critical food safety or hygiene risks immediately to the Executive Chef and relevant operational management.

• Assist in preparing corrective and preventive action plans and follow up with responsible parties until actions are completed and verified.

• Maintain a tracker of hygiene findings, responsible persons, agreed actions, target dates, and closure status.

• Review food safety records completed by kitchen and operational persons-in-charge, including temperature logs, cleaning schedules, and receiving records.

• Prepare and compile hygiene inspection reports, audit findings, non-compliance records, corrective action updates, and monthly hygiene summaries.

• Support the monitoring and reporting of food safety Key Performance Indicators.

• Conduct hygiene briefings and support classroom and on-the-job food safety training for culinary, service, stewarding, purchasing, stores, logistics, and other relevant employees.

• Maintain accurate inspection, training, meeting, incident, and corrective action records for audit and future reference.

• Support internal and external food safety audits and prepare relevant records, checklists, certificates, and supporting documentation.

• Assist the Executive Chef and management during visits or inspections by government authorities, customers, auditors, or other regulatory bodies.

• Conduct spot checks at receiving areas to monitor food hygiene, product condition, packaging, delivery temperatures, and supplier product quality.

• Support supplier hygiene assessments and site visits when required and report concerns to the Executive Chef, Purchasing, Stores, or Logistics.

• Coordinate with relevant teams on cleaning, sanitation, waste management, pest control, equipment maintenance, and related hygiene matters.

• Attend relevant culinary, hygiene, food safety, and operational meetings as required.

• Support hygiene inspections for events, outside catering activities, temporary setups, and peak operational periods.

• Perform other food safety and hygiene-related duties assigned by the Executive Chef or management.