Quality Associate - Fresh Food Inspection
Posted date [2026-08-29]
(ID: 50387)
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Talabat is the MENA region’s leading on-demand delivery platform, headquartered in Dubai and operating across eight markets. We leverage a tech-driven flywheel model to connect millions of users with food, groceries, and essential services. By bridging the gap between people and local businesses, we continue to scale our ecosystem and simplify everyday life through innovation. |
Job Description and Requirements
Quality Associate - Fresh Food InspectionJob Snapshot
Role: Quality Associate - Fresh Food Inspection
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Industry: Food and Beverages
Function: Food Safety and Inspection
Experience: Experience in quality assurance, fresh produce, meat inspection, or food retail operations preferred
Job Type: Full-time
Position Overview
Quality Associate - Fresh Food Inspection in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is a Food and Beverages opportunity focused on fresh produce quality, meat inspection, food safety, HACCP compliance, cold chain monitoring, supplier quality, and retail operations. talabat is hiring a quality-focused professional to inspect fresh products across stores, warehouses, dark stores, and supplier locations while ensuring that food safety requirements and internal quality specifications are consistently maintained.
Job Details
Country: United Arab Emirates
City: Dubai
Industry: Food and Beverages
Function: Food Safety and Inspection
Salary: 6000-9000
Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please
confirm the final offer with the employer.
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality: Any
Job Type: Full-time
Role Context
The Quality Associate supports the safety, freshness, and consistency of fruits, vegetables, meat, and other fresh products moving through talabat\'s grocery and retail operations. The role requires frequent site inspections and close coordination with stores, distribution locations, operations teams, and suppliers.
By detecting quality problems early and supporting corrective action, the associate helps reduce product rejection risk, prevent food safety incidents, protect customer experience, and maintain reliable fresh-food standards across the supply chain.
Key Responsibilities
* Conduct routine inspections of fruits, vegetables, meat, and other fresh products across stores, warehouses, distribution centers, dark stores, and supplier sites.
* Verify that incoming and stored products meet company specifications and applicable food safety requirements.
* Assess freshness, appearance, color, texture, ripeness, packaging condition, temperature, and remaining shelf life.
* Perform product sampling using approved quality procedures, inspection standards, and checklists.
* Monitor storage conditions and ensure fresh products are handled according to required hygiene practices.
* Verify cold chain conditions throughout applicable storage, receiving, and handling processes.
* Identify defects, contamination risks, damaged products, non-conformities, and other deviations from quality standards.
* Record inspection findings clearly and escalate serious quality issues when necessary.
* Coordinate with store teams, suppliers, and operations colleagues to implement corrective actions.
* Support preventive measures that reduce repeat quality failures and improve product consistency.
* Assist with product rejection decisions when items fail to meet required safety or quality criteria.
* Follow escalation procedures for significant food safety or supplier-related concerns.
* Maintain accurate inspection records, quality reports, checklists, and supporting documentation.
* Contribute to supplier performance evaluations using inspection findings and recurring quality trends.
* Support initiatives designed to improve supplier quality and fresh-product standards.
* Ensure operational practices align with HACCP requirements and internal food safety protocols.
* Monitor adherence to GMP and other applicable food handling requirements.
* Support investigations into customer complaints involving product freshness, contamination, damage, or quality.
* Assist with root-cause reviews for quality incidents and recommend practical corrective actions.
* Build productive working relationships with store employees, suppliers, operational teams, and management.
* Travel independently between operational sites throughout Dubai as required.
Ideal Profile
Candidates should hold a bachelor\'s degree or diploma in Food Science, Agriculture, Food Technology, Quality Assurance, or another relevant discipline.
Previous experience in food quality assurance, fresh produce inspection, meat inspection, food retail, grocery operations, or a similar environment is preferred. Practical understanding of fruits and vegetables, meat handling, freshness indicators, product deterioration, and food safety risk is particularly important.
Knowledge of HACCP, GMP, cold chain management, hygiene controls, and general food safety standards is expected. The role requires strong attention to detail because subtle changes in temperature, packaging, appearance, texture, or shelf life can determine whether a product is acceptable.
Good reporting and communication skills are necessary for documenting findings and coordinating corrective action with operational teams and suppliers.
A valid UAE Driving License is strictly required. Candidates must be willing and able to travel independently between stores, dark stores, warehouses, retail locations, and supplier sites as part of routine inspection activity.
Skills Set
* Fresh food quality inspection
* Food safety
* HACCP
* GMP
* Fresh produce inspection
* Meat inspection
* Fruits and vegetables quality
* Product freshness assessment
* Food quality assurance
* Quality control
* Cold chain monitoring
* Temperature control
* Shelf life assessment
* Product sampling
* Quality checklists
* Supplier quality
* Supplier performance evaluation
* Food retail operations
* Grocery quality control
* Product rejection procedures
* Non-conformity management
* Corrective actions
* Preventive actions
* Hygiene monitoring
* Food handling standards
* Packaging inspection
* Contamination risk identification
* Customer complaint investigation
* Quality incident investigation
* Quality documentation
* Inspection reporting
* Operational site audits
* UAE Driving License
Why Join Us
Fresh food quality has a direct impact on customer trust, operational efficiency, waste reduction, and regulatory compliance. This position provides hands-on exposure to quality management across multiple points in the grocery supply chain, including suppliers, warehouses, stores, and dark-store operations.
At talabat, the role offers practical experience in food safety, supplier quality, cold chain monitoring, fresh produce standards, and corrective action management within a fast-moving digital commerce environment. Strong performance can support future progression into food safety, quality assurance, supplier quality, grocery operations, or broader quality management roles.
About the Company
talabat is a leading online food, grocery, and local delivery platform in the Middle East and part of the Delivery Hero Group. The company connects customers with restaurants, grocery providers, retailers, and other partners through a technology-driven marketplace supported by regional operations, logistics, commercial, and quality teams.
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality: Any
Job Type: Full-time
Role Context
The Quality Associate supports the safety, freshness, and consistency of fruits, vegetables, meat, and other fresh products moving through talabat\'s grocery and retail operations. The role requires frequent site inspections and close coordination with stores, distribution locations, operations teams, and suppliers.
By detecting quality problems early and supporting corrective action, the associate helps reduce product rejection risk, prevent food safety incidents, protect customer experience, and maintain reliable fresh-food standards across the supply chain.
Key Responsibilities
* Conduct routine inspections of fruits, vegetables, meat, and other fresh products across stores, warehouses, distribution centers, dark stores, and supplier sites.
* Verify that incoming and stored products meet company specifications and applicable food safety requirements.
* Assess freshness, appearance, color, texture, ripeness, packaging condition, temperature, and remaining shelf life.
* Perform product sampling using approved quality procedures, inspection standards, and checklists.
* Monitor storage conditions and ensure fresh products are handled according to required hygiene practices.
* Verify cold chain conditions throughout applicable storage, receiving, and handling processes.
* Identify defects, contamination risks, damaged products, non-conformities, and other deviations from quality standards.
* Record inspection findings clearly and escalate serious quality issues when necessary.
* Coordinate with store teams, suppliers, and operations colleagues to implement corrective actions.
* Support preventive measures that reduce repeat quality failures and improve product consistency.
* Assist with product rejection decisions when items fail to meet required safety or quality criteria.
* Follow escalation procedures for significant food safety or supplier-related concerns.
* Maintain accurate inspection records, quality reports, checklists, and supporting documentation.
* Contribute to supplier performance evaluations using inspection findings and recurring quality trends.
* Support initiatives designed to improve supplier quality and fresh-product standards.
* Ensure operational practices align with HACCP requirements and internal food safety protocols.
* Monitor adherence to GMP and other applicable food handling requirements.
* Support investigations into customer complaints involving product freshness, contamination, damage, or quality.
* Assist with root-cause reviews for quality incidents and recommend practical corrective actions.
* Build productive working relationships with store employees, suppliers, operational teams, and management.
* Travel independently between operational sites throughout Dubai as required.
Ideal Profile
Candidates should hold a bachelor\'s degree or diploma in Food Science, Agriculture, Food Technology, Quality Assurance, or another relevant discipline.
Previous experience in food quality assurance, fresh produce inspection, meat inspection, food retail, grocery operations, or a similar environment is preferred. Practical understanding of fruits and vegetables, meat handling, freshness indicators, product deterioration, and food safety risk is particularly important.
Knowledge of HACCP, GMP, cold chain management, hygiene controls, and general food safety standards is expected. The role requires strong attention to detail because subtle changes in temperature, packaging, appearance, texture, or shelf life can determine whether a product is acceptable.
Good reporting and communication skills are necessary for documenting findings and coordinating corrective action with operational teams and suppliers.
A valid UAE Driving License is strictly required. Candidates must be willing and able to travel independently between stores, dark stores, warehouses, retail locations, and supplier sites as part of routine inspection activity.
Skills Set
* Fresh food quality inspection
* Food safety
* HACCP
* GMP
* Fresh produce inspection
* Meat inspection
* Fruits and vegetables quality
* Product freshness assessment
* Food quality assurance
* Quality control
* Cold chain monitoring
* Temperature control
* Shelf life assessment
* Product sampling
* Quality checklists
* Supplier quality
* Supplier performance evaluation
* Food retail operations
* Grocery quality control
* Product rejection procedures
* Non-conformity management
* Corrective actions
* Preventive actions
* Hygiene monitoring
* Food handling standards
* Packaging inspection
* Contamination risk identification
* Customer complaint investigation
* Quality incident investigation
* Quality documentation
* Inspection reporting
* Operational site audits
* UAE Driving License
Why Join Us
Fresh food quality has a direct impact on customer trust, operational efficiency, waste reduction, and regulatory compliance. This position provides hands-on exposure to quality management across multiple points in the grocery supply chain, including suppliers, warehouses, stores, and dark-store operations.
At talabat, the role offers practical experience in food safety, supplier quality, cold chain monitoring, fresh produce standards, and corrective action management within a fast-moving digital commerce environment. Strong performance can support future progression into food safety, quality assurance, supplier quality, grocery operations, or broader quality management roles.
About the Company
talabat is a leading online food, grocery, and local delivery platform in the Middle East and part of the Delivery Hero Group. The company connects customers with restaurants, grocery providers, retailers, and other partners through a technology-driven marketplace supported by regional operations, logistics, commercial, and quality teams.
