Overview
Quality & Food Safety Lead Jobs in Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon at PawPots
Title: Quality & Food Safety Lead
Company: PawPots
Location: Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon
About PawPots
PawPots is the first fresh pet food subscription service in the MENA region, on a mission to revolutionize pet health. We are a high-growth startup scaling operations across Lebanon and the UAE. We combine veterinary-backed nutrition, technology, and data-driven personalization to build the region’s leading fresh pet food and pet-health platform.
The Role
We are looking for a hands-on Quality & Food Safety Lead to act as PawPots’ internal owner for the implementation of our Quality, Food Safety & Operational Control roadmap. Working closely with Operations, cross-functional teams and external consultants, you will turn newly designed systems, controls and procedures into practical, sustainable day-to-day operations across Lebanon and the UAE.
This is a builder role: part quality leader, part implementation owner and very much an operator. The immediate focus is to strengthen governance, production and supplier controls, documentation and digital readiness; the role will then help lead PawPots into the next phase of GMP/PRP, HACCP and food-safety management-system implementation toward certification readiness.
What You Will Own
- Coordinate and drive the quality and operational-control implementation roadmap, with clear owners, deadlines, risk escalation and verified closure of actions.
- Standardize priority production workflows, SOPs, batch and production records, product/manufacturing specifications, recipe versioning and product-change controls.
- Build and verify daily quality controls across receiving, storage, preparation, cooking, cooling, packing, labelling, freezing/chilled storage, hygiene, sanitation, deviations and product hold/release.
- Strengthen supplier approval, raw-material and packaging specifications, receiving verification, non-conformance/CAPA and risk-based testing with Procurement and Operations.
- Support regulatory, labelling and claims controls and ensure product and material information is documented, approved, current and traceable.
- Work with Operations, IT/Odoo and external consultants to translate approved processes into practical digital requirements for master data, approvals, quality records, traceability and reporting.
- Train teams, build food-safety culture and progressively lead the next-stage GMP/PRP, HACCP, audit and certification-readiness roadmap as PawPots scales.
What We Are Looking For
- Degree in Food Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Food Science, or a related field.
- Around 4-7 years of relevant quality / food-safety experience in food manufacturing; fresh, chilled or ready-to-eat food experience is a strong plus.
- Strong practical knowledge of GMP/GHP, HACCP and food-safety management systems such as ISO 22000 / FSSC 22000 or equivalent.
- Hands-on experience implementing operational or quality systems – including SOPs, specifications, supplier/receiving controls, non-conformities, audits or certification projects.
- Strong project ownership, cross-functional communication, problem-solving and attention to detail – with the confidence to challenge unsafe or non-compliant practices and follow actions through to closure.
- Comfort working in a fast-moving startup environment, using data and digital systems, and travelling when necessary
Why PawPots?
You will help build the operating standards behind a regional food-tech company as it scales – owning the bridge between consultant-designed systems and what actually happens on the production floor every day.
