Catering Manager

CATERING MANAGER – OIL & GAS PROJECTS Company: NSH Saudi Arabia Location: Saudi Arabia Job Purpose: Responsible for managing large-scale catering and food service operations for oil & gas construction projects, ensuring efficient catering services, food safety, hygiene, manpower management, and client satisfaction. Key Responsibilities: • Manage centralized catering operations for 10,000+ manpower across large oil & gas/construction projects. • Plan and supervise daily food production, meal services, menus, kitchen operations, and catering logistics. • Lead and manage a large catering team, including chefs, kitchen staff, supervisors, service staff, and support personnel. • Ensure compliance with food safety, hygiene, HACCP, HSE, and company/client standards. • Control food cost, inventory, procurement, wastage, and consumption. • Coordinate with project management, client representatives, procurement, camp management, and suppliers. • Monitor catering facilities, kitchens, dining halls, equipment, and accommodation/camp services. • Ensure timely mobilization and smooth catering operations during project start-up and manpower ramp-up. • Handle client inspections, audits, complaints, corrective actions, and service quality. • Prepare operational reports, manpower plans, budgets, and catering performance reports. Requirements: • Bachelor’s Degree/Diploma in Hotel Management, Catering, Hospitality, or related field. • 15+ years of catering/hospitality experience, with significant experience in large-scale operations. • Mandatory experience managing catering operations for 10,000+ manpower. • Strong experience in Oil & Gas / EPC / Construction Projects, preferably in remote camps. • Proven experience in large workforce/project catering, preferably in the GCC/Middle East. • Strong knowledge of HACCP, food safety, hygiene, HSE, and catering quality standards. • Excellent leadership, manpower planning, cost control, vendor management, and client coordination skills. • Experience handling large-scale project mobilization and camp catering operations. Show more Show less

Bachelor’s Degree/Diploma in Hotel Management, Catering, Hospitality, or related field. 15+ years of catering/hospitality experience, with significant experience in large-scale operations. Mandatory experience managing catering operations for 10,000+ manpower. Strong experience in Oil & Gas / EPC / Construction Projects, preferably in remote camps. Proven experience in large workforce/project catering, preferably in the GCC/Middle East. Strong knowledge of HACCP, food safety, hygiene, HSE, and catering quality standards. Excellent leadership, manpower planning, cost control, vendor management, and client coordination skills. Experience handling large-scale project mobilization and camp catering operations.

Manage centralized catering operations for 10,000+ manpower across large oil & gas/construction projects. Plan and supervise daily food production, meal services, menus, kitchen operations, and catering logistics. Lead and manage a large catering team, including chefs, kitchen staff, supervisors, service staff, and support personnel. Ensure compliance with food safety, hygiene, HACCP, HSE, and company/client standards. Control food cost, inventory, procurement, wastage, and consumption. Coordinate with project management, client representatives, procurement, camp management, and suppliers. Monitor catering facilities, kitchens, dining halls, equipment, and accommodation/camp services. Ensure timely mobilization and smooth catering operations during project start-up and manpower ramp-up. Handle client inspections, audits, complaints, corrective actions, and service quality. Prepare operational reports, manpower plans, budgets, and catering performance reports.