QA Manager

Job description / Role

*Implementing, coordinating and updating the company Quality System
*Manages the implementation, maintenance and effectiveness of the Company Quality Manual and Quality Assurance Procedures (QAP’s)
*Perform and report on internal quality audits of the company quality system, procedures, and processes
*Perform and report on external audits of the company suppliers and subcontractors
*Maintain, review and administer quality system procedures including nonconformance reports, customer feedback, corrective action and preventative action
*Administer Quality Awareness Training and other training as required
*Support the development of the Quality Plan, ITP and other Quality Plans as required by Clients’ Contract or Inquiry Documents
*Ensure the proper implementation and compliance of the Quality Control System within the facility and on project sites
*Manage the recruitment, training and development of the department staff to meet the company’s objectives.

Requirements

*BS Mechanical/Industrial Engineering, 10 years in an Industrial Manufacturing environment, with at least 5 years in a senior quality management level position; Masters Degree would be an advantage.
*With in-depth knowledge and exposure to quality systems and improvement process in a manufacturing environment, and other Quality Management Systems, e.g. ISO-9001:2000
*Solid analytical skills and the ability to quickly define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions and implement creative solutions
*Working knowledge on the technical specifications and components of HVAC products is an advantage
*Strong project management, leadership
*Superior verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills, presentation skills is desirable
*Proficient in word processing and spreadsheet compilations, exposure to Strong negotiation and supplier auditing experience skills
Other Supply Chain experience e.g. logistics inventory management, customer service, sales is desirable.
*Vendor quality management.
*Staff & competency development ensuring pool of leaders in Quality Management.
*Protecting the company's interest and adhering to organization's values/ethics.

About the Company

Yanbu Steel Company is a major, world class quality, steel fabrication company specializing in the design, fabrication and erection of steel storage tanks, pressure vessels, process columns and structural steel whilst also being flexible enough to cover other miscellaneous steel fabrication requirements of the oil, gas, petrochemical and water industries.

Yanbu Steel Company, set up in 1982 as a joint venture with PDM Inc of the USA but one hundred percent Saudi owned since 1994, has its main facilities, consisting of twenty thousand square meters of fully equipped covered workshops complimented by a skilled multinational workforce of over one thousand personnel, located in the Red Sea industrial city of Yanbu, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Yanbu Steel Company is now recognized as the premier Saudi Arabian tank contractor having successfully completed many large, technically difficult tank contracts covering all types and sizes of tanks including cryogenic, double wall, floating roof, and very large solid stainless steel tanks as well as the more conventional dome and cone roof tanks. Yanbu Steel Company is further recognized for its excellence in the design and fabrication of pressure vessels and process columns having successfully delivered large (in excess of three hundred tonnes) vessels as well as vessels and columns fabricated from exotic materials (inconel, stainless steels, clad plate etc.) and carbon steel. Yanbu Steel Company has also developed an extensive track record in structural steel having supplied (and erected) more than thirty thousand tonnes of structural steel and modularised steel weldments over the last ten years.