Lead QA/QC Engineer

Job description / Role

Responsibilities

- Promotion of both the Wood and client core values
- Develop, maintain, and implement project quality plans, quality strategies, and objectives
- Provide quality oversight of vendors and contractors, ensuring they are aware of their roles and responsibilities.
- Provide quality estimates for QA/QC project deliverables and inspection of procurement packages.
- Regular quality reporting as required
- Ensure the maintenance, documentation, and deployment of the project management system
- Ensure implementation of a risk-based audit program
- Plan and partake in internal project and vendor/supplier audits
- Conduct site quality leadership surveillance visits
- Provide input to contract quality risk registers
- Act as focal point for corrective actions by approving new actions and verifying action closure
- Facilitate root cause analysis of project nonconformities
- Capture client feedback and monitor resulting improvement actions
- Ensure the deployment of a robust criticality assessment process throughout projects
- Verify the inspection level of products/materials
- Quality input to project lessons learned
- Ensure the closure of quality requirements for project closeout
- Review and provide input into technical bid evaluations
- Review and approve necessary construction contractors, vendors, and suppliers' documentation including ITPs and procedures
- Conduct review of project technical queries and specification deviation requests
- Ensure adequate and competent inspection resources are available to the projects
- Establish contract inspection framework
- Assist with evaluation of materials suppliers, manufacturers, fabricators, and NDE providers
- Establish appropriate call-off arrangements with third-party inspection agencies
- Prepare inspection packages for inspectors
- Assign competent, qualified, and appropriately experienced inspectors to inspection assignments
- Coordinate vendors/suppliers' product/material inspection activities
- Provide support to coordinate fabrication activities
- Review inspection outputs and highlight areas of concern
- Report non-conformances identified by inspectors
- Liaise with discipline engineers regarding inspection queries, deficiencies, and punch list items
- Facilitate the recall, quarantine, and replacement of defective products/materials
- Support the review of vendor mechanical catalogs and manufacturing records books as required
- Ensure upload of inspection reports and releases to the document management system
- Regular reporting of inspection status
- Review and approve third-party inspection invoices
- Liaise with the client quality representative as appropriate
- Ensure the closure of inspection requirements for project closeout

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Degree in engineering (mechanical background is desirable)
- Membership of CQI or country-specific industry body (desirable)
- Quality auditor qualification by recognized industry body (essential)
- Welding inspector certification preferably CSWIIP 3.1 or equivalent (desirable)
- NDE Level II qualification (desirable)

Minimum Experience:
- Minimum 18+ years oil and gas experience.
- Minimum 10 years in a QA role
- Previous experience in a lead or management position
- Exposure to client contracts desirably

Job-Specific Skills:
- Good planning and organizational skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
- High level of communication skills in both written and spoken format
- Analytical, problem-solving skills and systematic thinking
- Demonstrated ability to work independently with good initiative and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrated ability to successfully interface with key stakeholders
- Ability to work within multi-cultural environments

About the Company

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people.