Quality Assurance Engineer - Chemicals

Job description / Role

About the Company:

ADNOC is one of the world's leading energy producers and a primary catalyst for the growth and diversification of the United Arab Emirates. Our diverse family of more than 50,000 employees is made up of over 100 different nationalities. People from different backgrounds, with unique perspectives and wide-ranging skillsets, share a collective responsibility: to enable and accelerate progress, both here in the UAE and across the globe. Here at ADNOC, we go beyond business as usual. We do things differently, challenge convention, and embrace new ways of thinking. This is what defines and differentiates us. By working together every day, we're bringing energy to life.

About the Job:

Perform quality assurance verifications and reviews across the company's assets and functions and provide independent assurance to top management that appropriate standards and protocols related to quality and effectiveness of chemicals are in place and the implementation throughout the chemical management lifecycles are in compliance with relevant codes, standards, and the company's procedures.

Key Accountabilities:
- Conduct assurance audits and spot checks related to chemicals quality assurance, analyze findings, prepare reports, and maintain records for areas/activities within the scope of responsibility and ensure timely investigation of matters raised through the program. Maintain confidentiality and recommend corrective action.
- Review in coordination with Operations, Integrity Management, Drilling Technical Support, Technical Centers, as well as line stakeholders the quality management programs and systems to identify inefficiencies, potential weaknesses, and risks related to chemicals.
- Conduct laboratory audits. Track audit action items and ensure that audit recommendations have been completed and closed out in coordination with concerned functions/assets.
- Use the developed set of standards and measurement tools to evaluate chemicals quality and effectiveness.
- Conduct verifications on third-party inspection and related matters. Ensure third-party inspection is conducted appropriately as assigned.
- Participate in investigations on observed failures, field complaints, and nonconformances. Collect and analyze data to determine the cause of a failure. Check for the nature of failure and provide recommendations to prevent future occurrences to improve the performance of chemicals.
- Maintain awareness of compliance issues related to areas of responsibility across the organization.
- Extract and analyze data related to chemicals quality and performance from existing computerized management systems.

Technical/Treatment Supervision:
- Review inspection, calibration, and maintenance plans/reports for chemical injection/treatment packages and verify its compliance with the latest company procedures, codes, and standards.

Supervision:
- Train and develop the assigned staff on relevant skills to enable them to become proficient on the job and deliver the respective section objectives.

Policies, Systems, Processes & Procedures:
- Implement approved Department/Section policies, processes, systems, standards, and procedures to support the execution of the Department/Section's work programs in line with Company and International standards.
- Comply with all applicable legislation and legal regulations.

Performance Management:
- Contribute to the achievement of the approved Performance Objectives for the Department/Section in line with the Company Performance framework.

Innovation and Continuous Improvement:
- Design and implement new tools and techniques to improve the quality and efficiency of operational processes.
- Identify improvements in internal processes against best practices in pursuit of greater efficiency to define intelligent solutions for issues confronting the function.

Health, Safety, Environment (HSE) and Sustainability:
- Comply with the ADNOC Onshore ADNOC HSE procedure requirements.
- Report all incidents and occupational illnesses to the line supervisor.
- If aware of any unsafe practice or condition, or if in any doubt about the safety of any situation, immediately consult their Line supervisor.
- Carry out the emergency responsibilities in line with the respective roles as per the emergency organization.Reports:
- Provide inputs to prepare Section MIS and progress reports for Company Management.

- Bachelor's degree in an Engineering discipline.
- 6 years of experience on chemicals types used in the oil and gas industry, their applications, and QA/QC of Production chemicals, Mud, Cement, and lab chemicals.
- Professional Certifications (Preferable): ISO 9001 lead auditor.

About the Company

We are one of the world's leading energy producers, and a primary catalyst for Abu Dhabi’s growth and diversification.

We operate across the entire hydrocarbon value chain, through a network of fully-integrated businesses, with interests that range from exploration, production, storage, refining and distribution, to the development of a wide-range of petrochemical products.

Since 1971, we have created thousands of jobs, driven the growth of a diverse knowledge-based economy, and played a key role in Abu Dhabi’s global emergence.

Today, we continue to look for new and innovative ways to maximize the value of our resources, pioneering those approaches and technologies that will ensure we are able to meet the demands of an ever-changing energy market, and continue to have a positive impact on the Abu Dhabi economy for generations to come.