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Job description / Role
Wood in UAE is looking to hire an experienced Quality Manager to join the team on a major oil and gas project based in Dubai, UAE.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Job Objective
Controls, manages and monitors the application of Quality management measures and systems across contracts/projects/regions in accordance with Wood quality policy, quality standard and agreed objectives. Ensures the effective implementation and maintenance of quality management systems, complying with ISO 9001 requirements where applicable. Report to contract/project or regional management on the performance of quality within their designated business area and proposing solutions and continual improvement
Key Responsibilities and duties
- Management of all aspects of quality across assigned business areas, etc. including the supervision of
- assigned quality resources
- Promote the awareness of quality management principles (including quality and MS inductions) and
- provide advice and guidance to peers and colleagues
- Effective quality planning to ensure quality budgets are established, the function is resourced and defined quality deliverables are produced in line with agreed timeframes.
- Resourcing of quality professionals with the appropriate quality experience and competencies.
- Ensuring direct reports are assessed as being competent for their allocated roles and coaches, mentors and supports the ongoing development of these resources.
- Understands and identifies emerging stakeholder requirements and establishes plans to address these.
- Ensures requirements of the Wood quality policy, quality standard and agreed objectives are communicated and complied with across the Business unit/grouping.
- Implementation of quality management system requirements, ensuring compliance with client requirements and/or ISO 9001 requirements.
- Provide support to the generation of proposals and tenders in relation to quality elements.
- Quality representative and interface with top management on all quality related matters.
- Engages client quality representatives on a regular basis and acts expediently on both positive and negative client feedback.
- Oversight, governance and implementation of all applicable quality related tools and applications.
- Ensures that sufficient quality processes are deployed to manage product and service delivery.
- Management of audit and assurance programmes for their designated business area
- Effective supply chain quality management is implemented including vendor capability assessments, performance monitoring and failure investigations
- Management, reporting and analysis of data arising from non-conformance, corrective actions and other key quality indicators.
- Manages quality management system reviews and their outputs.
- Works across functions to identify continuous improvement and sharing of good practice
- Undertakes investigations of quality related failures
- Actively participates in the wider quality network both offering and taking on good practices.
Requirements
Qualifications:
- Degree in quality management or related discipline (essential)
- Lead Auditor qualification by recognised industry body (essential)
- Membership of CQI / ASQ or country specific (desirable)
- Formal training in recognised root cause analysis techniques (essential)
Knowledge, skills and experience:
- Minimum 20 years with at least 15 years in relevant experience (Preferably in the associated industry)
- Detailed engineering and design services experience is mandatory
- Saudi Aramco Standards familiarity is a must
- Comprehensive understanding of ISO 9001, ISO 19011 and Wood auditing protocols
- Proficient in the analysis of processes and data
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
- High level of communication skills in both written and spoken format
- Proficient in the use of continual improvement tools and techniques
Personal attributes:
- Passion for quality management
- Excellent planner and organiser
- Analytical, problem solver and systematic thinker
- Team worker
- Excellent inter-personal skills
- Integrity and trustworthy
- Persistent and inquisitive in the pursuit in information and facts
- Empowers others to make decision within established parameters
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.