Lead Quality Engineer

Job Summary

Wood is currently looking for a Lead QA/QC Engineer to strengthen our team.  This is a Home Office position based in Dubai, but it may involve occasional visits to the Client offices and/or site in Iraq.

The Lead Quality Engineer is responsible for driving the projects to deliver a quality service that achieves the requirements of Operations and complies with the relevant international/national codes and standards.

This position reports directly to the Quality Discipline Manager taking day-to-day. The role is accountable for providing Quality and inspection resources, systems, and processes to support Procurement activities and Projects & Execution Planning activities.

• Promotion of both the WOOD & Company Core values.
• Develop, maintain & 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 risk-based audit programs.
• Plan and participate in External/internal projects and vendors/ suppliers audits.
• Conduct site quality leadership surveillance visits, as required.
• Provide input to contract quality risk registers.
• Act as a focal point for corrective actions by approving new actions and verifying action closure, if required.
• 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.
• Participation in the KOM & PIM on post orders.
• Review and approve necessary construction contractors, vendors, and suppliers’ documentation including ITPs and procedures, as required.
• Control all Quality documentation during & upon completion of the Project(ShareCat).
• 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 3rd party inspection agencies.
• Manage and raise vendors’ inspection requests and maintain inspection assignment register.
• 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 & punch list items.
• Review/respond to the technical queries raised by the Contractor/Supplier and their Sub-Contractor/Sub-Suppliers on the Quality front.
• Daily/weekly/monthly coordination with the Project management team/Company/ Contractor/Supplier and their Sub-Contractor/Sub-Suppliers on the Quality front.
• Facilitate the recall, quarantine, and replacement of defective products/materials.
• Support the review of vendor mechanical catalogs & manufacturing records books as required.
• Ensure upload of inspection reports and releases to document management system.
• Regular reporting of inspection status.
• Review and approve 3rd party inspection invoices.
• Liaise with the Client Quality Representative as appropriate.
• Ensure the closure of inspection requirements for project closeout.

Skills / Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering (Mechanical background is desirable)
• Welding inspector certification preferably CSWIIP 3.1/3.2 or equivalent (desirable)
• NDE Level II qualification (desirable)
• Painting Inspector certification – NACE Level II or BGAS (desirable)

Minimum Experience

• Minimum 15+ years of Oil and Gas experience.
• Previous Experience in Procurement support activities in EPC/PMC projects.
• Middle East experience preferred.
• Exposure to Company Contracts desirably but not mandatory.

Job-Specific Skills

• Good planning and organizational skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office.
• High level of communication skills in both written and spoken format.
• Analytical, Problems Solving skills and Systematic thinking.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with good initiative and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work within multi-cultural workforces and environments.