Lead QA / QC Engineer - JOBINT381

Position

Facilitate the development and effective implementation of Project Quality Management Systems by the Project Team in a manner that meets Corporate, location and contractual requirements.
Manage project service and product verification and inspection the project consistent with criticality assessments and contractual and regulatory obligations.
Manage project quality support functions including quality planning, preventive action, non-conformance control, corrective action, audits and project quality reporting and review.

Responsibilities

HSE Management

• Demonstrate behaviour and practices consistent with Managerial, co-worker and community duty of care obligations.
• Work with the Project HSE Advisor and the Project Management Team to ensure that all areas of the Project's operations conform to applicable regulatory and contractual HSE obligations.
  

  Quality Management

  Work with the Location Quality Manager and the Project Management Team to ensure;

• Project Management Plans and dependent systems and procedures are developed and implemented in compliance with the requirements of the company's Project Management Process (WPMP) and Enterprise Management System (EMS) consistent with specific location, regulatory and contractual requirements
• Project personnel are suitably trained in project plan requirements and to access and apply dependent systems, procedures and reference materials via the Project Web Site, EMS, WPMP and the Knowledge Communities as applicable.
• Effectiveness of quality planning to ensure that process controls and prerequisite product and service verification and inspection arrangements are established and resourced for the project consistent with criticality, statutory and contractual obligations.
• Effective planning and implementation of design control, verification, validation and review activities.
• Effective implementation and coordination of vendor assessment and inspection activities.
• Effective implementation and verification of construction inspection and testing activities.
• Effective implementation of non-conformance, corrective action, and preventive action management processes.
• Establishment of an effective risk based audit program.
• Effectiveness of Project Management Review Programs including collection analysis and reporting of project performance measures.
  

  Capability Enhancement

• Participate in the global quality learning community initiative to enable quality professionals to communicate with each other and receive updates on latest developments.
• Support in-house education, promotion and awareness programs relating to sound quality management practice and the company's quality strategies.
• Facilitate the implementation of existing and new company processes and capability enhancements across the Project Operations.
• Determine areas of potential improvement and, in consultation with the Location Quality Manager and Project Management Team, facilitate the implementation of improvements to address these areas and evaluate the outcomes of the improvements.
• Facilitate independent review/certification of Project Quality Management Systems in line with Corporate, legislative or customer requirements.
  

  Customer Relationships

• Ensure that the customer's quality management requirements and concerns and the needs of multiple stakeholders are being identified and managed by the Project Team effectively.
  

  Resources

• In conjunction with the Project Management Team and the Location Quality Manager recruit and allocate quality practitioners to project verification and inspection roles to ensure these activities are suitably resourced and
• Ensure that the new quality practitioners are effectively inducted in all aspects that relate to the Quality aspects of the Project.
  
  

  Performance Management - In conjunction with Project Management Team and the Location Quality Manager:

• Provide functional leadership for project quality personnel.
• Strengthen and coach project quality personnel to support development, management and administration of project quality management systems in response to project and customer expectations
  

Essential Skills

• Relevant tertiary qualifications and at least 12 years industry experience, including at least 5 years in Project Quality Management and or closely related fields of HSE and integrity management.
• Thorough understanding of the principles and practice of Quality Management and the implementation and improvement of management systems.
• Practical experience of plant and vendor inspection of all types of mechanical equipment typically required at oil & gas installations, both on-shore and off shore.
• Ability to develop, maintain, update in - house technical standards & specifications.
• Communication skills - verbal, written - to report standard and presentation skills.
• Demonstrable capabilities in planning and organising projects and activities to meet Project requirements e.g. quality planning and resourcing for projects to ensure they are suitably resourced with sufficient and capable quality management expertise.
• Experience in managing a team of quality practitioners.

Qualifications

• B.Sc.Eng. Degree.
• At least of 12 years of industry experience.
• At least 10 years experience in oil & gas / refinery / petrochemical industry experience.
• Minimum of 5 years as Lead QA/QC Engineer.
• Practical experience of plant and vendor inspection of all types of mechanical equipment. Fully conversant with NDE requirements and sour environments.
  

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