QA/QC Lead

JOB DESCRIPTION

Wood is recruiting for a QA/QC Lead to join its UAE Business Unit focusing on driving the implementation of company quality strategies and campaigns for a major onshore brownfield project in Sharjah, UAE. This role is a full-time office-based role in Sharjah, UAE.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Remarkable people, trusted by clients to design and advance the world.

Wood is recruiting for a QA Lead to join its UAE Business Unit focusing on driving the implementation of company quality strategies and campaigns for a major onshore brownfield project in Sharjah, UAE.

This role is a full-time office-based role in Sharjah, UAE with travel requirement.

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The role

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced QA Lead to join our UAE Business Unit.

Our Clients and Projects

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

Wood is an integral part of operations in Iraq, and we are continuing to grow our footprint across the country. With a 90-year heritage, 10 major contracts and over 850 employees, we have the skills, expertise and asset knowledge to support clients to deliver energy security and decarbonisation ambitions.

Wood excels in supporting our clients to deliver complex upstream and midstream oil and gas projects in Iraq delivering maintenance, modifications and engineering solutions. We are committed to decarbonising existing assets, producing cleaner energy and developing a sustainable national workforce, ensuring the long-term growth of the region.

What we can offer

• Meaningful and interesting projects Delivered to high profile clients and complex projects in Iraq
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion ; we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice
• Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
• Commitment to continued professional development; development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests
• Global connections : join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession
• Medical Insurance: Ensures inpatient and outpatient medical care is available should you require treatment.
• Group Life and Personal Accident Insurance: The company provides Life Assurance cover
• The Employee Share Plan: Gives you the opportunity to purchase Wood shares and receive a match from the company
• Long Service Award: Wood values the commitment and loyalty of our people. Celebrating Long Service provides an opportunity for the business to demonstrate their appreciation of the hard work, dedication and many years' services of our employees at 5-year service milestones

Job Description:

Wood is looking to fill Lead QA/QC Engineer position, that is seconded to our Client, providing Quality direction and leadership to the team supporting Major Projects Procurement & Execution Planning.

The Procurement Quality Lead is responsible for driving the implementation of company quality strategies and campaigns across the delivery teams and EPC contractors, focusing on the effective deployment of the project management system, assurance processes and robust quality metrics. Ensuring projects 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 Project Manager taking day-to-day direction from the Project Manager and functional direction from the Quality Section Head. The role is accountable for providing Quality and inspection resources, systems and processes to support Procurement activities and Projects & Execution Planning activities.

Key Accountabilities:

• Promotion of both the WOOD & client 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 programme
• Plan and partake in internal project and vendors/ suppliers 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 close out
• 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 3rd 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 & punch list items
• Facilitate the recall, quarantine and replacement of defective products/materials
• Support the review of vendor mechanical catalogues & 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 close out

QUALIFICATIONS

What makes you remarkable?

At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world's most critical challenges.

Expected:

• Degree in Engineering (Mechanical background is desirable)
• Membership of CQI or country specific Industry body (desirable)
• Quality Auditor Qualification by recognised industry body (essential)
• Welding inspector certification preferably CSWIIP 3.1 or equivalent (desirable)
• NDE Level II qualification (desirable)

Minimum Experience:

• Minimum 15+ years Oil and Gas experience.
• Minimum 5 years in a QA role
• Previous Experience in a Lead or management position
• Exposure to Client Contracts desirably but not mandatory

Job-Specific Skills:

• Good planning and organisational 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
• Demonstrated ability to successfully interface with key stakeholders
• Ability to work within multi-cultural and environments

ABOUT US

Wood is a global leader in consulting, engineering and operations for the energy and materials sectors. With 33,000 people in around 50 countries, Wood supports clients across the full asset lifecycle, delivering safe, predictable outcomes while enabling resilient operations and a lower carbon future. Wood forms the Energy & Materials pillar of Sidara - a global partnership uniting leading multidisciplinary engineering, design, and project management companies.

Diversity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.