QA/QC Lead

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.

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.

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 yearsu2019 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 and 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 and execution planning activities.

Key accountabilities

Promotion of both the Wood and client core values

Develop, maintain and 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 suppliersu2019 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/suppliersu2019 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 and punch list items

Facilitate the recall, quarantine and replacement of defective products/materials

Support the review of vendor mechanical catalogues and 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

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 worldu2019s 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, problem 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 environments

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.